Kevin Jerome Everson

February 1, 1965

Mansfield, Ohio, USA

Kevin Jerome Everson is an American artist and filmmaker. In 2006, Everson was voted one of the 25 most important new faces in independent cinema by Filmmaker Magazine. In 2012, he received the prestigious Alpert Award for Film and Video. Everson's work is shot in an experimental way, often on 16mm film. It features the lives and myths of the working-class black Americans. He mixes a documentary approach that often evokes the appearance of fiction.