First Look Images to Ava DuVernay’s Origin, Starring Aunjanue Ellis
New images have emerged online (via Vanity Fair) for Ava DuVernay’s Origin, which will have its World Premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. DuVernay is making history as the first African American woman in the competition selection.
Origin, directed by DuVernay from a screenplay she co-wrote with Isabel Wilkerson, is an adaptation of Wilkerson’s seminal, Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
The text carries a strong philosophical weight as it describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a rigid caste system of arbitrary hierarchies that stratify society and still divide us today.
The film stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Connie Nielsen, Niecy Nash-Betts, Audra McDonald, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Blair Underwood, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Finn Wittrock, Myles Frost, Victoria Pedretti, Isha Blaaker, Donna Mills, Leonardo Ham, and Gisssette Valentin.
