*Filmmaker Ava DuVernay went deep in her keynote address at South by Southwest. The Selma director spoke of “living in the moment” and “being grateful” for what she has to the audience at the annual festival in Austin, Texas.
Though Selma was nominated for a best picture Oscar, DuVernay didn’t allow that to twist her head; at one point referred t the Oscars as “just a room with a lot of nice people dressed up.”
The director, who is now working on two TV shows, made time to speak at SXSW; and told the audience she is working on a series for Oprah Winfrey’s network, OWN as well as a network series called For Justice – which she described as a procedural featuring a Justice Department civil rights investigator played by Anika Noni Rose.
DuVernay said she’d suffered a difficult week, but managed to turn it into something positive because she was prompted by a certain somebody to get into the habit of writing down five things she is grateful for each week.
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