Digital HD and VOD Release Date: June 10, 2016
Studio: Candy Factory Films
The satirical science fiction adventure with Destination: Planet Negro was written and directed by Kevin Willmott, co-writer of Spike Lee’s Chi-raq and director of the award-winning mockumentary CSA: The Confederate States of America. Willmott also stars in this new comedy, which will be available on all leading platforms.
It’s 1939 and black leaders W.E.B. DuBois and George Washington Carver decide that segregated America is no place for African Americans, so they devise a secret plot to solve the “Negro Problem” by way of a rocket ship to Mars. Carrying an improbable crew of three, the spacecraft vaults into a time warp, landing its brave scientist-astronauts in modern day Kansas City. And, though the astonished explorers discover developments like young men with drooping pants and the election of a black president, their adventure reveals that things may not have changed as much as we think they have.
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Dallas Videofest, the film also stars Trai Byers (Selma) as B-12, Tosin Morohunfola (The Association) as Dr. Race Johnson and Danielle Cooper as Beneatha Avery.
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