Award-Winning Director Ava Duvernay launched Array Crew, a personnel database aimed at increasing representation for women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups ‘behind the camera’. Ava Duvernay joins NBC’s Joshua Johnson for a conversation about her new initiative and Hollywood’s inclusion problem.
Personnel database will give entertainment industry opportunity to show its actions can match its words, producer says.
“I have to create and be a part of the change that I want to see, and so, after I go through the period of being on every panel and being in every article about diversity, I stopped doing that a couple years ago, and I said, no more panels,” Ava DuVernay says of the impetus to create Array Crew, which launches online Thursday.
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her new database, Array Crew, and how it may help diversify who works on the sets of Hollywood productions.
