Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you this week.

Ava DuVernay, the Hollywood powerhouse.

In every sense of the term, she writes, she produces, she directs, she does everything

you can do, except for appear in the movies.

Her most recent work is the Netflix series, Highly Acclaimed series.

When they see us about the Central Park Five case in New York City in 1989, she also of

course was the director of Selma, which was nominated for Best Picture a few years back.

She directed a wrinkle in time, Oprah Winfrey's movie that had a budget over $100 million,

which was a new record, a new standard.

She made history as an African-American woman producing a film like that.

Ava also directed the documentary 13th, which was nominated a couple years back for an

Academy Award.

Her latest project is a series called Cherish the Day for the Oprah Winfrey Network.

I'll let her explain the premise of the series.

She produces it, she created it, she didn't direct it though, which as you will hear,

was hard for her to take her hands off because she's so hands on, and she has created and

produced and directed every piece of work she's done since she got into the business, which

brings us to the most interesting part I think of her story.

She's only been doing this for a few years.

She won an award as a director at the Sundance Film Festival seven years ago, and that launched

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