FILM PROJECTS
Kemari Bryant is a hardworking and resourceful filmmaker who brings his creativity and ingenuity to every project he is a part of. He co-founded a film production company, Adynaton Productions, where he served as the Head of Development. In 2020 he was awarded the “Resisting Narratives of Erasure Filmmakers Lab” grant through Visionary Justice Storylab, a film collective based in Atlanta, GA, though which he made his award-winning short "INSPACE". He most recently Assistant Directed a short film in Wyoming, working with a team of well-respected national filmmakers. He is currently working on writing his next project, while in pre-production for a short documentary set to shoot late Summer 2022.
INSPACE
WRITER / DIRECTOR / EDITOR
INSPACE is an exploration of Black bodies in white space through the mediums of dance and film. An unconventional narrative, INSPACE follows the filmmaker's experience growing up in predominantly white spaces. Four dancers embody this journey from beginning to end, portraying what it truly is to be INSPACE.
MOTHMAN: AN ANTI-HATE SUPERHERO COMEDY
WRITER / DIRECTOR / EDITOR
Co-written with Michael Newman. Co-edited with Alexei Mejouev.
It’s 2020, and the student government election is in full swing at the PWI, James Buchanan University. After the death of Eric Fullson, a Tri Kappa Fraternity pledge, there is a spike in the polls for Bradley Holden, the president of Tri Kappa. Ronnie Reed discovers that Holden is using the death of Fullson to garner sympathy as he rigs the polls against his opponent, Veronica Moore. With the election quickly approaching Ronnie realizes that he must create the vigilante alter ego Mothman and, much like a moth, find the light in the darkness to defeat the political injustice on his campus. Coming soon.
HAWTHORNE: A WEB SERIES
CREATOR / SHOWRUNNER / DIRECTOR / EDITOR
After a young woman’s emotional trauma creates a tear in the time-space continuum, the citizens of Hawthorne explore love, loss and identity as reality bends around them. The full Hawthorne web series is available on YouTube here.
Co-created with Michael Newman.
Hawthorne is a web series produced by my production company, Adynaton Productions. It was co-created by myself and Michael Newman. We also served as showrunners, heading up a Writer's Room of eight writers who each wrote an episode of the series. I had the responsibility of overseeing production, leading the design team and team of ten directors who came in to direct each episode, and directed three episodes myself (Episode 1, Episode 13, Episode 14). I also shot every episode on the BMPCC 4k.
BRINA
WRITER / DIRECTOR / DP / EDITOR
Co-written and co-directed with Cameron Linly Robinson.
A young woman must find stability in her community when she discovers she is pregnant on the eve of her 21st birthday.