GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT

Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this magnetic portrait explores the poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s Afrofuturist-feminist philosophical outlook as well as her poignant relationship with her family, her political audacity, and her poetic eloquence, all knit together with a constant eye and ear for its subject’s own aesthetic verve. As she approaches 80, Giovanni looks back at a personal life and history cast in the long shadow of American racism, and forward to hopeful, possible futures.