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.                

Origin is a sincere, passionate, and excellently acted film that takes us on a discovery, with wonder, of fascinating historical situations. - Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times

In her fictionalized approach DuVernay exerts a level of craft, care and personalization that achieves something the most thoughtful and thorough non-fiction filmmaking approaches struggle to. - Melanie McFarland, Salon.com