The film about Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson hit theaters today.
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With the impending election looming large and tensions around the globe at a fever pitch, there’s never been a better time for art like this to show up and encourage people to engage with it, even if they think its themes do not apply to them.
“What we’re talking about is that you can’t be in your own separate corners and not engage in discourse about the things that affect us both,” adds DuVernay. “And so in order to do that, you have to share the film, you have to share the information and you have to talk to one another. So that’s a big part of what we’re thinking about. And we know that the film will find its way into those spaces, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure of it.”
“Origin” is in select theaters now.
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