Origin (with panel discussion)
To be followed by a panel discussion led by Dr. Sonja Thomas, Colby College Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
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.
After the screening, Dr. Sonja Thomas, Colby College Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, will lead a panel discussion featuring Vishal Jamkar, a Ph.D. candidate at Humphrey School of Public Affairs and co-founder of the Anti-caste Collective, Yashica Dutt, a leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and award-winning author of Coming Out as Dalit, and Paul Carrion, a United States Army veteran and Philadelphia attorney with the law firm of Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy and Kramer, who serves as Vice Chair of the Young Lawyers Division and Co-Chair of the Military Affairs Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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.
After the screening, Dr. Sonja Thomas, Colby College Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, will lead a panel discussion featuring Vishal Jamkar, a Ph.D. candidate at Humphrey School of Public Affairs and co-founder of the Anti-caste Collective, Yashica Dutt, a leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and award-winning author of Coming Out as Dalit, and Paul Carrion, a United States Army veteran and Philadelphia attorney with the law firm of Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy and Kramer, who serves as Vice Chair of the Young Lawyers Division and Co-Chair of the Military Affairs Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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 >
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