Brown Girl Begins
| Brown Girl Begins | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sharon Lewis |
| Written by | Sharon Lewis |
| Based on | Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson |
| Produced by | Vince Buda Sharon Lewis Floyd Kane Jenn Paul |
| Starring | Mouna Traoré Emmanuel Kabongo Nigel Shawn Williams Shakura S'Aida Rachael Crawford Measha Brueggergosman |
| Cinematography | Marc Forand |
| Edited by | Ben Lawrence Richard Mandin |
| Music by | Aaron Ferrera |
Production company | Urbansoul |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Brown Girl Begins is a 2017 Canadian science fiction film, directed by Sharon Lewis.
The film was inspired by Nalo Hopkinson's 1998 novel Brown Girl in the Ring, although for budgetary reasons Lewis opted to write and film a prequel story rather than literally adapting the novel itself.