{"id":7289,"date":"2018-09-24T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2018-09-24T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:52:32","slug":"becoming-blackkklansman-kevin-willmott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/becoming-blackkklansman-kevin-willmott\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/27 \u201cBecoming \u2018BlacKkKlansman&#8217;\u201d: Kevin Willmott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KEVIN WILLMOTT: Lecture and Discussion<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cBecoming \u2018BlacKkKlansman\u2019: Adapting Memoir for the Screen\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, Sept. 27, 3:30 p.m., Richard F. Celeste Theatre in Cornerstone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Willmott is a director and screenwriter whose films include \u201cNinth Street\u201d (1999), \u201cC.S.A.: The Confederate States of America\u201d (2004), \u201cBunker Hill\u201d (2008), and \u201cThe Only Good Indian\u201d (2009). He worked to adapt Ron Stallworth\u2019s 2014 memoir \u201cBlack Klansman\u201d into the 2018 Spike Lee film \u201cBlacKkKlansman,\u201d set in Colorado Springs and at Colorado College. \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d won the Grand Prix at the 2018 Festival de Cannes and is currently in wide theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p><em>Co-sponsored by The Butler Center; Residential Life and Campus Activities; the Feminist and Gender Studies Program; the Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies Program; and the Cultural Attractions Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEVIN WILLMOTT: Lecture and Discussion \u201cBecoming \u2018BlacKkKlansman\u2019: Adapting Memoir for the Screen\u201d Thursday, Sept. 27, 3:30 p.m., Richard F. 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