Director Ava DuVernay speaks with the CBC’s Eli Glasner about what compelled her to create her latest and perhaps most challenging film, Origin. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
When you sit down to interview Ava DuVernay, you quickly realize how she rose to the top of her profession in 12 short years.
Before DuVernay became an Oscar-nominated director with Selma, before her sci-fi adventure A Wrinkle in Time broke box office records for Black female directors, DuVernay was working as a publicist and dreaming of telling her own stories.
Sit down across from her and you notice the attention to detail as she clocks the
