{"id":12866,"date":"2026-07-21T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=12866"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:06:23","slug":"new-york-film-festival-sets-world-premiere-of-ava-duvernays-14th-as-closing-night-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=12866","title":{"rendered":"New York Film Festival Sets World Premiere Of Ava DuVernay&#8217;s \u201814th\u2019 As Closing Night Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ava-duvernay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ava-duvernay\" data-tag=\"ava-duvernay\">Ava DuVernay<\/a>\u2019s documentary <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/14th\/\" id=\"auto-tag_14th\" data-tag=\"14th\">14th<\/a> <\/em>will close out the the 64th <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/new-york-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_new-york-film-festival\" data-tag=\"new-york-film-festival\">New York Film Festival<\/a> in its world premiere Oct. 9, ten years after her film <em>13th <\/em>opened the fest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuVernay\u2019s previous doc argued that loopholes in the U.S. Constitution\u2019s 13th Amendment \u2014 the abolition of slavery \u2014 led to today\u2019s mass incarceration of Black Americans. \u201cThat film was released on the eve of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency; since then, an alarming number of our democratic norms and principles have eroded, further disenfranchising Black Americans,\u201d NYFF said. \u201cIn response to our distressing new reality, DuVernay has created a thrillingly expansive sequel of sorts, which passionately and persuasively details how the tenets of the 14th Amendment, ratified post\u2013Civil War, are now under systematic attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVoices in the film, a Netflix release, include Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), current Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), lawyer and former Georgia State representative Stacey Abrams, legal voices Sherrilyn Ifill, Robert Chang, and social commentators like Donald T. Critchlow and Hasan Piker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 14th Amendment\u2019s foundational principles include birthright citizenship, due process, equal protection under the law, and the prohibition for heads of state to engage in acts of insurrection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cExactly a decade after <em>13th<\/em> opened the New York Film Festival, it feels especially meaningful to return with <em>14th<\/em> as the 2026 Closing Night Selection,\u201d said DuVernay. \u201cNYFF has always been a place where films invite conversation rather than simply applause. To that end, <em>14th<\/em> attempts to interrogate a promise powerful enough to change a nation\u2014and controversial enough to divide it for more than 150 years. There\u2019s no better place to begin that conversation than NYFF. I\u2019m grateful to [NYFF Artistic Director] Dennis Lim and team for believing in work that asks difficult questions, and I\u2019m honored to share this film with New York audiences first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLim called <em>14th<\/em> \u201ca movie for the moment that sees through the fog of the present. The great gift of this urgent and essential work is its clarity: Ava has made a film that shows us precisely what led us here, and what is at stake right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Emmy, BAFTA, Sundance and Peabody Award winner and Oscar nominee (<em>Selma<\/em>, <em>13th<\/em>, <em>Middle of Nowhere<\/em>, <em>A Wrinkle in Time<\/em>, <em>Origin<\/em> and series <em>When They See Us, Queen Sugar<\/em>) is the founder of the narrative collective ARRAY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe North American premiere James Gray\u2019s Cannes-premiering <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paper-tiger\/\">Paper Tiger<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will open the fest, which runs September 25 through October 12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava DuVernay\u2019s documentary 14th will close out the the 64th New York Film Festival in its world premiere Oct. 9, ten years after her film 13th opened the fest. 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