Ava DuVernay and Pat Mitchell | Skoll World Forum | #skollwf 2023

Ava DuVernay in conversation with Pat Mitchell at the Skoll World Forum 2023.

Ava DuVernay | Writer, Producer, Director and Distributor of Independent Film
Ava DuVernay is the first African American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award as a director in any feature category. Winner of multiple Emmy, BAFTA, NAACP and Peabody Awards, her feature film directorial work includes the “Selma,” “13th” and “A Wrinkle in Time,” which made her the highest-grossing Black woman director in American box office history. DuVernay is currently writing, directing and producing the narrative film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent.”

Pat Mitchell | Founder and President, Pat Mitchell Media; Skoll Foundation Board
Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders Forums and Co-Founder, Host, and Curator for TEDWomen

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[iammoxum]

I wish someone filmed me when she said Caste is being brought to film. I legit was overcome with emotion and excitement. This woman is a changemaking prophet and I'm so thankful for the work she's contributed in shining light on social issues that effect people of color, and the ways in which we must really reform our systems and institutions, if not even dismantle them <3

[aidahaliyahrasheed]

Thank you Ms. Ava DuVernay for your voice & light. You inspire so many, and I look forward to the day I get to meet and work with you. ♥

[ceciltagg]

Pat Mitchell does know about fashion wow grate dress

[alexismclaughlin]

I wished the interviewer stopped laughing into her mic, very distracting

[deebee]

Ava Duvernay is now claiming racism for the reason there's absolutely no interest in her flop Origin 😂🤣. She claims you are racist if you go see Oppenheimer 😂🤣