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Kemp Powers (born October 30, 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Dec 21, 2020 · Advertisement. This article was published more than 3 years ago. Comics. Kemp Powers’s long journey to becoming Pixar’s first Black writer-director. By Michael Cavna. December 21, 2020 at...
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Kemp Powers is the co-director of “Soul” and screenwriter of “One Night in Miami,” but his collaborators may not know just how much of himself is in those films. Share full article 6
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Kemp Powers is an American film co-director, screenwriter, and playwright who co-directed the 2020 Disney/Pixar film, Soul with Pete Docter as his directorial debut.
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 direct...
Jan 27, 2021 · By Akiva Gottlieb. Jan. 27, 2021 6 AM PT. Kemp Powers is having the sort of year that fledgling screenwriters dream about. After two decades as a journalist, and a few more years as a...
Powers is a Golden Globe®-winning and Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director who was named one of Variety's 2020 “10 Screenwriters to Watch.”
Nov 19, 2020 · How Pete Docter and Kemp Powers brought the first Black Pixar protagonist to life in ‘Soul’. By Sonaiya Kelley Staff Writer. Nov. 19, 2020 7 AM PT. In 1963, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock was...
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