Ava DuVernay Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/ava-duvernay/ What to Watch Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:56:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Ava DuVernay Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/ava-duvernay/ 32 32 MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/merrily-we-roll-along/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:16:05 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54586

(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Merrily We Roll Along movie review, it opens Friday, November 5. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There are few words in all of filmdom that strike fear in the hearts of cinephiles […]

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]]> 2023 Venice Film Festival Lineup: New Films From Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Ava DuVernay, Pablo Larrain, & More https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/2023-venice-lineup/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:33:05 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40000

Fresh off yesterday’s announcement of the TIFF lineup, the Venice Film Festival has announced the new slate of films making their world premieres on the Lido for their 80th edition. Among the robust slate of filmmakers premiering their new films […]

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]]> ONLY IN THEATERS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/only-in-theaters/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:09:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38715

(Raphael Sbarge’s Only in Theaters opens Friday, January 20 in New York before making it’s way across the U.S. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In a theatrical model where only the latest blockbusters find a home, […]

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]]> WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND Trailer: SXSW-Winning Doc Is A Tribute To Family & Heritage https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/what-we-leave-behind-2/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 17:07:28 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38017

Iliana Sosa’s documentary What We Leave Behind captures the life of her aging native-Mexican grandfather and his rural homeland. It won two awards at this year’s SXSW where it had its world premiere. The documentary is not only a portrait […]

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]]> Hammer to Nail: The Reboot https://www.hammertonail.com/slideshow/hammer-to-nail-the-reboot/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:07:13 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=32325

One of the features of the increasingly-unpleasant-but-unavoidable social media site Facebook is called ‘Memories.’ Over the weekend, ‘Memories’ kindly reminded me that it was nearly 5 years ago that I was able to convince Hammer to Nail site founders Michael […]

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]]> Jessica Baxter Recaps the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/2018-sfiff-wrap/ Tue, 08 May 2018 16:09:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29563 Every April, talented filmmakers from around the world coalesce in the City by the Bay for the San Francisco International Film Festival. Now in its 61st year, SFIFF is the longest running film festival in the Americas. SFFILM, a nonprofit […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART FOUR: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-4/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:49:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29303 Accepting his long overdue honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year, the soft-spoken, wide-eyed filmmaker Charles Burnett first thanked all his friends and supporters present for their support, particularly those who were there back in the days when he “didn’t have […]

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]]> 2017 IFP Screen Forward Conference Filmmaker Magazine Talks https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2017-ifp-filmmaker-magazine-talks/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:18:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28558 To kick off the 2017 IFP Screen Forward Conference, and in tandem with their 25th anniversary, Filmmaker Magazine programmed a dense day of panels and conversations with filmmakers. The first panel, featuring veteran and new filmmakers from their 25 New Faces […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Spring ’17 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/spring-17-shorts-winners/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:15:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28355 Rather than starting in with some honest excuses in regards to the tardiness of posting the winners for the Hammer to Nail Spring 2017 Short Film Contest (day job is cray, Oak Cliff Film Fest rocked my socks), let me […]

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]]> 13th https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/13th-review/ Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:42:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27608

Had I seen this film before the end of the year, I would have included it among my Top 10 documentaries, for sure...

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