Moments That Make Us: Ava DuVernay’s Path from Publicist to Visionary Filmmaker

[@truegrit7697]

It is so wonderful to have women interviewing other women in meaningful, intelligent ways.

[@Sho_ti_hassan]

Need to see more interactions like this❤

[@chas.5009]

Yeah, no pesky ex husband visiting a certain island with children being sacrificed and eaten questions and junk like that. Hey mel, did you go visit too??? Hope you got a good deal on maui land. Ghouls

[@tarachristina3922]

Dear Ava DuVernay, thank you! You inspire me. If I ever get a chance to meet you I’ll ask for a hug. Whether you say yes or no, I’ll tell you how much your brilliance means to me. I never thought I’d love a movie as much as I love “Daughters of the Dust.” No comparison, but “Origin”is also my favorite. I crave conversations on the topic. You are incredible! Please keep shining. Dear Melinda French Gates, I appreciate you. Your philanthropy is inspiring. I too crave to be a philanthropist. I contribute what I can when, but soon I’ll contribute a great deal more. AND, this series is brilliant. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@parisaforpeace]

11:36 We need to care about our place in the world and what we add to it as opposed to what we are taking from it.

[@cathypreston1095]

How lucky are we to enjoy your incredible and thoughtful conversation. Thank you ladies.

[@hopefulone3599]

So true, totally agree with you on that

[@pleasebeinteresting]

Oh give it a rest😂

[@lourdesarlinmateo-casanova7745]

I don't know her but not sure why I can't comment on this post

[@Ralph-dt5gs]

​@@lourdesarlinmateo-casanova7745 Him not her

[@deborah5261]

Totally agree!

[@TomLloyd-18]

I'm excited on MFG's latest venture and her choices of amazing women to talk with. This interview is so interesting and makes me hopeful for this country's future.

[@hmb7x]

Ava, thank you for the light and vision you bring into the world!

[@lj9524]

Thank you both! An insightful discussion about being women! Bravo!

[@Nzembitv]

Ms. Melinda! I really love your unique way of entering & celebrating your 60th birthday! And I absolutely love your passion for the freedom of girls/women all over the world; especially in Africa! I wish you a happy 60th birthday, filled with love, freedom, peace & absolute joy! 🎂 ❤🙏

[@igen-theindependentgospele7384]

Happy Blessed Birthday, Melinda French Gates & Thank you for BEING a Blessing!👑

[@shirleyharris1335]

Space is exactly what’s missing as an extremely creative person, surrounded completed works of art invading the comfort zone of producing more works. These types of dialogue are inspiring and motivating. I have quite of few more years on you both and have not made my mark. Appreciate listening to the journies of such notable architects. ThanX so much✌🏽💙🙏🏽

[@barbaralemons4741]

I'm really enjoying this series of interviews. Looking forward to the next one! :)

[@rubycarlson9226]

Melinda. This is a wonderful and much needed honest conversations that need to be have. BRAVO for you. Your guests are all authentic.

[@daylightangel1494]

Wake up ruby dear and stop worshiping a witch

[@yvonneclarke6021]

I celebrated 60 in July. Thank you for celebrating your birthday this way. I am enjoying these interviews. Happy birthday Melinda🎉

[@VictorB-g2q]

You are so beautiful blak women! 😮 Very very nice! Very so sexy! And white women to beautiful! 😮 Thank you very much! ❤

[@MDJ14_2T]

Interviewed one of my favorite leading ladies in entertainment and society. What a gem! I'd love to connect Melinda!

[@chrismallory8787]

I just happened to catch CBS Mornings interview with MFG. When it was mentioned that Ava DuVernay was one of her guess, I made certain to block a time to view it. Ava DuVernay is a ray from the Sun, she brilliantly illuminates a story in such a way that is so relatable to its authentic contents. The way she and her outstanding crew made a most prolific author Isabel Wilkerson's book , Caste:The Origins of Our Discontent breathable and digestible is indeed an astonishing bit of film making that has no equal. I am a avid film watcher from Bogart to Hitchcock, from DeMille to Spike Lee 😀 from Blaxploitation films to Kubrick to Ken burns to Dr."Skip" Gates and many independent film makers of our time. Ava may be somewhat new to this but is indeed a Tour de Force to be reckon with in the 21st Century !!! I will continue to be on the look out for her upcoming projects and support her Array productions. Any director who can have a Funko Pop Directors figure made in there image has obviously made it onto a many radar. May your Star continue to Shine Brightly for all the World to see for you are a Shining Star !!! 🎉🎉🎉 For Your Consideration, When They See Us The Thirteenth Origin Thank You MFG, and much, much thanks to Miss DuVernay 🎉🎉🎉

[@ap2099-k2m]

What a fascinating woman. Thank you so much for this conversation! 🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ariesLily]

Love Ava! Such a great mind. Tell the stories you want to tell.

