POWERS Kemp
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POWERS Kemp

POWERS
Kemp

American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 30 October 1973

Age: 51 years old

Zodiac sign: Scorpio

Profession: Filmmaker

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Kemp Powers is an American filmmaker and playwright. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami, the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, Soul, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. His screenplay for One Night in Miami... earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards in April 2021. His work on Soul meant that Powers became the first African-American to co-direct a Disney animated feature.

Career

After writing the 2012 short film This Day Today, he scripted the 2013 play One Night in Miami. In 2017, Powers was brought onboard to write several scripts for Star Trek: Discovery season one episodes. In 2018, he co-wrote the script for Pixar's Soul, with Pete Docter and Mike Jones, as well as co-directing the film with Docter, making his directorial debut. On July 9, 2019, it was announced that actress Regina King would be directing a film adaptation of Powers' play One Night in Miami.

On December 16, 2020, Powers hosted the first three episodes of the podcast Soul Stories, which was released as a Spotify exclusive. In the episodes, Powers interviewed several people who worked on the film mainly about their mentors and careers, as well as some behind-the-scenes stories behind the making of the film. An alumnus of Howard University, Powers is the first African-American co-director in Pixar history. In April 2021, Powers was revealed to be directing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and its sequel Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse with Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson. In March 2023, Powers premiered his play The XIXth (The Nineteenth), which chronicles the lives of two Black American sprinters who raised their fists in protest during the 1968 Summer Olympics games.

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