{"id":62688,"date":"2022-01-19T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62688"},"modified":"2022-01-19T03:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:09:25","slug":"passing-a-film-discussion-with-director-writer-rebecca-hall-and-actresses-tessa-thompson-and-ruth-negga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62688","title":{"rendered":"Passing: A Film Discussion with Director\/Writer Rebecca Hall and Actresses Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/events\/passing-film-discussion-directorwriter-rebecca-hall-and-actresses-tessa-thompson-and-ruth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Passing: A Film Discussion with Director\/Writer Rebecca Hall and Actresses Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, 2022-01-13 19:00-19:40 EST (Local Time); (Friday, 2022-01-14, 00:00-00:40Z)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QkxpVxJPEaY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join us in the New Year for a virtual discussion with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Passing<\/em><\/a> screenwriter and director <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Hall<\/a>, alongside actresses <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tessa_Thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Negga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruth Negga<\/a>. Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nella Larsen\u2019s novel of the same name<\/a>, Hall\u2019s directorial debut explores not just racial identity but gender, class, the responsibilities of motherhood and the performance of femininity from the perspective of two Black women who choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>. For Rebecca Hall, creating <em>Passing<\/em> was a deeply personal journey, stemming from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovery of her own family history<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NMAAHC<\/a> Curator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aaron-bryant-a05740a5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Bryant<\/a> will moderate the discussion. This program will be pre-recorded, and there will be no live Q &amp; A. <em>Passing<\/em> is available now on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QkxpVxJPEaY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in the New Year for a virtual discussion with Netflix film &#8220;Passing&#8221; screenwriter and director Rebecca Hall, alongside actresses Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13743,13,8,6462,20,842,25],"tags":[32688,32686,29469,32687,827,19672],"class_list":["post-62688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-aaron-bryant","tag-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-2","tag-netflix","tag-nmaahc","tag-ruth-negga","tag-tessa-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62814,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688\/revisions\/62814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}