The 'Selma' filmmaker adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 bestseller 'Caste', but centers her film on the writer’s own journey.
would require her to tell a story that spanned generations and continents, filming in the US, Germany, and India. Starring Academy Award nomineewould be an ambitious undertaking for DuVernay, who made the film independently in order to tell the story on her own terms. “It was an adventure unlike anything that I could imagine having,” DuVernay tellswhich will have its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 6.
When DuVernay first reached out to Wilkerson, the author thought DuVernay wanted to make a documentary like she had withBut DuVernay pitched her on the idea of centering the film on her own journey in actually writing the book, which would require that her personal life become a part of the story.
Shortly before she began work on the book, Wilkerson lost both her husband and her mother; DuVernay captures her grief onscreen in symbolic and tactile ways that make the film feel deeply personal. “Well, I could only tap into my own experiences with grief,” says DuVernay. “What I rendered was what it felt like to me, just using my own personal experiences.”plays her husband, Brett Kelly Hamilton; the actor and DuVernay first met for a long dinner in Savannah, Georgia.
The director went on a journey similar to Wilkerson’s, traveling to Berlin and Delhi to find details about some of the people who are mentioned inThat includes a Nazi man and a Jewish woman who fell in love, and the African American researchers Allison and Elizabeth Davis, who wrote the book“To be able to dive deeper into these seeds that Isabel planted, to research them further, and to bring them to life was a big task, and it was a beautiful task,” she says.
DuVernay forged her own path making this film, securing independent financing with her producing partner,and shooting for just 37 days across three countries. “Not doing it wasn’t an option. Altering it to fit into a studio box wasn’t an option. I understood that we were going to have to go back to our indie roots,” says DuVernay.will be the first film by an African American woman to ever play in competition at Venice, and DuVernay is well aware of the weight of that history.
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