John Kinhart is a documentary filmmaker based in Washington, DC. His first two films Non-Player-Character and Futonmaker have shown at several film festivals throughout the United States. Non-Player-Character premiered at the Johns Hopkins Film Festival and won the Best Documentary and Audience Pick Award at the Dusk till Dawn film festival in Texas.
John originally started out as a painter at the Maryland Institute College of Art, but developed a keen interest in documentary filmmaking his junior year. John is influenced by such filmmakers as the Maysles brothers, Joe Berliner and Bruce Synofsky, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog
John also participated in the Baltimore CAmm Slamm, a homegrown 48-hour film project. Each year he and his co-directors created a documentary for the contest, culminating in a film that proved the audience award could be bought by buying the audience and "winning" first place. (His crew stepped down for the real winners, amid much controversy.)
John currently works as a video editor for the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP), a non-profit organization co-founded by Camille Cosby and Renee Poussaint. NVLP's mission is to film interviews with pioneering African American elders, and make excerpts of those interviews available for posterity.
John's previous projects include serving as cinematographer for Is It True What They Say About Ann?, a documentary about controversial pundit Ann Coulter, and assistant director for "Dazzlement," a music video for Cherrywine, a.k.a. Butterfly from the hip-hop group Digable Planets. |