Directing
Kemp Powers
Born 1973-10-30 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Kemp Powers 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). His screenplay for One Night in Miami... earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards, while his work on Soul made him the first African-American to co-direct a Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar feature. Powers was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kemp Powers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
NRWriting, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by the filmmakers who worked so hard to push Across the Spider-Verse several steps farther without losing the magic of the first entry in the series.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
2023
NRSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: "I'mma Do My Own Thing" - Interdimensional Destiny
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: "I'mma Do My Own Thing" - Interdimensional Destiny
2023
NRSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Obscure Spiders and Easter Eggs
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Obscure Spiders and Easter Eggs
2023
NRSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast
2023
See how the Pixar Systems team and SOUL's crew managed to finish the film on schedule during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Soul, Improvised
2021
NRSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Across the Worlds: Designing New Dimensions
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Across the Worlds: Designing New Dimensions
2023
Behind the camera
8.3After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
8.1Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Soul
2020
7.0In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
One Night in Miami...
2020
Inspired by the audacious true story of the American government’s plot to steal a Soviet spacecraft during a 1959 exposition in Mexico City.
Lunik Heist
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Inspired by the audacious true story of the American government’s plot to steal a Soviet spacecraft during a 1959 exposition in Mexico City.
Lunik Heist
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