[@YvonnePierre]

Awesome and inspiring conversation!!! Thank you for creating Moments that Makes Us. You have some of my favorite people as guests. My admiration for you is growing as I'm getting to know you through these conversations.

[@Toywins]

I absolutely LOVE Ava DuVernay.

[@LittleMew133]

I like how Ava and Oprah both speak about the universe's messages; the whispers that guide you.

[@anitaedwards4967]

I love Melinda's podcast, keep up the good work

[@andrescv2665]

Love Melinda, a true inspiration

[@LittleMew133]

That's so interesting! Asking "what do you want to become?" IS a box. Like there's some kind of end destination, or that a job title IS becoming. While there's no end destination in life (except death); you are constantly becoming, and job title is NOT you.

[@Nzembitv]

I totally agree!💪🏾

[@katiemclaughlin946]

Inspired by how she has her head on straight! Loved this quote about the running themes of her films: "what place am I occupying and how am I affecting other people." Success as a filmmaker "not a weight, a blessing."

[@65g4]

She is one of my fav filmmakers right now. I love the themes she explores in her films and fearlessness as a filmmmaker she is a strong intelligent beautiful woman

[@Dem0stumblers6726]

Yeah she's got her head on straight to brainwash people in to this new regime of women and the Takeover Theory

[@daylightangel1494]

Stop idolizing a witch. Wake the heck up women

[@lindajones2905]

Origin was the best Ava, thank you. I had to watch with timeouts because your message was so powerful. Isabel’s book was great and you brought it to life. Loved this interview too. Bless you Ava and Happy Birthday Melinda, giving these interviews to us to celebrate, just awesome.

[@DomRou-intheBu]

Loved this so much!!! What a beautiful woman with presence. Thank you so much!

[@ingerrogers5420]

Absolutely love this Channel ! Thank you so much for sharing these amazing conversations ❤

[@lovely-mk4rt]

I invited a few neighbors and friends, made a delicious meal ( only 4 items) and we talked and had such enjoyable evening of unexpected fun and happiness, for my 60th birthday. Every day is a present 💐excellent interview, thank for this video. Aloha from Hawai’i. 🌺

[@gilbertoadc]

In the past, I said I was 20 years old, now I've increased it a little and I say I'm 30.

[@nivedalva]

Am so happy for Melinda . Great podcast. All the very best.

[@AugustaNwokafor]

I had quiet a few aha moments listening to this conversation. I am also in my fifties and going through a major transition in my life. I understand and agree with Ava. Am more grounded and content at the same time happy to evolve. Am learning more: mindfulness & reflection and appreciating the people along my path.

[@spiritjourney1]

Excellent. Thank you! 🎉

[@Ldw-my4ci]

Love this channel and Happy Birthday ❤🎉

[@jhendry6969]

Thank you Melinda for this platform, you are such an inspiration and the women you have on really help me learn, stay curious and filled with such hope and joy while growing older and becoming wiser. 🙏

[@terry2588]

Two Amazing Women 👍🏽👍🏽⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@ponceesponce]

Thank you for these conversations, Melinda. So much wisdom and authenticity coming across - it feels generous and overflowing of good energy . More! More! More!

[@deborah5261]

Agree!

[@adriennedickens9092]

I love this type on interview. Such power . Grace and beauty ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@dakotac180]

My dream is to work on set design/production on films like hers. Her stories touch my my mind and heart and educate me at the same time. Also her ben and jerrys ice cream is the best.

[@AspiesMind]

I have turned 40 this year and I feel as I have just started to live because I know what I want and how to achieve it!

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Happy Summer holidays of love for creative projects to work on, you are such a huge inspiration for all of us, very interesting these interviews, indeed. More based on experiences of life than...soft gossip, the struggle of life is far beyond money, profits, success or temporary luck 🎉❤🎉

[@LittleMew133]

I have Caste on my reading list. This talk really piques my interest, going to prioritize picking it up next.

[@Mysteriousgirl-7]

two beautiful and wise ladies 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@nancyrider7390]

Melinda - thank you.

