Claim: Ava DuVernay directs films.
Evidence: At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival , DuVernay won the Best Director Prize for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere , becoming the first African-American woman to win the award.
Middle of Nowhere is 2012 independent feature film written and directed by Ava DuVernay and starring Emayatzy Corinealdi , David Oyelowo , Omari Hardwick and Lorraine Toussaint.