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Origin is a 2023 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
Origin: Directed by Ava DuVernay. With Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Emily Yancy. The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
Jan 16, 2024 · 5 min read. Ava DuVernay is an inquisitive filmmaker, curious about social structures and collective grief. Her newest picture, the ambitious investigative film, “Origin,” has a scene that blends DuVernay’s interests with her rigor.
Dec 7, 2023 · Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” is as audacious as it is ambitious. At its core, it concerns an intellectual argument about history and hierarchies of power, but it’s also about the fraught process of...
Jan 22, 2024 · The US director speaks about her hard-hitting new film exploring how prejudice has thrived around the world – and why she struggles with questions about its brutal scenes.
Sep 1, 2023 · Inside Ava DuVernay’s Origin, a Global Investigation With a Personal Touch. The Selma filmmaker adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 bestseller Caste, but centers her film on the writer’s own journey....
Sep 19, 2023 · With 'Origin,' director Ava DuVernay looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to frame the conversation about segregation and inequality in America.
Jan 5, 2024 · Ava DuVernay helmed an epic film on social hierarchies that spans centuries and continents to show how the killing of Trayvon Martin, Indian castes and the Holocaust are all connected.
Dec 8, 2023 · In Ellis-Taylor’s affecting portrait of a professional woman looking for answers through the prism of work, one is inclined to imagine DuVernay, who wrote the screenplay, making “Origin” as an...
Sep 6, 2023 · Ava DuVernay's 'Origin,' starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Jon Bernthal, looks at the story behind Isabel Wilkerson's theory of American racism.
