Kevin Willmott

Acting

Kevin Willmott

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Aug 31, 1959 (66 years old)

Kevin Willmott

Known For

Chasing Chasing Amy
1h 32m
DOLBY
Movie 2023

Chasing Chasing Amy

CHASING CHASING AMY explores the transformational impact of a ‘90s...

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
1h 20m
DOLBY
Movie 2021

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking

A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of...

Destination: Planet Negro!
1h 38m
DOLBY
Movie 2013

Destination: Planet Negro!

In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up...

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8min
DOLBY
Movie 2003

The Search for Inflata-boy

A mockumentary about the search for a mysterious creature known...

Biography

Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959) is an American film director and screenwriter, and professor of film at the University of Kansas. He is known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and Bunker Hill. His The Only Good Indian (2009) was a feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation that took place. In Jayhawkers (2014), he followed the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen and the 1956 Kansas Jayhawks basketball team. Willmott has collaborated with Spike Lee, with whom he shared an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman. The two again collaborated in writing Da 5 Bloods, released worldwide digitally on June 12, 2020.