Ava DuVernay’s next project with Netflix is the feature film adaptation of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” written by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson. This will be DuVernay’s first feature film with Netflix that she will make under her banner ARRAY Filmworks.
As per Netflix, “Through a multiple-story structure, ‘Caste’ examines the unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how our lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions dating back generations.”
Through ‘Caste’ DuVernay will reunite with Netflix executive Tendo Nagenda, with whom she worked on Disney’s” A Wrinkle in Time”, that made her the “highest grossing Black woman director in American box office history”.
DuVernay’s previous work with Netflix includes her much acclaimed documentary ’13th’, that made her the first Black woman feature director to be nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win BAFTA, Emmy and Peabody Awards. Other than this there is limited series “When They See Us” that received 16 Emmy nominations. As of now, DuVernay is working with Netflix on “Colin in Black & White”, a limited series based on the adolescent life of athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick.
Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, DuVernay will be producing the Netflix film alongside Sarah Bremner and Paul Garnes of ARRAY Filmworks.