Ava DuVernay’s next film will honor late rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle. She’s set to direct a feature-length documentary about him for Netflix, Deadline confirms. “A co-production between DuVernay’s ARRAY banner and Hussle’s Marathon Films, the project was secured by Netflix after an intense bidding war hosted recently by CAA for its ‘When They See Us’ client.” The streamer reportedly snagged the project for “high eight figures to beat out some deep-pocketed contenders.”

DuVernay will also produce the as-yet untitled doc. According to the source, Hussle’s estate asked DuVernay to board the project “based on their admiration for her work on the likes of ’13th’ and ‘When They See Us.'”

Hussle was shot multiple times outside his store in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019, and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. He was 33. The multi-hyphenate’s death sparked an “outpouring from the City of Angels for an artist and activist many saw as just emerging into his own despite already achieving commercial and critical success,” Deadline details. “In just the past few weeks, Nipsey was honored at the Grammy Awards … in a tribute introduced at the Staples Center and on CBS by DuVernay herself.”

This project will mark DuVernay’s first documentary since 2016’s “13th,” her Oscar-nominated exploration of the direct links between slavery and mass incarceration. That film is also a Netflix title, as is her Emmy-winning Exonerated Five miniseries “When They See Us.”

Also on DuVernay’s slate are a TNT series dubbed “a modern-day ‘Norma Rae'”; “DMZ,” an HBO Max pilot inspired by the Vertigo comic of the same name, starring Rosario Dawson; and DC blockbuster “The New Gods,” which she’ll direct and co-write. Her new OWN series, romantic anthology “Cherish the Day,” premieres tonight. Its set boasts full gender parity.

DuVernay’s other credits include “Queen Sugar,” “Selma,” and “A Wrinkle in Time.” She became the first woman of color to direct a $100 million-plus live-action film with the latter.