Academy Award winning film director and Junction City native Kevin Willmott will visit Junction City High School Tuesday. There will be a Meet & Greet from 2-3 p.m. and an assembly from 3:15 - 3:50 p.m.
Willmott won an Academy Award and the BAFTA, the British Academy award for co-writing with Spike Lee the feature film Blackkklansman. The film also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. He also co-wrote and is the executive producer of the critically acclaimed film, Chi-Raq, also directed by Spike Lee. The film is on numerous best of 2015 lists, including best film and best screenplay by The New Yorker Magazine.
Willmott has written and directed a number of other films ranging from Ninth Street C.S.A.: Confederate states of America.