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Ava DuVernay's Array Sets Live Streaming Event With 9 Commissioned Artists On 5th Anniversary Of Its Law Enforcement Accountability Project
Ava DuVernay's Peabody-winning Array is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP) with a live, virtual gathering of all nine commissioned LEAP artists. The free event will stream exclusively at today, Friday, June 6 at 12 PM PST. LEAP was launched in 2020 as a response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a moment that catalyzed a global movement demanding justice and transparency in law enforcement. Rather than respond with a film or documentary, DuVernay activated a collective of artists across multiple disciplines to tell the truth about the police abuse of Black people through storytelling and creativity. More from Deadline "There Is No Future In Forgetting": Watch Great Americans Medal Recipient Ava DuVernay's Smithsonian Speech 'Matrix' Co-Creator & Hundreds Of Hollywood A-Listers Want To Stop AI Obliterating Copyright Laws; Lilly Wachowski, Paul McCartney, Ava DuVernay, Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón + More Write White House Ava DuVernay Wants To Make A TV Series About Tom Bradley Funded by more than 1,200 individual donors, LEAP has supported nine original works across a range of mediums including photography, dance, poetry, music, culinary art, book design, and more. For the first time, all LEAP artists will come together in a virtual artist forum to reflect on their creative process, their work and the continuing need for art as a force for justice. Moderated by Mercedes Cooper, LEAP curator and Array's EVP of Public Programming, the event will reflect on the legacy of LEAP's work over the past five years, and the ongoing importance of uplifting activist voices through artistic expression. 'LEAP was built on the belief that art can be a powerful tool to hold specific officers accountable,' said DuVernay. 'In marking this milestone, we honor the artists who dared to tell the truth, and the communities that empowered them to do so.' Participating LEAP Artists: Steve Irby | Photography | 41 to '99 Reggie Black | Hand Type Art | 248 Black Lives Taken Francesca Harper | Dance Choreography | The Reckoning Jocelyn Jackson | Culinary Art | Fixed Price Menu W.J. Lofton | Poetry | Would You Kill God Too? Delita Martin | Mixed Media Mural | Blue Is the Color We See Before We Die Polymode | Book Design | The Fiction of Protection Julian Stephen | Audio Drama | The Aura Ra-Re Valverde | Original Song | Safe Where? Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series
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11-05-2025
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Jonathan Pryce Worries He Could Be Denied Entry To U.S. For Speaking Mind On Trump's Tariff Plan
EXCLUSIVE: The Crown star Jonathan Pryce has joked that he worries about being barred from America for voicing his full views on Donald Trump's vision to slap tariffs on foreign films. Speaking to Deadline's Baz Bamigboye on the BAFTA TV Awards red carpet, Pryce said he was planning to visit New York in the coming weeks and did not wish to say 'too much' about tariffs. More from Deadline BAFTA TV Awards Winners Unveiled - Updating Live "There Is No Future In Forgetting": Watch Great Americans Medal Recipient Ava DuVernay's Smithsonian Speech How To Watch The 2025 BAFTA Television Awards On TV And Online 'I want to get in easily, I don't want to be sent back,' he laughed. Pryce continued: 'The frustrating thing about the tariffs is he [Trump] announces it, panics everybody by not telling them the details. So you've got people in Cannes now trying to do deals and it's going to be impossible until he says exactly what it is and how he is going to police it.' The Welsh actor was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA TV Awards for his role as David Cartwright in Slow Horses. He said Slow Horses' success has been a slow-burner because Apple TV+ did not overpublicize the series and allowed audiences to discover it for themselves. Trump has made clear that his shock plans to slap a 100% tariff on film imports would not be included in a trade deal with the UK, where Pryce films Slow Horses. The UK would be particularly vulnerable to any movie tariff, given that the country has established itself as one of Hollywood's top destinations for offshoring shoots, thanks to tax incentives, a skilled workforce, and a shared language. Trump's bombshell announcement came in a Truth Social post last weekend, telling followers he planned to apply a tariff to 'any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands.' The president later said he did not intend to 'hurt' the entertainment industry, adding that he intended to meet with studio chiefs to 'make sure they're happy.' Jon Voight, the Oscar-winner and special ambassador to Hollywood, presented his plan to 'make Hollywood great again' to Trump. Deadline got hold of Voight's proposal document, which states that if a U.S.-based production 'could have been produced in the U.S., but the producer elects to produce in a foreign country and receives a production tax incentive therefor, a tariff will be placed on that production equal to 120% of the value of the foreign incentive received.' Best of Deadline The Fox News To White House Pipeline: TV Personalities Who Joined The Trump Administration Celebrities Voting And Encouraging Voting In The 2024 Election Kamala Harris Celebrity Endorsements: A List Of Celebrities Supporting The VP
