Neon has released a new teaser trailer for celebrated filmmaker Ava Duvernay’s new film, Origin. The film stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Niecy Nash-Betts, Nick Offerman, and Blair Underwood, and is set to be unveiled at Venice and Toronto this month.
Duvernay is the first African-American woman director in competition in Venice Film Festival’s eighty-year history, where the film gets its world premiere.
DuVernay wrote, produced and directed Origin, which is inspired by the remarkable life and work of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson as she pens her seminal book, Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.
While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time.
The work gets a big TIFF debut on 11th September, too.
Release date TBC on this one but here’s the first look teaser.
