Ava DuVernay made it clear that casting minorities in front of and behind the camera was a conscious effort on her part at the premiere of OWN’s newest family drama, “Queen Sugar.”
“We had a majority women and people of color writer’s room,” the creator-producer-director told the crowd after introducing her team. She then waved for her African-American female post-production supervisor to come onstage. “A lot of people do not know that there is this position, and they don’t know that a sister can do it.”
“Queen Sugar,” which adapts from the Natalie Baszile novel and tells the story of estranged siblings who come together to to run an ailing sugarcane farm in Louisiana, premieres as a two-night event on Tuesday, September 6 and Wednesday, September 7 at 10 p.m. on OWN.
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