"I was robbed of my honor... You get outta here before they take yours, too." Vertical Ent. has released an official trailer for the indie drama The 24th, the latest film from writer / director Kevin Willmott. The film tells the story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The so-called "riot" was an uprising by 156 African-American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. Certainly sounds very timely, and is definitely a reference to current events in America, too. The film stars Trai Byers, Bashir Salahuddin, Aja Naomi King, Mo McRae, Tosin Morohunfola, Mykelti Williamson, and Thomas Haden Church. It looks like a very powerful, very moving story to tell. But sadly it seems as if nothing much has changed in over 100 years. Take a look. Here's the ...
- 8/5/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After sharing the Best Adapted Screenplay with Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman, Kevin Willmott has gotten underway with The 24th, a film he is directing from a script he co-wrote with Trai Byers, the latter of whom stars in the film.
The 24th tells the true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. The riot lasted two hours and led to the death of nine civilians, four policemen and two soldiers. It resulted in the largest murder trial in history, which sentenced a total of nineteen men to execution, and forty-one men to life sentences.
The film is two days into shooting in North Carolina and Byers (Empire and Selma), stars alongside Bashir Salahuddin (Top Gun: Maverick), Aja Naomi King...
The 24th tells the true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. The riot lasted two hours and led to the death of nine civilians, four policemen and two soldiers. It resulted in the largest murder trial in history, which sentenced a total of nineteen men to execution, and forty-one men to life sentences.
The film is two days into shooting in North Carolina and Byers (Empire and Selma), stars alongside Bashir Salahuddin (Top Gun: Maverick), Aja Naomi King...
- 6/4/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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
New York City's posh Dalton School has apologized for screening a movie about what would happen if the South had won the Civil War, featuring ads making light of the continued existence of slavery. The film, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, was shown to sophomores during a presentation of history projects on Monday, according to the New York Times. After the film's edgy and comical treatment of slavery led to complaints, the school met with students and parents to apologize. The 2004 movie, directed by University of Kansas professor Kevin Willmott and distributed by IFC Films,
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- 1/31/2014
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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
As Michael Moore and Errol Morris can attest, sometimes there's no better way to tell a story than through documentaries. It's no wonder feature-film directors have appropriated the nonfictional format for fiction storytelling. What better narrative device is there for slipping into the head of a subject or a cross section of subjects? Here are ten mockumentaries that do the genre justice. 10. I'm Still Here When Joaquin Phoenix announced to the world (or, at least, to anyone who gave a damn) that he was leaving the movie business to start a rap career, it was all part of an experiment that cohort Casey Affleck captured on camera. Many a critic rolled their eyes at the film for being a pointless stunt, but there's something compelling about Phoenix's feigned downward spiral into egomaniacal delirium. This fake documentary hits pretty close to home in Hollywood. 9. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America Adopting...
- 4/19/2011
- AMC Filmcritic's Top Ten
PARK CITY -- IFC Entertainment has announced a new video-on-demand service that will premiere select films at the same time they're released in theaters. The announcement came Monday morning at an IFC Films panel on collapsing release date windows, vertical integration and the new day-and-date distribution model. IFC's First Take, the new distribution outlet, will launch in March with Kevin Willmott's CSA: The Confederate States of America, a mockumentary about what might have happened if the South had won the Civil War, which played at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. IFC plans to offer at least 24 indie films annually. Among the six upcoming projects on First Take's slate are the Gotham Award-winning I Am a Sex Addict, directed by Caveh Zahedi; Aric Avelino's American Gun, which also played at Sundance 2004; and the recent Toronto International Film Festival entry Sorry, Haters, a psychological thriller starring Robin Wright Penn and directed by Jeff Stanzler.
- 1/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- Indie distributor IFC Films has acquired North American rights to the Sundance Film Festival feature CSA: The Confederate States of America, by writer-helmer Kevin Willmott. The film, screening in the American Spectrum section, poses the question: What would have happened if the South had won the Civil War? Willmott's vision is presented as a straight-faced, Ken Burns-style documentary showing an alternative modern-day America with uncanny parallels to current society. In CSA, America is a land in which slavery is alive and well, nonwhites and non-Christians are relegated to reservations, the country is in an ongoing cold war with Canada, and a Slave Shopping Network is on TV.
- 1/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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