Ava Duvernay's Racial Inequality Doc 'the 13th' To Open Nyff

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Tue, 07/19/2016 - 9:02am

NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay's "The 13th," a documentary about racial inequality and mass incarceration in the United States, will open the 54th New York Film Festival. Festival director Kent Jones called the film "an act of true patriotism."

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Ava Duvernay's Racial Inequality Doc 'the 13th' To Open Nyff

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