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11-05-2025
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'There Is No Future In Forgetting': Watch Great Americans Medal Recipient Ava DuVernay's Smithsonian Speech
'Let us remind those who try to 'restore' a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,' said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week upon receiving the honor from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Rebuking those who 'fear…the full American story told in its dazzling complexity and devastating contradictions,' the Academy Award nominee also noted 'history is not a weapon to be sheathed when inconvenient. It is not a bedtime story meant to lull us to sleep. It is a river, flowing… deep and often turbulent.' More from Deadline Cecily Strong Returns As Merlot-Spewing Jeanine Pirro In 'Saturday Night Live' Open That Skewers Donald Trump's Fox News Picks Michael Feinstein Slams Kennedy Center For "Government-Sanctioned Censorship" Francis Ford Coppola Talks 'Megalopolis' Cult Status "After The Election" & Denounces Trump's Tariffs Putting it very bluntly, DuVernay told the crowd: There is no future in forgetting. While never directly mentioning Donald Trump by name in her May 8 remarks, DuVernay characteristically made her point extremely clear to anyone picking up what she was putting down about his ongoing MAGA attacks on democracy, diversity and the Smithsonian itself. Stating that 'now at a time when truth itself is under revision,' the filmmaker and activist starkly added: 'We know that what is sometimes labeled improper ideology is in fact connective, that what some call distorted is simply a new perspective, long buried, now revealed.' Joining past Great Americans Award recipients Gen. Colin Powell, Thomas J. Brokaw, Ex-Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Cal Ripken Jr., Billie Jean King, Paul Simon, Anthony Fauci, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (posthumously) and YoYo Ma, DuVernay is the 10th person to be given the honor. The ARRAY founder is also 'the first director, writer and producer to receive the award,' according to the Smithsonian. Emmy, BAFTA and Peabody Award winner DuVernay was chosen this year because of 'her lifetime contributions embodying American ideas and ideals,' the Smithsonian said in its announcement of the award. Watch the career spanning Honoree video that preceded DuVernay's speech here: 'DuVernay's extraordinary impact through the medium of film, using it to cast an unflinching eye on American history brought her forward as someone who exemplifies the highest ideals of artistry, altruism and advocacy,' the museum's Elizabeth MacMillan Director Anthea M. Hartig said of the Origin director in presenting the award. 'Her service and achievements embody the true meaning of a Great American.' Read Ava DuVernay's full Smithsonian speech here: Thank you to the National Museum of American History, Dr. Hartig and the remarkable leadership of the Smithsonian for bestowing upon me this truly incredible honor. It is not lost on me – what it means to stand in this place, supported by an institution that understands the weight of history… and the wonder of telling it well. That understanding feels especially urgent now, at a time when truth itself is under revision… and fear feels like an animating force. Fear of mirrors. Fear of memory. Fear of the full American story told in its dazzling complexity and devastating contradictions. History is not a weapon to be sheathed when inconvenient. It is not a bedtime story meant to lull us to sleep. It is a river, flowing… deep and often turbulent. And the Smithsonian has long been the bridge that lets us cross with care. We know that what is sometimes labeled 'improper ideology' is in fact connective. That what some call 'distorted' is simply a new perspective—long buried, now revealed. Let me tell you about the child who walks into the Smithsonian and sees a photograph of a woman who looks like her mother, who looks like her grandmother, standing tall in protest, or in prayer, or in pride. Let me tell you about the teacher who brings students here because their textbooks will not speak of redlining, or Tulsa, or internment camps, or Stonewall. Let me tell you about the families—Black, white, brown, immigrant, native—who walk through those doors and feel that this country might make room for all of them. That