{"id":804445,"date":"2026-07-16T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804445\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:04:11","slug":"10-years-later-ava-duvernay-is-moving-onto-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804445\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years later, Ava Duvernay is moving onto 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Ava DuVernay made waves with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/ava-duvernay-s-vital-13th-links-the-prison-to-the-plant-1798189005\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acclaimed documentary 13th<\/a>, which focused on the prison industrial complex in the United States and its roots in slavery, taking its title from the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Now, DuVernay is looking at a different amendment, one that has been increasingly under attack during the second Trump administration. The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, but, as a press release from Netflix says, \u201cit has become a permanent argument.\u201d In her new documentary, DuVernay conducted more than 50 expert interviews, speaking with members of congress\u2014including New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake\u2014plus lawyers, historians, scholars, culture workers, and more to provoke \u201cconversation with a question America still hasn\u2019t settled: Who gets to belong?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf 13th asked who gets caged, then 14th asks who gets counted,\u201d says DuVernay. \u201cThis is not a film about the past tense of freedom. I\u2019m not interested in asking you to look back. The film asks what kind of country is being written beneath our feet now\u2026 while we\u2019re busy believing the stories we\u2019ve all been told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>14th is DuVernay\u2019s first feature-length documentary since 13th premiered on Netflix a decade ago, though she\u2019s directed A Wrinkle In Time and Origin since then. 14th will premiere on Netflix later this year; an exact date hasn\u2019t yet been confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2016, Ava DuVernay made waves with her acclaimed documentary 13th, which focused on the prison industrial complex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-804445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}