As a writer, director, and professor of film at the University of Kansas, filmmaker Kevin Willmott has had a long and fruitful career.
Willmott’s storytelling focus often centers on the Black experience in the United States and often from a historical and social perspective. “C.S.A The Confederate States of America” is a mockumentary about an alternate U.S.
history, wherein the Confederacy won the American Civil War. “Jayhawkers” is a sports drama that follows the life of Wilt Chamberlain, and the 1956 Kansas Jayhawks basketball team, and “Destination Planet Negro” is a comedic sci-fi fantasy about African-American leaders in 1939 who respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars.
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