Kevin Willmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas and a filmmaker known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States Of America and The Only Good Indian. His film Destination Planet Negro screened at The St. Louis International Film Festival in 2013. Read my interview with Kevin Wilmott from 2013 Here.
C.S.A.: The Confederate States Of America
Kevin will be back at this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival to teach a Master Class on Narrative Screenwriting for Independent film on Saturday November 12th at 1pm. This is a Free event and takes place at Washington University’s West Campus Library (7425 Forsyth Blvd. Basement, 7425 Forsyth Blvd. Basement).
Destination Planet Negro
Filmmaker Kevin Willmott provides an overview of screenwriting, with an emphasis on problem-solving, low-budget filmmaking, and understanding how studio writing works. The master class serves as an opportunity both...
C.S.A.: The Confederate States Of America
Kevin will be back at this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival to teach a Master Class on Narrative Screenwriting for Independent film on Saturday November 12th at 1pm. This is a Free event and takes place at Washington University’s West Campus Library (7425 Forsyth Blvd. Basement, 7425 Forsyth Blvd. Basement).
Destination Planet Negro
Filmmaker Kevin Willmott provides an overview of screenwriting, with an emphasis on problem-solving, low-budget filmmaking, and understanding how studio writing works. The master class serves as an opportunity both...
- 11/9/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Review by Sam Moffitt
Destination Planet Negro is a pretty good satire on race relations and a nice parody of 50s science fiction space movies. Starting in the 1930s and in black and white leaders of the Negro, or Colored community, come up with a plan to get away from troublesome white people. Namely go by rocket ship to Mars, an idea taken directly from Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. A Negro physicist, his daughter and a Colored pilot blast off in the rocket ship, powered by fuel made from peanuts and sweet potatoes by a hilarious George Washington Carver. Along for the ride is a jive talking robot named Strom who steals every scene he’s in.
Instead of Mars they go through a time warp and land in the present day in America and have to learn to deal with hip hop culture, texting and a Black President,...
Destination Planet Negro is a pretty good satire on race relations and a nice parody of 50s science fiction space movies. Starting in the 1930s and in black and white leaders of the Negro, or Colored community, come up with a plan to get away from troublesome white people. Namely go by rocket ship to Mars, an idea taken directly from Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. A Negro physicist, his daughter and a Colored pilot blast off in the rocket ship, powered by fuel made from peanuts and sweet potatoes by a hilarious George Washington Carver. Along for the ride is a jive talking robot named Strom who steals every scene he’s in.
Instead of Mars they go through a time warp and land in the present day in America and have to learn to deal with hip hop culture, texting and a Black President,...
- 11/15/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kevin Willmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas and a filmmaker known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States Of America and The Only Good Indian. His newest film, in which he costars, is called Destination Planet Negro.
Destination Planet Negro made its premiere last winter, and is continuing to travel the film festival circuit, including a screening this Saturday as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff). Wamg contributing writer Sam Moffitt describes Destination Planet Negro as “that rare comedy that actually gets funnier as it goes along. The rocket ship and especially the hardware inside are spot on, beautifully done. Obviously done on a low budget, this is great stuff” (look for Sam’s complete review here at Wamg on Friday)
Destination Planet Negro deftly mimics low-budget 1950s sci-fi to make some comically...
Destination Planet Negro made its premiere last winter, and is continuing to travel the film festival circuit, including a screening this Saturday as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff). Wamg contributing writer Sam Moffitt describes Destination Planet Negro as “that rare comedy that actually gets funnier as it goes along. The rocket ship and especially the hardware inside are spot on, beautifully done. Obviously done on a low budget, this is great stuff” (look for Sam’s complete review here at Wamg on Friday)
Destination Planet Negro deftly mimics low-budget 1950s sci-fi to make some comically...
- 11/14/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's called Destination Planet Negro by writer, director and co-star Kevin Willmott (who previously made the satirical C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and teaches filmmaking at the University of Kansas). It made its premiere in February, and is continuing to travel the film festival circuit. It's a genuinely laugh out loud, funny, and very clever spoof that, at times, approaches the manic heights of In Living Color during its heyday.The premise itself is very original: a group of black leaders, including even W.E.B DuBois, during the 1930’s, gather together for a secret meeting to discuss the “Negro Problem” in America. They decide that the only real solution is for black...
- 6/4/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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