It's been a theme in Hollywood for years, from "Imitation of Life," to "The Human Stain." And off-screen, the subject of "passing" – crossing the color line – is just as complex. "The world perceives ...

Passing may be a black-and-white film, but the story it tells is anything but. Based on the 1929 fiction novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, Passing introduces audiences to recently reunited ...

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Rebecca Hall made her directorial debut with the ...

Hall’s directing debut stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as friends who are both ‘passing’ for what they are not in an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Rebecca Hall makes her directing debut ...

Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming Mirror Girls, a novel about sisterhood and passing. As a light-skinned Black woman, I have purposefully passed for white only once in my life. Which is ...

Being a mixture of cultures is something I was always taught to be proud of. But being mixed-race frequently leads to people telling you what they think you are, rather than how you actually identify.