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	Podcast:		Katie Couric
	Episode:		Ava Duvernay’s New Film Origin Reaches Beyond the Theater
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		01:00:01
	Publish Date:		2024-01-04 08:00:00
	Description:		Ava DuVernay’s newest film, Origin, breaks a lot of molds. The book on which it’s based, Caste, grapples with some of the deepest inequalities in our world today, and was famously deemed unadaptable into a film. Not to mention DuVernay came to the adaptation as the industry entered one of its biggest slumps in recent memory. Not one to be dissuaded, DuVernay found a way to adapt this seminal book and to fund it outside of the typical studio-or-streamer model for making a movie. The result is a sweeping mosaic of personal stories, including Isabelle Wilkerson’s own, that chronicle how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. The adaptation speaks for itself: there were many tears in the audience of this Q&A, taped live at Art Basel in Miami, one of the partners in a revolutionary new funding model that made the project possible. This incredible movie and the innovation that underpins its production have a lot to teach about new ways to approach some of the most intractable problems of our time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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