Herbert Simon Family Foundation has underwritten 10 screenings of ORIGIN across three days at Landmark Art Cinema Keystone and AMC Castleton in Indianapolis.

At the conclusion of each free screening, Soul Focused Group will facilitate a post-show discussion for the audience.

Screening Times:

• Sunday, 1/28 - 1:00p (AMC Castleton)

• Sunday, 1/28 - 7:15p (Landmark Art Cinema Keystone, official Indianapolis premiere)

• Monday, 1/29 - 11:00am (AMC Castleton)

• Monday, 1/29 - 12:30pm (Landmark Art Cinema Keystone)

• Monday, 1/29 - 6:00pm (AMC Castleton)

• Monday, 1/29 - 7:15pm (Landmark Art Cinema Keystone)

• Tuesday, 1/30 - 11:00am (AMC Castleton)

• Tuesday, 1/30 - 12:30pm (Landmark Art Cinema Keystone)

• Tuesday, 1/30 - 6:00pm (AMC Castleton)

• Tuesday, 1/30 - 7:15pm (Landmark Art Cinema Keystone)

ABOUT ORIGIN

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay has written, directed, and produced a feature film inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson's critically acclaimed book "CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents." Ava's multiple-story structure examines the unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how our lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions dating back generations.

ORIGIN traverses the steep terrain of racial and social hierarchy while chronicling an intimate journey of familial love and loss. DuVernay infuses Wilkerson's historical and cultural anecdotes, theories, and examples from within the book by exploring the author's spirituality and faith in a tale of romance and reckoning. Wilkerson herself is the main character, and we track her writing process in confronting and contextualizing the phenomenon of caste for contemporary readers. The character of "Isabel" is deeply entrenched in research and writing that takes her worldwide. As she travels, the film expands with dynamic layers of storytelling that delves audiences into a globe-trotting, time-hopping philosophical adventure. CASTE zips from modern-day America to feudal India to Nazi Germany to many places and spaces in between, weaving an emotional and revelatory narrative tapestry.

The film tells the story of the unquantifiable consequences of caste alongside the life-altering milestones of Wilkerson's journey while writing the book. It was a time marked by the deaths of three of her closest loved ones and the indescribable grief that followed. The film asks viewers to challenge their beliefs about their place in the world and in relationship to others while mirroring the questions that an examination of caste demands of the larger society.