Reimagining History with Academy-Award Winning Filmmaker Kevin Willmott

In partnership with the American Jazz Museum, Gem Theater, and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, we are honored to host an exciting evening with Kansas City-area filmmaker and Oscar winning co-writer for BlacKkKlansman, Kevin Willmott! Please join us as he discusses his film repertoire through the lens of exhibition themes of history, global connectivity, socio-political unrest, and the power of protest. Registration is encouraged.

ABOUT KEVIN WILLMOTT

Kevin Willmott grew up in Junction City, Kansas and received his BA in Drama from Marymount College and MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. He is an Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter whose work often focuses on human rights and race issues including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and Bunker Hill. In 2019, Willmott won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film BlacKkKlansman, which he co-wrote with Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, and David Rabinowitz. He worked with Spike Lee again for Da 5 Bloods (2020).

Willmott is currently a professor emeritus of the University of Kansas Film & Media Studies program.

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