is not indoctrination. That is belonging. That is education. That is democracy. And at the helm of this bastion of truth stands a man of vision, a man of class, of fortitude, secretary, doctor extravagant —Dr. Lonnie Bunch. The first historian to lead the Smithsonian. The first African American to do so. A curator of courage. A guardian of good. A builder of bridges between pain and progress. Under his stewardship, the Smithsonian has done what America must continue to do—confront the contradictions in our founding, illuminate the fault lines in our systems, and still hold space for grace, for grit, for growth, for greatness. Because here the truth is… There is no honor in history that flatters itself. There is no integrity in memory that only remembers some. And there is no future in forgetting. To those who would close their eyes to injustice, who would silence the voices of our elders, our ancestors, our scholars, our artists —I offer this: We will not comply with forgetting. We will not make myths in place of memory. We will not trade the truth for comfort. Instead, we will gather. We will remember. We will teach. We will share. We will tell it all. Let us hold that line. And let us remind those who try to 'restore' a narrow, divisive past — That the future belongs to the whole of us. And even when the current swell is upon us, the bridge will hold, because truth deserves passage. And with the Smithsonian and this museum, we do not cross alone. Thank you for tonight, very much. Best of Deadline All The Songs In Netflix's 'Forever': From Tyler The Creator To SZA 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Yahoo
11-05-2025
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Jonathan Pryce Worries He Could Be Denied Entry To U.S. For Speaking Mind On Trump's Tariff Plan
EXCLUSIVE: The Crown star Jonathan Pryce has joked that he worries about being barred from America for voicing his full views on Donald Trump's vision to slap tariffs on foreign films. Speaking to Deadline's Baz Bamigboye on the BAFTA TV Awards red carpet, Pryce said he was planning to visit New York in the coming weeks and did not wish to say 'too much' about tariffs. More from Deadline BAFTA TV Awards Winners Unveiled - Updating Live "There Is No Future In Forgetting": Watch Great Americans Medal Recipient Ava DuVernay's Smithsonian Speech How To Watch The 2025 BAFTA Television Awards On TV And Online 'I want to get in easily, I don't want to be sent back,' he laughed. Pryce continued: 'The frustrating thing about the tariffs is he [Trump] announces it, panics everybody by not telling them the details. So you've got people in Cannes now trying to do deals and it's going to be impossible until he says exactly what it is and how he is going to police it.' 'Slow Horses' star and BAFTA TV Supporting Actor nominee Jonathan Pryce on Donald Trump's film tariffs and their effects on the Cannes market: 'The frustrating thing about the tariffs is he announces it and panics everybody by not telling them the details' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) May 11, 2025 The Welsh actor was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA TV Awards for his role as David Cartwright in Slow Horses. He said Slow Horses' success has been a slow-burner because Apple TV+ did not overpublicize the series and allowed audiences to discover it for themselves. Trump has made clear that his shock plans to slap a 100% tariff on film imports would not be included in a trade deal with the UK, where Pryce films Slow Horses. The UK would be particularly vulnerable to any movie tariff, given that the country has established itself as one of Hollywood's top destinations for offshoring shoots, thanks to tax incentives, a skilled workforce, and a shared language. Trump's bombshell announcement came in a Truth Social post last weekend, telling followers he planned to apply a tariff to 'any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands.' The president later said he did not intend to 'hurt' the entertainment industry, adding that he intended to meet with studio chiefs to 'make sure they're happy.' Jon Voight, the Oscar-winner and special ambassador to Hollywood, presented his plan to 'make Hollywood great again' to Trump. Deadline got hold of Voight's proposal document, which states that if a U.S.-based production 'could have been produced in the U.S., but the producer elects to produce in a foreign country and receives a production tax incentive therefor, a tariff will be placed on that production equal to 120% of the value of the foreign incentive received.' Best of Deadline The Fox News To White House Pipeline: TV Personalities Who Joined The Trump Administration Celebrities Voting And Encouraging Voting In The 2024 Election Kamala Harris Celebrity Endorsements: A List Of Celebrities Supporting The VP
New York Times
09-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Ava DuVernay Defends a Smithsonian Under Fire From Trump
