Kwyn Bader is a multiple award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter and
journalist whose work explores issues of race, historical protest and
cultural integration from the unique vantage point of his bi-racial
background and multi-cultural upbringing.
His most recent project was the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary
Birth of a Movement which tells the story of an early civil rights
activist's battle against D.W. Griffith's technically groundbreaking but
notoriously racist Hollywood film The Birth of a Nation.
He is also the writer and director of the SXSW Film Festival Winner
for Best Feature Film, Loving Jezebel, recognized by the New York
Times as "a sign of the future in film" for its treatment of race that
"deserved notice because race isn't an issue, though it's protagonist
has an African-American mother and white father and falls for girls of
varied racial backgrounds."
He is the screenwriter of the Ossie Davis narrated documentary
film Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes, a history of America's first
Black fighter pilots, and has written feature and TV screenplays for
Hollywood studios including Paramount Pictures, Fox Searchlight and
USA TV.
Kwyn served as the story consultant on the Sundance Film Festival
Winner for Best Feature Documentary, Alive Inside, which explored
the phenomenal ability of music to restore memory to victims of
Alzheimer's, and he wrote the animated social action campaign film 60
Million to support the theatrical release of Participant Media's
documentary, He Named Me Malala which tells the life story of
Pakistani female activist and Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Malala Yousafzai.
He is also a successful creative executive who serves as the Senior
Global Director of Creative Strategy for ViacomCBS Consumer
Products, helping translate shows and movies from iconic brands
Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Paramount into products sold all
over the world.
