BAFTA Award-winning writer-director Ava DuVernay’s first feature-length film since 2018, Origin is a biographical drama that centers on Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), a real-life author and journalist who is perhaps best-known for writing The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Although DuVernay’s last feature, A Wrinkle in Time, saw the filmmaker adapting a best-selling fantasy novel, DuVernay is no stranger to translating someone’s life story to the silver screen. Selma, the director’s 2014 Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., was a breakout film.
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