Her last feature film, Zero Dark Thirty, received five Oscar nominations including best picture and best actress for Jessica Chastain.
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the riots, the film is aiming to open sometime in 2017.
The film explores “systemic racism”, according to a statement released by Annapurna.
As for Bigelow, she last directed Last Days in 2014, a short film about elephant poaching.
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