Ava DuVernay

The White Tiger rides the surge in streamed south Asian stories

The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giants

Ashanti Omkar

20, Jan, 2021 @8:00 AM

Funny Boy review – Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality

Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to civil war

Cath Clarke

10, Dec, 2020 @3:00 PM

Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump

Ava DuVernay among those highlighting platform’s lack of action over abusive tweets

Aaron Walawalkar

03, Oct, 2020 @3:28 PM

Residue review – haunting drama on the dangers of gentrification

A visually striking and timely film from first-time writer-director Merawi Gerima sees a film-maker returning to an unrecognisable DC neighbourhood

Radheyan Simonpillai

17, Sep, 2020 @7:04 AM

John Lewis: Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey lead tributes to civil rights hero

Winfrey releases footage of recent interview in which congressman says: ‘I tried to do what was right, fair and just’

Jessica Glenza in New York

18, Jul, 2020 @8:22 PM

Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay team up for Netflix series on player's early life

Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay are teaming up on a scripted series on the former NFL quarterback’s teenage years

Guardian sport

29, Jun, 2020 @3:22 PM

Women Make Film review – an epic trip through cinema's undiscovered world

Mark Cousins’s 14-hour documentary gives a voice to film-makers excluded from the cultural conversation

Wendy Ide

16, May, 2020 @2:00 PM

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Film-maker and historian of the movies Mark Cousins’ 14-hour survey of amazing but overlooked auteurs is a marvel of passionate cinephilia

Peter Bradshaw

14, May, 2020 @7:00 AM

Netflix criticises 'frivolous' When They See Us lawsuit from disgraced ex-lawyer

Former Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein is suing Ava DuVernay and Netflix for painting her as a ‘racist, unethical villain’

Benjamin Lee

18, Mar, 2020 @6:58 PM

Stephen King says Oscars are 'rigged in favor of the white folks'

Novelist clarifies controversial comments about diversity, acknowledging that while in a perfect world ‘judgments of creative excellence should be blind’, we’re not there yet

Alison Flood

28, Jan, 2020 @2:07 PM