Interview (Video): Kevin Wilmott

From Season 11 of the PBS series “On Story”.

In association with the Austin Film Festival and KLRU-TV, the PBS series “On Story” is a must for anybody interested in screenwriting, movies, and/or TV. This week in the 11th season of the series, a conversation with Kevin Wilmott who received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie BlacKkKlansman (2018).

Quote: “You get our age, you’ve seen a lot of broken people. You’ve seen people break and you’ve been involved with people breaking sometimes. Most of the time, you don’t get a moment you get in a film where you get to address your brokenness at its source. You get to reconcile with that brokenness. That’s one of the cool things movies can do.”

This dynamic is one of the reasons why movie are magical. In two hours, any character can go through a major psychological transformation including going from a state of brokenness to a state of wholeness. We see that arc over and over again. Why? Because we want to see that unity arc on screen to inspire us to see the same thing.

There are dozens of videos in the “On Story” archives which you can access here.

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