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- T-Money & Wolf
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Junction City, Kansas, USA
Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. 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…
Known for
- Hollywood Black — Self2024
- Chasing Chasing Amy — Self2023
- Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking — Self2021
- Jayhawkers — Dowdall Davis2014
- Destination: Planet Negro! — Dr. Warrington Avery2013
- The Search for Inflata-boy — Expert2003
- Ninth Street — Huddie1999
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
Discography
- Nature’s Quest1996
- Moon Tears1998
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- 65
- Total plays
- 135
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Willmott, Kevin | African Film Festival, Inc.
africanfilmny.org →Kevin Willmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas and a film writer and director. 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 film The Only Good Indian , which he directed and produced, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. In 2013, Willmott’s films Destination: Planet Negro! and Jayhawkers were both released. He also served as a writer on Spike Lee ’s film Chi-Raq and as a screenwriter on Lee’s film BlacKkKlansman which won an Oscar and BAFTA for best adapted screenplay in 2019. Biography Source
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- human
- Given name
- Kevin
- Family name
- Willmott
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Junction City
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
- Employer
- University of Kansas
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- date of birth
- 1959-08-31
- described at URL
- africanfilmny.org/directors/kevin-willmott
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