Age: 53
female
Ava Marie DuVernay (/ˌdjuːvərˈneɪ/; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directorial debut with I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay 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. For her work on Selma (2014), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the film went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her other film credits include the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary 13th (2016) and the Disney fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time (2018), the latter making her the first African-American woman to direct a film with a $100 million budget. In 2023, she directed the biographical film Origin based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). DuVernay's television credits include the OWN drama series Queen Sugar (2016) and two Netflix drama limited series: When They See Us (2019), based on the 1989 Central Park jogger case, and Colin in Black & White (2021), based on the teenage years of NFL player Colin Kaepernick. In 2017, DuVernay was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2020, she was elected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences board of governors as part of the directors branch. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ava DuVernay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Years after crash-landing on Earth, Eupherbia Triyss, a young alien princess from the mystical planet Eolea, has built a life in Lexington, Ohio. She has grown fond of humans and her boyfriend, Brett Palevich, also known as Cyber Knight. However, her peaceful existence is disrupted when an automated spacecraft arrives to take her back to Eolea, which is on the brink of war due to political factions and the underground Order of Aether seeking control over the planet's resources. As the rightful heir, Eupherbia grapples with her responsibilities while confronting the trauma of her mother's mysterious death and the pressure to restore peace. In Eolea, she encounters old allies and new enemies while discovering her extraordinary powers linked to her world’s life force. Torn between her love for Brett and her duty to her people, Eupherbia must navigate her path, reclaim her throne, and decide whether to embrace her fate or forge her way in the vast universe.
