“Destination: Planet Negro!” Film Screening and Discussion with Film Maker Kevin Willmott
Monday, April 2nd at 6pm
Wildcat Chamber, Student Union
In 1939, African American leaders respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars. The three person crew blasts off, but time travel instead, arriving in present-day America revealing much about race today.
Kevin Willmott is an American film director and screenwriter, as well as a professor of film at the University of Kansas. He is known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing “Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” and “Bunker Hill.” His “The Only Good Indian” (2009) was a feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation that took place.