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Ava DuVernay’s Array Partners With Google to Create $500,000 Film Grant for Black Creatives The award-winning are production company will provide funds to an up-and-coming filmmaker. It can be said that Ava DuVernay is only doing what the Creator ordained her to do. After showing a sneak peek at her new CW show, Naomi, and speaking out in support of Naomi Osaka—DuVernay’s Array has announced a partnership with Google to create a new $500,000 feature film grant for rising creatives from h...

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images 3 Jun 2021 Trump bashing Hollywood director Ava DuVernay’s film focused advocacy group Array is teaming up with Google to create a $500,000 feature film grant for creatives who hail from what they call “underrepresented communities.” The endowment, which is known as The Array + Google Feature Film Grant, will allocate funds so that the recipient will be able to produce his or her first full-length feature, according to a report by Deadline. “Having start...

Grant money will be eligible for underrepresented creators to fund their first movies Brian Welk | June 2, 2021 @ 7:30 AM Getty Images Ava DuVernay’s Array and Google are partnering to award $500,000 in grant money to help an underrepresented artist or creator in making their debut feature film. The half a million dollar Array + Google Feature Film Grant is meant to build a more equitable and inclusive artistic community of diverse storytellers and hopes to amplify the work of women and peop...

Ava DuVernay hopes to smooth the path for the next woman or person of color with a $500,000 filmmaking grant offered in partnership with GoogleGOOG. The grant is designed to finance the recipient’s first feature-length film, and, in the process, help foster a diverse community of storytellers.

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Dee Tuck has heard all the excuses. “I want to hire more women, but I just dont know where they are.” Yep. “I want to hire more people of color, I just dont know anybody.” That too. Shes been working in tech for more than a decade and has often been the only Black female engineer on her team. She has reviewed company hiring practices and pointed out that “maybe youre weeding out a lot of people who cant code with eight...

Joan Smalls, who in 2013 was named among the highest paid in the modelling world, has teamed with industry and activism heavyweights to bring sweeping inclusion to fashion

Last week, Award-Winning Director Ava Duvernay launched Array Crew, a personnel database aimed at increasing representation for women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups ‘behind the camera’. Ava Duvernay joins NBC’s Joshua Johnson for a conversation about her new initiative and Hollywood’s inclusion problem.

#VoteforWomen: Check out this awards season ballot, where women own every category David Oliver, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT For advocacy organization Women in Film (WIF), that means pointing out the multitudes of women behind the camera who participated in awards-caliber films this year. The group created a #VoteforWomen ballot for the second year in a row, featuring more than 500 women worthy of accolades. The ballot shuts down the dated theory that theres not enough goo...

Last year’s TV season saw a rise in the number of women and people of color directing television shows, according to a new report by the Directors Guild of America. The percentage of the more than 4,300 episodes of television made by directors of color in the 2019-2020 season rose to 32% from

Ava DuVernay Launches ARRAY Crew, Promoting Below-the-Line Diversity Jazz Tangcay, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Producer and director Ava DuVernay has launched ARRAY Crew, a database for Hollywood’s below-the-line crew members. ARRAY Crew’s main focus is to elevate women, people of color and other underrepresented film and television professionals. “We’ve ideated, incubated and executed the idea of ARRAY Crew over two years with one mission in mind: to help productions hire qualifi...