At last year’s Ves Summit, indie-minded filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) described how, as a black woman from Compton, she learned to overcome her fear of VFX and incorporate it into her storytelling arsenal for “A Wrinkle in Time.” This was crucial as the first woman of color to tackle a $100-million studio tentpole: “I pride myself as the queen of the scene in a room…I know how to make the past and the present,” said DuVernay.
“I don’t know how to make the future — until now.”But when Industrial Light & Magic’s Rich McBride (the Oscar-nominated supervisor for “The Revenant”) broke the process down into layers, the experience became a transformation.
“There are pieces of the puzzle that I didn’t need to see or comment on,” added DuVernay.
“I’ve been able to learn and speak to [visual effects] in a robust manner.
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