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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 · Kemp Powers is the co-director of Pixar's upcoming movie “Soul.” (Nolwen Cifuentes for The Washington Post) ... a charter bus driver, died of cancer in 2003.) Powers toyed with the gun and ...
- Michael Cavna
Kemp Powers had no film credits in 2018, when he was summoned to Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif., to give notes on a secret work in progress. ... He became another dead Black man ...
Feb 18, 2021 · One Night in Miami…. (Amazon Studios), directed by Oscar-winning actor Regina King, dramatizes a real-life 1964 meeting between Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, and Cassius Clay. The original ...
- Cassie da Costa
Jan 27, 2021 · Kemp Powers co-wrote and co-directed the Pixar movie “Soul” as well as adapted his own stage play for the film “One Night in Miami.”. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) By Akiva Gottlieb ...
Powers said the existential themes of “Soul,” literally life and death, have not gone over the heads of children, nor are they frightened by it. “They are watching it multiple times,” he said.
Sep 9, 2021 · A recovering journalist, Kemp and Art of Power host Aarti Shahani talk about how the newsroom almost killed his creativity and how he salvaged it one snowy night when he nearly died. Powers...
