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Kevin Willmott

Kevin Willmott
  • Name: Kevin Willmott
  • Birthday: 1959-08-31
  • Place of birth: Junction City, Kansas, USA
  • Popularity: 1.112
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Chasing Chasing Amy   as  Self 2023-06-08
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking   as  Self 2021-07-10
Destination: Planet Negro!   as  Dr. Warrington Avery 2013-02-16
The Search for Inflata-boy   as  Expert 2003-01-01
Ninth Street   as  Huddie 1999-01-10