[@vitosantangelo1]

Never heard or seen Ava before this. I already love her ✔

[@npguru]

I would love to meet Melinda

[@callmemaxi4136]

❤❤your work….thank you

[@aleyabellydance2]

Oh my... can't wait to see this

[@camuchanomellini903]

What a great lady and a beautiful roll model to African American women. PS. Melinda as interior designer I truly appreciate your beautiful set up of your salon. cozy and welcoming

[@BP-nn7tq]

Love this❤

[@chanareed3821]

I am really enjoying watching MFG interview each woman. I am learning a great deal. But I have to comment on how amazing the set looks. Gee I want to sit and feel the couch and touch the plants.😂.

[@cynthiaanderson3742]

GOD THANK YOU FOR GAVE ME LIFE TO SEE EVER AGE AND WISDOM COME FROM WITH AGE🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉AMEN AMEN 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤️ ☺️ 😊

[@brendamatcott3231]

she followed her bliss.

[@P_Belle]

my gosh she is *stunnning* - the skin, jawline, lips, eyes, hair, hands and naturalized nails...

[@carolbeckdesigns]

I found that I have become a lot more comfortable in my own skin.

[@JoseGPonce-wn7gr]

Yo sé la historia

[@shirleyharris1335]

Gosh! Love this dialogue! I learn something new every day! Totally agree…where did the word “bored” come from! Never liked that either, what you wanna do…? All over the place, I am, altho wish I wasn’t!😩✌🏽💙🙏🏽

[@carlostomas1917]

I just turned 57 a couple weeks ago, and I don't really think about my age until someone asks.

[@gilbertoadc]

I turn 60 this year in November, but I think and act as if I were 30 years old.

[@layaniwanfakosebazhangakan4906]

Good for you 😊

[@Mysteriousgirl-7]

So happy to hear that😍

[@avbroooo]

Acting AND THINKING 30 ? Is that good or bad?

[@gilbertoadc]

@@avbroooo It's very good, because you live with a youthful mindset. I play and pay a lot of attention to the children. I don't think I'll ever be an adult...

[@avbroooo]

@@gilbertoadc more life buddy ♥️

[@Sho_ti_hassan]

Great 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@99iwaena]

Both looking great😍👍….

[@brendalewis3810]

Love ❤️ Ms.Gates

[@maroonrebel]

Jah & Jahes love. ☀🌞🌇🌅🌄This was a beautiful conversation with Ava DuVernay. I love her, she is beautiful, intelligent, and articulate. Can anyone please tell me who the designer of that dress is? Happy 60th birthday/bornday/bearthday Mrs.French Gates. I love the fact that you are also born on the 15th, according to Isabel Hickey we like to make others happy🎂🎂🎂🎂. Blessed love.#1804#Ayiti#ToutMounseMoun#AbolishCPS#AbolishPoverty#DefundFosterCare#ProChoice#RawVeganforLife#HRES40NOW#220YearsFree#FreeAyiti#NoNewOccuationofAyiti#BwaKale🌄🌅🌇☀🌞

[@maryannhergenrother3156]

So meaningful. At 72, i find myself needing the kind of help i have actively worked to give women and girls for close to 50 yrs. From creating safe houses and shelters for women, running schools of liberation and empowerment for girls at risk, teaching how to identify and eliminate race and gender-based barriers to the best education for all, lobbying for equal access for lesbians and gay folks, to working directly w women in prison and supporting them upon release, to facilitating restorative justice healing circles in schools, courts and community, my life has bern abt learning, listening, sharing, loving, and fighting back. I would give anything to talk to someone in Melinda’s circle abt the evolution of this ordinary life of a single mother surviving by working alongside women impacted by systems designed to keep women in their place. I hope you will reach out to me.

[@francoismutombo9467]

After I finished the prayer through night in church, I went to put gasoline in my car. Then I saw a lady she were looking for her purse. She couldn’t find it & I was about to live to mind my business. The spirit allows me to go through her. I asked her are you alright & what are you looking for she said: her purse that she could find. I asked her I will put gaze in her car she refuses then I insist she said ok. I star talking to her to motivate her on what going on in her life. I told her, o don’t want to hear your story however I want to give you advice to teust God & yourself . Don’t relate your story to me. And we separate after talking to her. She said this is the word she were looking for.

[@LydiaRel]

So we just gonna forget the crimes against humanity committed by you and your ex husband ?

