Kevin Willmott

Kevin Willmott

Nacimiento : 1959-08-31, Junction City, Kansas, USA

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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.

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Kevin Willmott

Películas

Chasing Chasing Amy
Self
Chasing Chasing Amy examines the complex legacy of Kevin Smith's "Chasing Amy" on LGBTQ+ people and its life-saving impact on director Sav Rodgers.
Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Self
A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
Rainbow Boulevard
The Narrator
A photographer and a writer cross paths.
The 24th
Producer
La increíblemente poderosa y oportuna historia real del Vigésimo Cuarto Regimiento de Infantería de Estados Unidos y el motín de Houston de 1917. El motín de Houston fue un motín de 156 soldados afroamericanos en respuesta a la violencia brutal y el abuso a manos de Oficiales de policía de Houston.
The 24th
Writer
La increíblemente poderosa y oportuna historia real del Vigésimo Cuarto Regimiento de Infantería de Estados Unidos y el motín de Houston de 1917. El motín de Houston fue un motín de 156 soldados afroamericanos en respuesta a la violencia brutal y el abuso a manos de Oficiales de policía de Houston.
The 24th
Director
La increíblemente poderosa y oportuna historia real del Vigésimo Cuarto Regimiento de Infantería de Estados Unidos y el motín de Houston de 1917. El motín de Houston fue un motín de 156 soldados afroamericanos en respuesta a la violencia brutal y el abuso a manos de Oficiales de policía de Houston.
Da 5 Bloods: Hermanos de armas
Writer
Cuatro excombatientes afroamericanos - Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis) y Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) - regresan a Vietnam en busca de los restos del jefe de su escuadrón, caído en combate (Chadwick Boseman), y la promesa de un tesoro escondido. Junto al hijo de Paul (Jonathan Majors), se enfrentarán a obstáculos naturales y humanos, y constatarán los estragos causados por la inmoralidad de la guerra de Vietnam.
Infiltrado en el KKKlan
Screenplay
A principios de los años setenta, una época de gran agitación social con la encarnizada lucha por los derechos civiles como telón de fondo, Ron Stallworth se convierte en el primer detective negro del departamento de policía de Colorado Springs, pero es recibido con escepticismo y hostilidad por los mandos y los agentes. Sin amedrentarse, decide seguir adelante y hacer algo por su comunidad llevando a cabo una misión muy peligrosa: infiltrarse en el Ku Klux Klan y exponerlo ante la ciudad.
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Writer
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, this documentary that explores the life an accomplishments of William Allen White.
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Director
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, this documentary that explores the life an accomplishments of William Allen White.
Chi-Raq
Executive Producer
Tras el asesinato de un niño por una bala perdida en un tiroteo, un grupo de mujeres lideradas por Lisístrata decide organizar un movimiento en contra de la violencia en el Southside de Chicago, a través de una "huelga de sexo". Las mujeres se unirán para crear una organización que cuestiona la naturaleza de la raza, el sexo y la violencia en América y en el mundo... Drama que explora la creciente violencia en la ciudad de Chicago, adaptación moderna de "Lisístrata", de Aristófanes.
Chi-Raq
Writer
Tras el asesinato de un niño por una bala perdida en un tiroteo, un grupo de mujeres lideradas por Lisístrata decide organizar un movimiento en contra de la violencia en el Southside de Chicago, a través de una "huelga de sexo". Las mujeres se unirán para crear una organización que cuestiona la naturaleza de la raza, el sexo y la violencia en América y en el mundo... Drama que explora la creciente violencia en la ciudad de Chicago, adaptación moderna de "Lisístrata", de Aristófanes.
Jayhawkers
Writer
A group of unlikely allies modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as a parallel to the Civil Rights movement that would transform the entire American society.
Jayhawkers
Director
A group of unlikely allies modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as a parallel to the Civil Rights movement that would transform the entire American society.
Destination: Planet Negro!
Dr. Warrington Avery
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
Destination: Planet Negro!
Producer
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
Destination: Planet Negro!
Director
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
Destination: Planet Negro!
Writer
In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
The Only Good Indian
Director
Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin, a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy, to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
Bunker Hill
Writer
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand.
Bunker Hill
Director
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand.
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Writer
