"Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project"
Location
About
7 p.m. Friday, March 13
Page Hall, UAlbany Downtown Campus
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12203
(United States, 2023, 102 minutes, color)
Directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson. Starring Nikki Giovanni, Taraji P. Henson, James Baldwin.
This acclaimed documentary follows the life of beloved American poet Nikki Giovanni—firebrand, radical, healer, sage—across the turbulent 20th and early 21st centuries, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. The film won both a Primetime Emmy and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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Meet trailblazing filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson at the Albany Film Festival on Saturday, March 28th. Brewster and Stephenson are cofounders of Rada Studio, a production company that foregrounds the stories of communities neglected by the mainstream media.