[@serpilcr]

❤❤❤❤

[@AileenSzkwarek]

Hi I like Godwinks - my friend and I came up with Godincidence ( a take on coincidence )

[@zuzilezungu5899]

In my experience, a person doesn't suffer from dementia, I felt that it is only the loved ones 😢

[@spartanboxing1]

Melinda, it's me, David and I had emailed Bill Gates about his luggable IBM compatible computer clone that he used for the IBM contract. I was 10 years old when I assembled the luggable while visiting a computer store to load up the latest computer games. This was in 1980, Bixby Knolls, California. The computer store is now an autistic center, and the building has always been owned by Warren Buffet. I was elbowed out of the way by Steve Wozniak after I assembled it when he couldn't. I never activated the micro server because those mature men, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Bill Gates, made me feel less than. The truth will come out because the sophwaer I write is the way IBM scientists envisioned for the "money box" IBM scientists first called the microcomputer.

[@lisakillz1853]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@audiannichealing]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@CarlaMills]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@joyceeasmon636]

🎉🎉🎉

[@DarleneMaye]

Go Reeree💋

[@chardelraconner7324]

where were we

[@MarvinHicks-dd7qb]

💜💜💜💜💜

[@mickeyfly6706]

Who are you voting for is my question

[@maryferr333]

In still don't know what I want to do when I grow up at 63 lol embrace ❤

[@rosemariemontier]

Invite some women from the work class turning 60 to see what they have to say considering they are not a billionaire.

[@maroonrebel]

Jah & Jahes love. Great idea!

[@markmanning6542]

"Moments that make us"😂 Sitting around doing nothing, passing gas from your pie holes. Didn't and couldn't build a single item in that comfortable room that they completely take for granted.😂😂😂

[@thomaselmore1155]

Funny, talking about "young women and boys" in the clip. Ok

[@Ralph-dt5gs]

Combined with that word, which they misused constantly stressed excessively. It screams duality.

[@MarvinHicks-dd7qb]

💎💎💎💎💎

[@Ralph-dt5gs]

Correct!...they are some cold hearted creatures.

[@pleasebeinteresting]

💁‍♂️💭She kept the Gates last name , that’s called marketing.

[@SeanPhillips-q5b]

It may be marketing but that name is her kids last name as well

[@pleasebeinteresting]

🤷‍♂️ So what was Princes Diana’s maiden name ? Exactly 👍

[@pleasebeinteresting]

It’s a b.s. move to not go back to your maiden name for someone so concerned about woman’s equality. What potential man wants to deal with a women keeping their ex-husband’s last name

[@SeanPhillips-q5b]

It just makes sense to me to keep every name in order with the Gates family from parents to kids but to answer your question I have no clue on what princess Diana maiden name is

[@SeanPhillips-q5b]

And she's not re-married yet so she's good with keeping the last name Gates

[@karenhill9495]

They never allowed their children to have any immunizations .

[@markmanning6542]

But infant sacrifice isn't practiced anymore, said the woman with 5 abortions. Child sacrifice doesn't happen either, said the 3 time divorced single woman with 3 children, 1 dead, 1 in juvenile detention and 1 in state custody being handed around the foster care system.

[@Flower_hoarder]

🌹

[@maryhe2053]

Melinda French Gates is the most beautiful woman in the world

[@hjordan2322]

All the people falling for her bullshit

[@MarvinHicks-dd7qb]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@chilldude2242]

Here to say stop with all the ads. Rich people are so annoying.

[@Quaferro]

So this chick divorced Bill Gates, and suddenly she has a show 😂

[@Ralph-dt5gs]

*dude

[@user-fn7en2tw7h]

Omg, so now I know who she rubs shoulders with. Ava knows who her masters are. Trying to make this witch seem human is mental. Melinda is as evil as they come but glad to know she and Ava have you all fooled, 😂

[@Ralph-dt5gs]

And now a wealthy dude after divorce from you know who.

[@NikhilTeotia-rl1fs]

Help me 🙏😭😭

[@danajthaha6170]

Ooooooo India says you hurt sooooooo many kids . They will never walk cuz of you and Bill. Shame

[@David-n5g8e]

Hello legend s👌🥰 Melinda Gates?

[@el_crepper_tormenta4724]

Go 😊

[@trishasmith3286]

Ava

[@aquagrl81]

Im confused 🤔, gotta keep your head on a swivel, forked tongue...

[@abelgonzalez158]

Melinda knew about her husband and his crimes and benefitted for years! YOU ARE NO INNOCENT MELINDA!! WE SEE YOU

[@danielleb.4088]

Jesus Christ loves you all ❤️. If you don't know him already you ought to try him ❤️

[@Sandux930]

Blood money nepotism

[@SuperMattural]

Look at these old cows moo

[@Ralph-dt5gs]

You mean bulls?