half of all episodic TV shows, more than doubling figures reported just five years prior. It was within that five-year span that Ava DuVernay, creator and executive producer of Queen Sugar, established “a model for an industry struggling with diversity,” as the Washington Post described it.
The model was placing a woman director at the helm of all 13 episodes of season one of the OWN drama. Living up to the title of episode one of season one, “First Things First,” when the Oprah Winfrey Network signed on to develop the project, DuVernay made sure she brought a gang of women with her, providing an opportunity most women directors wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.Like Rihanna, when she launched Fenty Beauty with 40 foundation shades and forced.
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