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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her new database, Array Crew, and how it may help diversify who works on the sets of Hollywood productions.
30 December 2020 Share with: Ava DuVernay and Peter Roth, a Warner Bros. Television chairman, are poised to launch Array Crew, a company aiming to diversify crews on Hollywood film sets using an advanced database. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, DuVernay said Array Crew will pressure companies to hire from a pool of candidates that includes more people of colour than current options do. “This is the time. We’re in the gap. And so our goal is to provide this tool so, “No, no, no, don’t, no, you’re not going back, we’re not gonna let you … keep moving,” she said.
To hear Peter Roth tell it, friends, including J.J. Abrams, had been insisting he needed to know Ava DuVernay long before their first meeting. So when the longtime Warner Bros. TV executive found himself across from the filmmaker at the Los Angeles offices of Oprah Winfrey’s cable network, OWN, to discuss collaborating on DuVernay’s Louisiana-set television drama “Queen Sugar,” the creative connection, as they say, was instant. “I’ve never had the experience of being so closely connected with someone who’s probably, just on paper, the polar opposite of me — not a woman, not B...