Kyvon Edwin
Acting
Biography
Kyvon Edwin is a native Saint Lucian award winning Director, Producer, Writer and Actor currently based in New York. He is an alumnus of the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute as an Eleanora Duse Scholar. His work has been featured at Academy Award qualifying festivals including American Black Film Festival, Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Hip Hop Film Festival, Essence Film Festival, Bronzelens Film Festival and the Festival de Cannes among others. His writing work has been workshopped at the likes of Black Film Space and Sundance Collective Kitchen. Kyvon’s first foray into filmmaking was through an intensive program at the Bushwick Film Institute where he trained with industry mentors from HBO, ESPN, and B & H. The program equipped Kyvon with a firm understanding of directing techniques, film production, equipment training and a wealth of film and TV knowledge. Since then, he’s gone on to direct, produce and collaborate on a number of projects. The primary focus of his work is to give voice to the underrepresented West-Indian diaspora. In pursuit of that mission, Kyvon founded Roots Productions, a multi-media production company authentically championing stories of the diaspora. The company’s debut project Lettre La premiered at Chelsea Film Festival and is currently streaming via Aspire TV.
Known For
At a small New York theatre, an ageing magician comes up with a devilish plan to save his piece of old New York by invoking some real black magic. Harsh realities and fantastic illusions come together in BLACK MAGIC FOR WHITE BOYS, Onur Tukel’s latest film, a bizarre comic adventure about gentrification, race and bodily autonomy in New York City. With over 50 minutes of new footage, Tukel has completely reworked a project initially presented in 2017 as a four-episode series at Tribeca into a gnarly and charmingly weird dark comedy. Balancing edgy misanthropy with a strain of silly sweetness, this is an intimate low-budget parable about the changing face of New York City.
Black Magic for White Boys
Over the course of one night a group of college friends try to navigate their complicated love lives before they leave for winter break.
The Last Christmas Party
In a society enslaved by phones, Natalie eyes a young man on the subway. She decides to follow him. They begin an unlikely connection that leads them down the path of a happy marriage. But is it all real?
Crush
A rising cricket prodigy forgoes his dreams and sets out to bring peace in his home from the clutches of his toxic father.