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Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award.
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Rilke's Book of Hours
Love Poems to God
Anita Barrows - 1997-04-01 (first published in 1905)
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Experience Rainer Maria Rilke's powerful spirituality in Rilke's Book of Hours, a work of spontaneously received prayers that offers a vision of spiritual practice for the modern world. Discover a new kind of intimacy with the divine in a reciprocal relationship where God needs us as much as we need God. Through fresh translations by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, Rilke's Book of Hours captures the poet's spirit like never before.
Ava DuVernay
2020-04-20T16:28:00.000Z
@RealGDT I’ve been reading poetry too, G. Bite-sized but filling. Been reading a lot of my favorite - Robin Coste Lewis. And also Rilke’s Book of Hours. This one has brought me comfort through a lot of what’s been going on. It’s been my daily companion.      source
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Rachel Held Evans
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Directing Actors
Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television
Judith Weston - 1999-07-01 (first published in 1996)
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Learn the art of directing actors from an internationally-renowned coach with this insightful book. Discover how to create good performances, what actors want from a director, common mistakes directors make, effective script analysis and preparation, and more. Gain valuable insights into the important director/actor relationship and take your directing skills to the next level.
Ava DuVernay
2019-11-29T17:01:01.000Z
Couldn’t resist one more. Two books for directing that helped me so much until I found my own language are MAKING MOVIES by the great Sidney Lumet and DIRECTING ACTORS by my former teacher @JudithWeston.      source
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Making Movies
Sidney Lumet - 1996-03-19 (first published in 1995)
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Learn the secrets of the art, craft, and business of making movies from one of the most acclaimed directors in America. With 40 years of experience and movies like Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Verdict under his belt, this professional memoir and definitive guide is the perfect resource for anyone interested in the painstaking labor behind two hours of screen magic.
Ava DuVernay
2019-11-29T17:01:01.000Z
Couldn’t resist one more. Two books for directing that helped me so much until I found my own language are MAKING MOVIES by the great Sidney Lumet and DIRECTING ACTORS by my former teacher @JudithWeston.      source
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The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
Anthony Hinton - 2018-03-27
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This book tells the story of a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Despite his wrongful imprisonment, he finds hope and joy through the power of reading and is ultimately able to transform himself and those around him. With a foreword by a civil rights attorney, this powerful memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit in the face of injustice.
Ava DuVernay
2018-06-06T02:24:46.000Z
An extraordinarily book about an extraordinarily life. Anthony Ray Hinton’s story inspired many things within me. Mainly, the idea of radical forgiveness. Don’t know if I could forgive what he went through, but I loved reading about how he did. And trying to learn how for myself.      source
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Behold the Dreamers
A Novel
Imbolo Mbue - 2017-06-26 (first published in 2016)
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An immigrant family strives for a better life in America, when the father lands a job as a chauffeur for a wealthy executive. As they gain opportunities and hope for the future, they begin to uncover troubling secrets and must make an impossible choice when their world is rocked by a financial collapse.
Ava DuVernay
2017-06-26T14:40:19.000Z
Incredible book. #BeholdTheDreamers      source
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Oprah Winfrey