Origin
Followed by a discussion with Dr. Sonja Thomas, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colby College.
Join the Maine Film Center and Colby College for a special screening of Ava DuVernay’s Origin, based on Isabel Wilkerson’s celebrated book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Rather than a documentary, Origin takes provocative and fascinating history and turns it into an imaginative and engrossing drama, built on an unforgettable central performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel (Ellis-Taylor) sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery that expands our understanding of racism and other ideologies that divide us. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time. “Led by a beautiful performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, writer-director Ava DuVernay’s fact-based Origin is a profoundly moving and humanistic movie that explores a range of complex issues about race and culture through the lens of a woman coping with loss and grief"—Karen Gordon, Original-Cin.
This event is co-sponsored by the Provost's Initiative on Caste at Colby College and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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Join the Maine Film Center and Colby College for a special screening of Ava DuVernay’s Origin, based on Isabel Wilkerson’s celebrated book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Rather than a documentary, Origin takes provocative and fascinating history and turns it into an imaginative and engrossing drama, built on an unforgettable central performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel (Ellis-Taylor) sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery that expands our understanding of racism and other ideologies that divide us. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time. “Led by a beautiful performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, writer-director Ava DuVernay’s fact-based Origin is a profoundly moving and humanistic movie that explores a range of complex issues about race and culture through the lens of a woman coping with loss and grief"—Karen Gordon, Original-Cin.
This event is co-sponsored by the Provost's Initiative on Caste at Colby College and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
WATCH TRAILER >