"Destination: Planet Negro," by Kevin Willmott / USA / 2013 / 100mins / Comedy, Sci-fi / English
Presented in collaboration with Reel Harlem Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival 2016.
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America—leave the planet and populate Mars. A three-person crew embarks on a journey through space that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America.
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Kevin Willmott
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