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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, on YouTube.


 AVA DUVERNAY, JULIE DASH, AND EUZHAN PALCY DISCUSS “BROADENING THE APERTURE OF EXCELLENCE” IN FILMMAKING IN “ACADEMY DIALOGUES” SERIES FINALE

WHAT:
Part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, “Academy Dialogues: It Starts With Us” is a new series of virtual panels, with conversations about race, ethnicity, gender, history, opportunity, and the art of filmmaking.

The final episode in the series, “Academy Dialogues: Broadening the Aperture of Excellence,” features a conversation with Oscar®-nominated filmmaker, founder of ARRAY and Academy governor Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) and filmmakers Julie Dash (“Daughters of the Dust”) and Euzhan Palcy (“Sugar Cane Alley”) examining whether there is an objective form of measurement in the arts and how the Hollywood system can broaden its aperture to appreciate storytelling from the worldviews of different ethnic and racial communities.  

WHO:
Ava DuVernay, Academy governor, founder of ARRAY, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker (“Selma”)
Julie Dash, filmmaker (“Daughters of the Dust”)
Euzhan Palcy, filmmaker (“Sugar Cane Alley”)

WHEN/WHERE:
Available now on YouTube.
HIGHLIGHTS: 
“So many people always talk about 'Ava, you're the first this, first that,' and I never lose an opportunity to talk about the women who not only came before but who I had the opportunity to work beside.” – Ava DuVernay

“I never had dreams of working in Hollywood. I had dreams of being a storyteller. I had dreams of making films and experimenting with ways of telling a story, and that I have done.” – Julie Dash

“With my camera...I am trying to heal the wounds created by history.” – Euzhan Palcy

Closed captioning is available in both Spanish and English.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a global community of more than 10,000 of the most accomplished artists, filmmakers, and executives working in film. In addition to celebrating and recognizing excellence in filmmaking through the Oscars, the Academy supports a wide range of initiatives to promote the art and science of the movies, including public programming, educational outreach, and the upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, opening April 30, 2021.

For more information on this Academy Dialogue and others in the series, please click here.   

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