Ava DuVernay is involved with film work.
Ava DuVernay . At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival , DuVernay won the Best Director Prize for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere , becoming the first African-American woman to win the award . For her work in Selma ( 2014 ) , DuVernay was the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award . In 2017 , she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her film 13th ( 2016 ) . Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb .