Trailer Watch: Ava DuVernay’s Selma

The much anticipated SELMA, directed by “windy” filmmaker Ava DuVernay will debut in selected theaters December 25.  SELMA chronicles three intense months in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King passionately fought for civil rights, culminating with the historic march through Alabama that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Windrider congratulates filmmaker and friend Ava DuVernaay, who captured the Best Director Award, Sundance 2012, for Middle of Nowhere, a film she wrote and directed.  Ava spend a memorable morning with Windrider, sharing her amazing talent and vision.
The “windy” DuVernay is most definitely both poet and sage, so it is not surprising to see this visionary filmmaker make the quantum leap from a “indie” budget film to a Brad Pitt Christmas blockbuster.

Storytelling creatives like DuVernay,   often find their way to the important issues of our time. ”My vision was surrounding King with the band of brothers and sisters that got him to where he was,” says DuVernay (Entertainment Weekly). ‘You see King’s vulnerability, you see when he gets angry, you see the complexity. But part of the complexity is he didn’t do it alone. This is a film that shows a black community that activated a nation to come together behind what was right.”

So sending good wind to Ava and Selma! SELMA features David Oyelowo (also in DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere) as Martin Luther King, Jr., and a substantial ensemble in Tom Wilkinson, Oprah Winfrey, Keith Stanfield, Tim Roth and Lorraine Toussaint, among others.

SELMA will have an Academy run in December before rolling out nationwide by MLK weekend in January.