Ava DuVernay is a Californian born in Long Beach, California on 24 August 1972. DuVernay was inspired to follow her passion of art by her aunt Denise at the age of a small child. Her aunt, a night-shift nurse, allowed her to pursue art literature and the theatre in daylight. DuVernay was exposed to the movie of 1961 West Side Story by her aunt. DuVernay was instructed by her mom that the arts can serve to engage people. DuVernay learned to be socially aware from her mother. DuVernay lived in Compton during the majority of her childhood, but she spent every summer in the company of the extended family of her father in Lowndes County Alabama. The father of DuVernay's remembered watching the historic Civil Rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in adjacent Selma Alabama. The time she spent in Selma Alabama inspired her later to direct a movie about the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as well as his Civil Rights Movement. In the year 1990, DuVernay graduated from Saint Joseph High ...
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