The director Ava DuVernay on Thursday added her voice to those defending the Smithsonian Institution following President Trump's efforts to try to reshape its depiction of American history. Ms. DuVernay, a prominent Black filmmaker whose works have included 'Selma' and '13th,' was receiving the Great Americans Medal in a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington. Speaking at the award ceremony, Ms. DuVernay praised the Smithsonian for being a place of education and inclusivity. 'Let me tell you about the families — Black, white, Native, immigrant — who walk through the doors of Smithsonian museums and feel that this country might just make room for them after all,' she said. 'That is not indoctrination. That is belonging. That is education. That is democracy.' Her remarks came in the wake of an executive order by President Trump in March that accused the Smithsonian of promoting 'narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.' The order, titled 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,' said there had been an 'effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.' In it, President Trump called for an end to spending on exhibitions or programs that 'degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race or promote ideologies inconsistent with federal law.' The order has been seen by some as a threat in particular to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which was cited by President Trump. Several hundred protesters marched to the museum on Saturday, demanding that Black history and the museums that explore it be protected from interference. In a public letter last month, four Democratic members of a House oversight committee urged Vice President JD Vance, who sits on the Smithsonian's board, to reject the attempt to impose the president's own views of American history. The legislators said the effort would threaten the Smithsonian's curatorial autonomy and excellence. Ms. DuVernay did not mention Mr. Trump in her remarks but she clearly spoke to the thrust of the executive order. She said that the Smithsonian's understanding of history 'feels especially urgent now at a time when truth itself is under revision and fear feels like an animating force, fear of mirrors, fear of memory, fear of the full American story told in its dazzling complexity and devastating contradictions.' 'We know that what is sometimes labeled improper ideology is in fact connective, that what some call distorted is simply a new perspective, long buried, now revealed,' she said. The speech drew loud applause including at a moment when she praised Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, who has come under criticism from the administration. 'At the helm stands a man of vision, of class,' she said, calling him 'a curator of courage.' 'Under his outstanding stewardship, the Smithsonian has done what America must continue to do, confront the contradictions in our founding, illuminate the fault lines in our systems,' she said. 'There is no honor in history that flatters itself,' she said, adding, 'Let us remind those who try to restore a narrow, divisive view of the past that the future belongs to the whole of us.' Ms. DuVernay received the award from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History 'for her extraordinary contributions to the nation as a director, writer, producer and film distributor,' the Smithsonian's website said. Previous recipients of the award include Madeleine K. Albright, Gen. Colin L. Powell, Anthony S. Fauci and Yo-Yo Ma. According to the Smithsonian's website, 'Since its inception in 2016, the Great Americans Medal has honored trailblazers who have made a lasting impact in their fields and whose philanthropic and humanitarian endeavors have set them apart.' She received the award onstage with Mr. Bunch, David M. Rubenstein, Smithsonian Regent Emeritus, and the history museum's director, Anthea M. Hartig. The Smithsonian posted a video on its website describing her achievements. 'DuVernay's extraordinary impact through the medium of film, using it to cast an unflinching eye on American history, brought her forward as someone who exemplifies the highest ideals of artistry, altruism and advocacy,' Ms. Hartig said in a statement. 'Her service and achievements embody the true meaning of a Great American.' Ms. DuVernay, who has often been critical of President Trump, praised the Smithsonian earlier this week on MSNBC, where she noted the institution stuck with her honor despite her criticism. She said she welcomed receiving the award at a time when the Smithsonian is under pressure. 'If you can shut up the artists, if you can make us look away from history, then you do control minds, you control the moment,' she said. In that interview she attacked the executive order as 'laughable' and accused the Trump administration of being obsessed with race. 'I actually take great solace in actually reading these executive orders because their level of absurdity actually calms me,' she said.
