Based on the true life and book by Isabel Wilkerson, one woman experiences living and learning the hardest truths surrounding racism’s painful global history. Directed by Ava DuVernay, Origin comes to streaming on June 10.
Isabel Wilkerson is author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Wilkerson was the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper, interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, and became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She also taught at Emory, Princeton, Northwestern, and Boston University.
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Origin |
Release: 2023-12-08Genre: DramaDuration: 141 minsBudget: $ 38,000,000 | |
OverviewWhile investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience. |