Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

On Saturday, February 10, 2024, the Woods Hole Film Festival, together with the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee present a special Dinner & A Movie screening of the award-winning feature documentary GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT by Michelle Stephenson and Joe Brewster for Black History Month, preceded by readings from local poets.

ABOUT THE FILM
Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, is a feature documentary that takes us through the mindscape of legendary poet, Nikki Giovanni, as she reflects on her life and legacy. Nikki’s voice guides us across time and space, through dreams and remembrances, across decades of American history, as the film reimagines her most iconic work with visual lyricism fit for a poet. Present day finds Nikki in her late chapter of life, reckoning with health struggles and the inevitable march of time. However, in her art and dreams, Nikki ventures beyond her own lifetime, to Middle Passage and Mars, always keeping hold of possibility. She urges us to dream of a better future where equity and justice reign, and Black women lead, calling us to action with an unforgettable mantra: “We’re going to Mars.”

Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from October through May 2024. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. The program includes films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.

The screenings begin at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $16 and $12 for WHFF members, student/military $10. Tickets are on sale in advance at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org and at the door if they are not sold out in advance.

The festival is supported in part by grants from the Mass Cultural Council, Cape Cod 5, Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation, Woods Hole Foundation, Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Falmouth Fund of the Cape Cod Foundation, YouthInk, and the National Endowment for the Arts.