There is a whole host of movie biopics at the multiplex this holiday season, from the likes of
Stephen Hawking in
The Theory of Everything, to
Louie Zamperini in
Unbroken and
Alan Turing in
The Imitation Game, but one film stands out as being more relevant and timely than ever, and that is
Ava DuVernay's biopic
Selma, about civil rights leader,
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rather than chronicling the inspirational activist's life in full, the film cleverly focuses on the three-month period in 1965 when he led the civil rights marches from
Selma to the
Alabama state capital of
Montgomery, to help quicken the passage of
President Johnson's Voting Rights Act.
The portrait billboard version for
Selma was first spied on November 26 above
Hollywood & Highland, whilst the landscape version was snapped along
La Brea Avenue on December 21, 2014.
This film reminds us that
'one dream can change a world', but also shows that in this day and age there is still so much work to do overcome injustice and inequality.
UPDATED: In addition here's also a giant-sized movie billboard for
Selma, snapped on the side of the
Figueroa Hotel in
Downtown L.A. on December 29, 2014.
Plus here's a much better look at the landscape billboard along
Santa Monica Boulevard in
West L.A. on a clearer January 3, 2015.
UPDATED: Here's a new creative for the
Oscar-nominated
Selma snapped along
Ventura Boulevard in
Studio City on September 7, 2015.
This
Epix billboard features
David Oyelowo as
Martin Luther King, Jr. face on rather than from behind.
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