Passing

Passing (2021)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

2021-10-27

Country

Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Film4 Productions, Gamechanger Films, Significant Productions, Sweet Tomato Films, Hungry Bull Productions, XRM Media, Picture Films, AUM Creative, TGCK Partners, Flat Five Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Website

https://www.netflix.com/title/81424320

Director

Rebecca Hall

Actors

Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Justus Davis Graham, Ethan Barrett, Ashley Ware Jenkins
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Scenario

Producer

Forest Whitaker, Rebecca Hall, Margot Hand, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Oren Moverman, Arcadiy Golubovich, Erika Hampson, Michael Y. Chow, Ali Jazayeri, Joseph Restaino

Operator

Eduard Grau

Composer

Devonté Hynes

Artist

Audition

Laura Rosenthal, Kim Ostroy

Editing

Sabine Hoffman
All team (54)

• The novel by Nella Larsen, based on which this film was made, was written in 1929. The title of the film in English ("Passing") contains a reference to African Americans with a light enough skin color to be mistaken for white.
• Director and screenwriter Rebecca Hall dreamed of making this film because of the mystery surrounding the identity of her own maternal grandfather. Her mother knew almost nothing about him because he died when she was very young, but rumors circulated that he had either Native American or African blood. Hall managed to find out that he was African.
• It took Rebecca Hall 10 years to work on the screenplay. She wrote the first draft in 10 days, and spent the rest of the time revising and adding to it.