13th and When They See Us. It’s clear the director has dedicated her career to amplifying Black issues, and she continues to keep her foot on the gas.
DuVernay’s latest project will finance new stories about police brutality through her latest initiative, the Law Enforcement Accountability Project.
LEAP aims to hold police officers accountable, whether or not they have been charged for their crimes. LEAP will fund 25 projects over the next two years, spanning from movies, theater, photography, music, poetry, dance, and sculpture, according to The Washington Post.
Kicking off with a $3 million budget, backed by the Ford Foundation and producer Ryan Murphy, LEAP’s mission is to “disrupt the code of silence that exists around police aggression.
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