From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN explores the mystery of history, the wonders of romance, and a fight for our future. While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
Join us for a special Reclaim The Frame preview screening as we dissect the themes of Origin.
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This as an accessible screening with live captioning for the panel.
The screening at Duke's at Komedia will be followed by panel hosted by Impact Producer Rui Jin and featuring AFLO. the poet and Dr Anusree Biswas Sasidharan.
AFLO. the poet (she/they) is an award-winning Brighton-based spoken word artist, activist and academic who embraces creative expression to disrupt the status quo and inspire social change. AFLO. uses poetry as a vehicle to address hard-hitting topics, primarily focusing her work on colonialism, racism and mental health. AFLO. has shared her work at various events, protests and festivals across the country, and is currently an in-house artist at Brighton Dome. Outside of poetry, AFLO. is pursuing a PhD, and is co-founder and trustee of Brighton's Black Anti-Racism Community Organisation (BARCO)
Dr Anusree Biswas Sasidharan, director of Bridging Change. Standing invitee Brighton & Hove City Council's Policy and Resources committee. Safeguarding programme advisor and research equalities consultant at the Local Government Association
Following the screening at FACT we will have a conversation with Anne Louise Kershaw of Reclaim the Frame with Jimi Jagne and the audience.
Jimi Jagne is a community activist and campaigner from Liverpool 8. He has worked extensively around the subject of the 1981 Toxteth uprising, and highlighting Liverpool’s long anti-racism history writing articles, appearing on TV and in documentaries on the subject, as well as much public speaking. He is co-author of ‘1981: Black Liverpool Past And Present’ [Serendipity Institute for Black Arts & Heritage, 2022], with Stephen Small, Professor in African American Studies at University of California – Berkeley.
