Kevin Willmott

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 CSA 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 again collaborated in writing Da 5 Bloods released worldwide digitally on June 12 2020