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Ava DuVernay’s 14th to close New York Film Festival a decade after 13th
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Ava DuVernay's documentary "14th" will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the New York Film Festival on 9 October at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. The screening carries symbolic weight, coming a decade after DuVernay's Oscar-nominated "13th" opened the same festival in 2016; where that film examined the US Constitution's 13th Amendment and its links to mass incarceration, "14th" turns to the 14th Amendment's guarantees of birthright citizenship, due process and equal protection, arguing these principles are now under sustained attack.
The film features interviews with figures including Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Anna Paulina Luna, legal experts Sherrilyn Ifill, Robert Chang and Stacey Abrams, and commentators such as Donald T. Critchlow and Hasan Piker. Netflix will release "14th" on its streaming platform later this year, with DuVernay describing it as asking "who gets counted" in contrast to "13th"'s focus on "who gets caged". NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim called the film "a movie for the moment", praising its clarity in showing "what led us here, and what is at stake right now".
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In short
- "14th" premieres as NYFF closing film on 9 October
- Sequel to DuVernay's Oscar-nominated "13th", ten years on
- Netflix to stream the film later this year
How this story developed
- 4 months ago DuVernay's framing shifted from that contrast with "13th" to a forward-looking message, as she said she hopes "14th" leaves audiences "debating, questioning, and, above all, imagining what is still possible," while also reflecting on the symbolism of closing the festival exactly ten years after "13th" opened it.
- 4 months ago Ava DuVernay's "14th" was set to premiere on 9 October as the closing night film of the New York Film Festival, revisiting constitutional themes a decade after "13th" opened the same festival, with DuVernay framing the new film's focus on "who gets counted".
Explained simply
Ava DuVernay is a US filmmaker known for tackling race and justice in America, including through her 2016 Oscar-nominated documentary "13th", which examined a constitutional amendment linked to the abolition of slavery and its ties to modern mass incarceration. The New York Film Festival is a major annual showcase run at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and "13th" was notable for opening that festival a decade ago.
DuVernay's new documentary, "14th", looks at a different part of the US Constitution, the amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship, due process and equal treatment under the law. It brings together a wide range of voices, including elected politicians, legal scholars and commentators with differing viewpoints, to examine how these constitutional protections are being tested today.
The film's premiere at the same festival ten years on is being seen as a deliberate echo of "13th", inviting comparison between the two amendments and the issues they cover. It will later be made available to a much wider audience through Netflix, extending its reach well beyond the festival screening.
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Originally published by Variety as “Ava DuVernay’s ’14th’ Documentary to World Premiere at New York Film Festival”.