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Ava DuVernay, who topped Adweek’s Creative 100 List in 2018, has had another breakout year.
The acclaimed writer, director and producer in May released When They See Us, a four-part miniseries centered on the case of five black and Latino teenage boys who were wrongfully accused and convicted of rape in 1989. DuVernay’s goal with the project, as she previously told Adweek, was “to give those boys and their families a voice,” and her narrative focuses on the families of the boys over the course of several decades to track the effect of the wrongful convictions on their lives.
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