Oscar-winner Kevin Willmott coming to Little Rock
Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott will be coming to the CALS Main Library in downtown Little Rock to host a free discussion about his work.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott will be coming to Little Rock to host a discussion about his work as a screenwriter, director, and documentarian.
The event, hosted by the Arkansas Cinema Society (ACS) and the University of Arkansas Little Rock School of Mass Communication, will take place Monday, November 10, at 6:30 p.m. on the fifth floor of the CALS Main Library in downtown Little Rock. You can register for the free event here.
ACS Curator and UA Little Rock Film Professor Chris Robinson, who once worked as Willmott’s teaching assistant, said he’s excited to welcome him to central Arkansas.
“While I first knew Kevin as the screenwriting professor down the hall, he’s always been uncompromising in his work in terms of not pulling punches,” said Robinson. “While most people know him now as a screenwriter with Spike Lee for such films as BlacKkKlansman or Da Five Bloods, his body of work as a film director reveals a truly provocative vision. This is to say nothing of his many probing documentaries. As Kevin has said, ‘You’re not supposed to write the stuff that I write. You’re not supposed to make the movies I make.’”
Kevin Willmott won an Academy Award and a BAFTA award for co-writing the feature film Blackkklansman with Spike Lee.
He also co-wrote the feature film Da Five Bloods for Netflix, which won the best film by the National Board of Review. Other award-winning films written and directed by Willmott include Ninth Street, CSA–Confederate States of America, the Battle for Bunker Hill, Jayhawkers, and Destination: Planet Negro.
Some documentaries directed by Willmott include: From Separate to Equal: The Creation of Truman Medical Center, Gordon Parks Elementary, Fast Break: The Legendary Coach John Mclendon, and William Allen White: What’s the Matter with Kansas, No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas and The Heroic True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks.