Dunye's work has been influential in both Black and LGBTQ filmmaking spheres. Ava DuVernay, a pioneer of black female filmmakers, became the first black woman to win the US Dramatic Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. She received an Oscar nomination for her documentary "13th (2016)", and has also made history as the first black woman director to be nominated for a Golden Globe. DuVernay continued her career in filmmaking with "A Wrinkle in Time", released in 2018 with an estimated budget surpassing $100 million, making DuVernay the first black female to direct a live-action film with a budget of that size. She is set to direct "New Gods", a Warner Bros. and DC Comics film, in 2019. Mati Diop, a French-Senegalese director was the first black female filmmaker to be included in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival competition, in 2019. Her film Atlantics was up for the Palme d'Or, the top honor of the Cannes competition. Ewen Spencer  Ewen Spencer (born 1971) is a British photographer and filmmaker based in Brighton, England. His photography is primarily of youth and subcultures.[2][3]  He began his career working for style, music and culture magazines "The Face" and "Sleazenation" and has since transplanted himself into groups of young people and musicians to form numerous personal projects, as well as making films for Massive Attack , The Streets and The Charlatans and undertaking commercial work. His photography series have included "Open Mic, UKG and Kick over the statues".[4]  He has self-published a number of photobooks including a series of zines called Guapamente. Spencer studied Editorial Photography under photographers Paul Reas and Mark Power at the School of Art and Design at the University of Brighton.[5]  He graduated in 1997. In 1999 he worked photographing nightlife, such as the UK garage scene, for fashion and lifestyle magazine "Sleazenation".[1]   Between 2001 and 2005 Spencer photographed the American rock band The White Stripes.[6][7][8] Initially for the NME he photographed shows from their first UK tour onwards, including candid backstage photographs.[8][9] In 2010 he self-published "Three's a Crowd,"[6]documenting the early stages of the band's rise to popularity.[10]   In 2002 photographer Martin Parr tipped Spencer as the most promising newcomer of that year.[10]  