Ava DuVernay's Array media company is launching a new initiative designed to hold police officers accountable. The Law Enforcement Accountability Project, or LEAP, which DuVernay announced in an appearance on Monday's Ellen DeGeneres Show, is a fund focused on storytelling around police violence and abuse that will commission projects across multiple forms of media including film, literature, theater, dance, fine art and music.
LEAP is designed to empower activists to pursue narrative change and is envisioned as a two-year project to launch at least 25 works of art.
DuVernay talked about the idea behind the initiative on Ellen. "I've been thinking a lot about my own rage. My own emotions," she began.
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