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Happy Birthday to our Founder Ava DuVernay, the filmmaker, storyteller and visionary who helped to reshape what independent cinema looks like. From her early days falling in love with the art of filmmaking to directing groundbreaking work that centers truth, justice and humanity, Ava has never stopped pushing the industry toward something better. She didn’t ask for a seat at the table; she built her own and then made sure the table had room for all of us. ARRAY exists because Ava believed independent voices deserved distribution, resources and community. Every film we release, artist we support and conversation we spark carries her vision forward. Today, we celebrate the director, the founder, the mentor and the friend who is Ava DuVernay. Thank you for showing us what’s possible when you lead with courage and conviction. Here’s to another year of storytelling that moves culture forward.

Spark your sense of play. “We’ve invited Love, Peace and Spades to come to the ARRAY Creative Campus in Historic Filipinotown and facilitate a day of games for us. All levels are welcome,” shared Mercedes Cooper, our VP of Public Programming, in an interview with the LA Sentinel. Join us TOMORROW, August 22, from 12- 4 PM at our Creative Campus for a day filled with games, community and connection. DETAILS + FREE TIX AT: EVENTS.ARRAYNOW.COM

MARK YOUR CALENDARS. On December 4, Ava DuVernay’s new documentary, 14TH premieres globally on Netflix following a theatrical run beginning November 27 in select U.S. and U.K. theaters. It all starts October 9, when the film closes out the New York Film Festival. A follow-up to 13TH, this new film turns to the 14th Amendment, written in the wreckage of the Civil War to close the door on the hierarchy of human worth. Instead, it became a permanent argument. More than 50 voices, historians, lawyers, scholars, politicians, sat down with DuVernay to ask the question this country still hasn't answered: who gets to belong? 14TH. In theaters November 27, on Netflix December 4. #ARRAY #14TH

Venus Williams changed the game. Ava DuVernay brought her story to the screen. VENUS VS. now streaming on Disney+.

The story of play is the story of all of us, from the places that shape where we call home to the ways embracing joy can become an act of activism. This idea fueled the launch of our summer storytelling series, ARRAY @ Play, curated to spark our sense of play through games and film. On July 25: Filmmaker Jessa Williams transported our screen to the shoreline for an incredible surfer's tale about the power of presence. We leaned into new ways of dreaming together through a collective world building game led by the artist Mims. Neighbors Skate Shop owners Cleon and Tre welcomed us into their neighborhood through a visual love letter. Change begins with the stories we share and the communities we choose to share with.

With the selection of “14th” selected as New York Film Festival’s 2026 Closing Night presentation, ARRAY Founder Ava DuVernay joins an esteemed group of filmmakers who have been honored with both opening and closing positions, including Akira Kurosawa, Clint Eastwood, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Zemeckis and Steve McQueen. Ava makes history as the first woman to do so in the festival’s 64-year run. #arraynow #14th #NYFF

Pull up for ARRAY @ Play this August! We've invited Love, Peace + Spades to host their signature Talk + Play session at our Creative Campus, where stories and strategy meet family traditions. DETAILS + FREE TIX AT: EVENTS.ARRAYNOW.COM ARRAY @ PLAY is a summer storytelling series to spark your sense of play through games and films as tools for connection and community-building.

THIS SATURDAY: Join ARRAY @ Play, a summer storytelling experience to spark your sense of play! Our day begins with a world building game where we'll move through a series of activities involving writing, drawing and discussion to collaboratively envision a future society. Next, we'll screen a duo of docs lensed by surfers and skateboarders of color. This film showcase will be followed by a cinema chat with the directors about ways that we reclaim space and shape the communities we call home. Change begins with the stories we share. We're centering games + movies as powerful tools for fostering belonging, connection and joy for a storytelling experience you won't want to miss. DETAILS + FREE TIX AT: EVENTS.ARRAYNOW.COM 12-3pm | Play: MAROONING BODIES | Led by artist Mims 3:30-5pm | Watch: MOVING MOUNTAINS | By Jessa Williams of INTRSXTN Surf with THE MOTHER TO MY STYLE | By Cleon + Tre of Neighbors Skate Shop

Ava DuVernay & Netflix Reteam For Constitutional Documentary ‘14th’: “This Film Asks What Kind Of Country Is Being Written Beneath Our Feet Now” Clearly revolving around the equal protection and citizenship-focused 14th amendment, which was ratified in 1868 in the turbulent era of Reconstruction and has been a contentious part of the American body politic ever since, the14th project from the Selma helmer has been in production discreetly for well over a year. --DEADLINE

Join ARRAY @ PLAY, a summer storytelling series to spark our sense of play through games and films as tools for strategy, connection and community-building. On July 25, we're bringing together a collaborative world-building game, MAROONING BODIES led by artist Mims, followed by a short film showcase featuring MOVING MOUNTAINS and THE MOTHER TO MY STYLE, two documentaries lensed by surfers and skateboarders of color. Change begins with the stories we share! Details + Free Tix at https://lnkd.in/gBqA76Fh.