BY BONITA • OCTOBER 30, 2018

Ava DuVernay has been reshaping the landscape of Hollywood for years. Just last year, she made history as the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Documentary Feature,” thanks to her searing film on prison reform, 13th. This year marked her first big-budget film, A Wrinkle in Time, which made her the first woman of color to direct a live-action movie with a budget over $100 million. Now, she’ll begin work on a project documenting a monumental figure in music history: Prince.

According to Variety, DuVernay is partnering with Netflix on a multi-chapter docu-series about the late icon, whose 2016 death cast a long shadow over the lives of music fans. Prince’s estate has been justifiably litigious in the past, taking great care that any work involving Prince’s legacy has full permission to move forward. It appears DuVernay has sealed this deal with the complete cooperation of the Prince estate, a historic deal which speaks to DuVernay’s place in the industry.

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