Escalofriante historia relatada en forma de falso documental. En ella, la pregunta "¿qué hubiera pasado?" es contestada a través de un presente alternativo en el que el Sur triunfó y la esclavitud es legal. El espectador obtiene una sorprendente visión de la cultura americana a través de la televisión, el cine, y los anuncios locales... muchos de ellos escalofriantemente cercanos a nuestra realidad. El documental producido por el ficticio British Broadcasting Service (BBS) cuenta la épica historia de la nación confederada a partir de la victoria en la batalla de Gettysburg y hasta la creación de un exuberante “imperio tropical” y el fatuo presente. Dos historiadores, Rupert Pate y una afrocanadiense nos llevan de viaje por la grandiosa historia de los Estados Confederados de América, comentando décadas de triunfos y tragedias, escándalos políticos y luchas raciales, de esfuerzos por preservar la esclavitud y los valores de preguerra en los tiempos modernos.
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Director
Escalofriante historia relatada en forma de falso documental. En ella, la pregunta "¿qué hubiera pasado?" es contestada a través de un presente alternativo en el que el Sur triunfó y la esclavitud es legal. El espectador obtiene una sorprendente visión de la cultura americana a través de la televisión, el cine, y los anuncios locales... muchos de ellos escalofriantemente cercanos a nuestra realidad. El documental producido por el ficticio British Broadcasting Service (BBS) cuenta la épica historia de la nación confederada a partir de la victoria en la batalla de Gettysburg y hasta la creación de un exuberante “imperio tropical” y el fatuo presente. Dos historiadores, Rupert Pate y una afrocanadiense nos llevan de viaje por la grandiosa historia de los Estados Confederados de América, comentando décadas de triunfos y tragedias, escándalos políticos y luchas raciales, de esfuerzos por preservar la esclavitud y los valores de preguerra en los tiempos modernos.
The Search for Inflata-boy
Expert
A mockumentary about the search for a mysterious creature known as Inflata-boy.
Ninth Street
Producer
The inhabitants of a deteriorating section of 1968 Junction City, Kansas known as "Junk City" bemoan their existence and revel at the history of their neighborhood during its 1940's heydays when legendary jazz musicians regularly played its clubs. In 1968, the area has diminished to strip clubs and juke joints inhabited by Vietnam War draftees that pass through from nearby Fort Riley. Heads of the group include a wino who lost a leg in WWII, a taxi dispatcher, a saloon owner, and a crazed bag lady. The younger generation is represented by a young prostitute who is trying to get off the streets, but is forced to continue to work by a no-good boy friend and the need to feed her baby. Martin Sheen also appears as a white minister who prefers the people in the area over his own congregation.
Ninth Street
Writer
The inhabitants of a deteriorating section of 1968 Junction City, Kansas known as "Junk City" bemoan their existence and revel at the history of their neighborhood during its 1940's heydays when legendary jazz musicians regularly played its clubs. In 1968, the area has diminished to strip clubs and juke joints inhabited by Vietnam War draftees that pass through from nearby Fort Riley. Heads of the group include a wino who lost a leg in WWII, a taxi dispatcher, a saloon owner, and a crazed bag lady. The younger generation is represented by a young prostitute who is trying to get off the streets, but is forced to continue to work by a no-good boy friend and the need to feed her baby. Martin Sheen also appears as a white minister who prefers the people in the area over his own congregation.
Ninth Street
Director
The inhabitants of a deteriorating section of 1968 Junction City, Kansas known as "Junk City" bemoan their existence and revel at the history of their neighborhood during its 1940's heydays when legendary jazz musicians regularly played its clubs. In 1968, the area has diminished to strip clubs and juke joints inhabited by Vietnam War draftees that pass through from nearby Fort Riley. Heads of the group include a wino who lost a leg in WWII, a taxi dispatcher, a saloon owner, and a crazed bag lady. The younger generation is represented by a young prostitute who is trying to get off the streets, but is forced to continue to work by a no-good boy friend and the need to feed her baby. Martin Sheen also appears as a white minister who prefers the people in the area over his own congregation.
Ninth Street
Huddie
The inhabitants of a deteriorating section of 1968 Junction City, Kansas known as "Junk City" bemoan their existence and revel at the history of their neighborhood during its 1940's heydays when legendary jazz musicians regularly played its clubs. In 1968, the area has diminished to strip clubs and juke joints inhabited by Vietnam War draftees that pass through from nearby Fort Riley. Heads of the group include a wino who lost a leg in WWII, a taxi dispatcher, a saloon owner, and a crazed bag lady. The younger generation is represented by a young prostitute who is trying to get off the streets, but is forced to continue to work by a no-good boy friend and the need to feed her baby. Martin Sheen also appears as a white minister who prefers the people in the area over his own congregation.
Untitled Arthur Ashe Biopic
Screenplay
The story of Wimbledon tennis champ and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe