It has been announced that Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s latest documentary will premiere on the streaming platform on the 4th December.
Netflix has announced that Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s new documentary 14th will premiere globally on Netflix on Friday, December 4, following a theatrical release in select U.S. and U.K. theatres beginning Friday, November 27.
Having previously been announced as the Closing Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival, 14th marks Ava DuVernay’s return to the festival a decade after the Opening Night premiere of 13th, this time with anew documentary chronicling the enduring constitutional battle over the 14th Amendment. The film will make its world premiere at the festival on Friday, October 9.
Written in the wreckage of the Civil War, the 14th amendment was meant to close the door on the hierarchy of human worth. Instead, it has become a permanent argument. Ava DuVernay’s 14th pulls this constitutional fight out of the footnotes and into the present, chronicling the vicious battle over the amendment that has raged for over 150 years – who gets to belong?
The documentary combines the voices of historians, lawyers, scholars, curators, cultural workers and politicians – from Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and Anna Paulina Luna (R) to former Senator Jeff Flake (R) and current Senator Alex Padilla (D), from legal minds Sherrilyn Ifill, Robert Chang and Stacey Abrams to social commentators like conservative author Donald T. Critchlow and cultural critic Hasan Piker. Pulitzer Prize winners Eric Foner and David Blight round out more than 50 expert interviews conducted by DuVernay for the film.