Age: 53
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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.
The officer Shayera Thal was sent from the planet Thanagar to take care of the planet Earth creating a "normal" life by becoming Ray Palmer's laboratory assistant in the STAR Labs building in Midway City, although everything seems normal, she has recurring dreams with a man, although she doesn't know that man, she always sees him in different adventures in different parts of the story by her side. Thanagar has been in a constant war against the planet Rann, Thanagar's army is led by Onimar Synn along with his general Fel Andar who is the one who sent Shayera to Earth, Shayera has acted on Earth as the superheroine Hawkgirl thus inspiring a young man named Charley Parker who tries to help the city but is stopped by Shayera although she notices a familiar mark on that boy, so she realizes that he is a Thanagarian, Shayera informs Fel Andar of this but he sends some soldiers disguised as Rann warriors to finish off the boy and her for some reason, Hawkgirl defeats the warriors along with the boy but when they try to interrogate the "Rann Warriors", they are electrocuted by Fel Andar in the shadows and are taken away to a clandestine base where they will be as prisoners without understanding the situation until a blackout occurs in the base caused by Adam Strange.
