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even longer just interviews with isabelle wilkerson. what did you learn from researching this film, that is going to stay with you? >> i knew nothing about cast, i knew nothing about things like the fact that not see lawyers studied american race laws, in order to create a blueprint for holocaust particles. i knew nothing about manual scavenging in india, and what -- people endured there, and across the diaspora. there is so much i didn't know, and so many interconnections and connective tissue that i hope people are as enlightened as i was in reading isabelle's book. >> i can say the same for me, as somebody watched it, i learned a lot of watching this movie. a bit different, thank you so much, i know you've been all over the place, so we greatly appreciate your time, and your insights this evening. thank you. origin also is a cross select theaters this friday, make sure to catch it, you do not want to miss it. more ayman, after the break. yman, after the break.
origin we've seen from the past and present, as it tells the story of isabelle researching and writing the book, and it's central theme, the global phenomenon of cast systems, and how it has been historically used as a tool of oppression by world powers. joining me now is the writer, director, and producer of origins, ava duvernay. eva, it is great to see you, thank you so much for making time for us. this was an absolutely brilliant movie as we just saw in that clip, they're a masterpiece. and i wanted to actually start by asking you, broadly speaking, about the way you went about making this film. it was shot across three continents in just 37 days, it is based on a book that is nearly 500 pages. how did you even find a narrative arc to bring this film to life? what was the elevator pitch for this? >> right, well there was no elevator pitch, because you can't take a picture to a studio and say hey guys, i want to make a movie about a cast, it doesn't go over very well. so we just didn't do, that we
raised the money independently through philanthropic organizations, through like-minded organizations and individuals. everyone from ford foundation to -- , melinda gates, the nba star chris paul, people who came to gather, wanting to change the way we make, movies, and what assumes can be about. and so it was an independent effort, and the adaptation was one that i was kind of obsessed with, i wanted to figure out the way that we get this anthropological thesis into, inaccessible form, because i found more people need to know about this. >> yeah, i guess the question is why? the film touches on several themes, racism, antisemitism of course as you said, the cast system. why did you see this as a story that need to be told now? >> well, the book doesn't actually touch on several themes, its thesis is that all of those isms live on top of cast, that passed is the origin, the root of all of the isms,
>> soon after david's arrest, police learned from one of his coworkers that he had the bracelet all along. >> david said that he had a bracelet that he had taken to a pawn shop, and he thought the guy was trying to rip him off. >> it is trying to hawk, it make a few bucks? >> make money. >> i spoke to his cover-up, his involvement. >> sure, absolutely. and he lied to police in the beginning and saying he didn't know where the bracelet was. >> still, one piece of the puzzle didn't fit the prosecution's theory, that saturday phone call made from nici cellphones to the 24 hour fitness gym, where david worked. >> this is evidence that -- >> she's alive. >> using telephone company records, prosecutors argued the origin of the call could be traced to within a few blocks of the gym, where it was received. >> what you're saying is there's a 90 to 95% probability that the phone was in this red
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middle of a blizzard. >> the elements are -- all break whatever i need to. >> i don't even know what negative 15 is. tonight, the defendant in the over hurled election trial takes a break from the courtroom to head to the iowa caucuses. then, -- >> every day, mike johnson gets closer and closer to this deal, brings me closer and closer to vacating the chair. >> brand-new house speaker already on the outs of the maga caucus, as democrats demand an accounting of the trump presidency. you don't care about the principle that our governmental leaders should not be on the tape from foreign governments. that's outrageous. >> congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, plus -- >> i was hoping that this film could spark conversation, the part of a conversation that we should be having in this country, this year, right now. director ava duvernay, on her brand-new film, origin. all in starts right now. >> good evening, from new york,
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