Kevin Willmott

Kevin Willmot
Born	1969 (age 46–47)
Occupation	Film producer, film director, screenwriter, actor

Kevin Willmott (born 1959)^[1] is a professor of film at the University of Kansas and a film writer and director, known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America and Bunker Hill.

Life and career

Wilmott grew up Junction City, Kansas and received a BA in Drama from Marymount College (Kansas). He received a M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.^[2] He won the Best Director award at the American Indian Film Festival with The Only Good Indian.^[3] Willmott's next film, Jayhawkers, received funding through Kickstarter.com, a crowdsourcing website.^[4]

Filmography

Film

• Ninth Street (1999) - director, writer, producer, actor
• Das Bus (2003) - self
• The Search for Inflata-boy (2003) - actor
• The Fascist of X-Mart (2003) - actor
• C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) - director, writer
• Waiting for the Son (2007) - actor
• Bunker Hill (2008) - director, writer, producer
• The Only Good Indian (2008) - director, producer
• Destination: Planet Negro (2013) - director, writer
• Jayhawkers (2013) - director, writer, producer
• Chi-Raq (2015) - writer

Television

• The '70s (2000) - writer
• High Tech Lincoln (2005) - producer

References

2. Archived September 6, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
3. Archived July 28, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
4. ""Jayhawkers" - Feature Film by Kevin Willmott". Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 2015-12-26.

External links

• Kevin Willmott at the Internet Movie Database