Independent filmmaker Ava DuVernay to show films at IU Cinema

Ava DuVernay, a Sundance Film Festival award-winning independent filmmaker, will visit IU Cinema, where she will show seven films and give a lecture.

Five of DuVernay’s films, including “My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip-Hop,” “This Is the Life,” “Venus vs.,” “Middle of Nowhere” and “I Will Follow,” will screen at IU Cinema and the Black Film Center/Archive in Wells Library Room 044.

Also, two African-American Film Festival Releasing Movements films, “Better Mus’ Come” and “Big Words,” will show as part of the series.

DuVernay is scheduled to attend the screenings of “Venus vs.,” “Middle of Nowhere” and “I Will Follow,” and will deliver a free Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture at 3 p.m. Sept. 20 at IU Cinema.

While tickets are not required for the screenings at the BFC/A or the lecture, screenings at the IU Cinema are free but ticketed. Students may pick up tickets at the IU Auditorium Box Office.

“Her artistic accomplishments and business acumen have invigorated the black independent cinema movement,” Michael Martin, director of IU’s Black Film Center/Archive, said in an IU press release. “We are thrilled to welcome her to campus in September.”

— Amanda Arnold