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Boundless, undeniable magic. That’s the only way to describe award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay,<br />
media mogul Oprah Winfrey and talented rookie Storm Reid coming together for the Disney feature<br />
A Wrinkle in Time, about a girl who traverses the galaxy to find her father and save the universe.<br />
DuVernay made history even before shooting the first frame of the film, which is based on the 1962 science fiction<br />
novel by Madeleine L’Engle. The highly anticipated vehicle marks the first time a woman of color has been entrusted<br />
to direct a movie that cost upward of $100 million, and in the middle of it all is a 13-year-old Black girl.<br />
“It would have probably blown my head off just to see it,” Winfrey says when asked if she could have imagined<br />
something like Wrinkle being on the silver screen when she was growing up in rural Mississippi. “I can’t, but now<br />
other 6-year-olds and 7-year-olds and 10-year-olds and 14-year-olds and grown people will see it and will have the<br />
impression of what is possible. And that impression of what is possible will live inside them.”<br />
With the exception of movies such as Eve’s Bayou, Annie (2014), Akeelah and the Bee and the animated<br />
flick Home, centering a major motion picture on a little brown girl is rare in Hollywood, but it was the only way<br />
DuVernay would take on the project. »<br />
FEBRUARY <strong>2018</strong> ESSENCE.COM 81
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