By Veronica Wells ·Updated December 10, 2021
In 2011, a year after the release of her film I Will Follow, Ava DuVernay noticed that her low-budget independently made film was fighting an uphill battle. A battle her white counterparts didn’t have to fight. So she had an idea. She figured that if she could self-distribute her own project successfully, she could use the same model to do so for others.
“[I thought] what
