Michael King
Michael King is the Emmy Award winning producer and director of The Rescuers a feature documentary, featuring world-renown historian Sir Martin Gilbert and HRH Prince Charles and Stephanie Nyombayire about diplomats that risked everything to save tens of thousands lives during World II.
King has produced, directed and written documentaries, music videos and a feature film for the last twenty years. In 1991, his MTV music video on Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “ I Have A Dream” received national recognition. He later produced, directed and wrote a PBS documentary in 1995 called “ Making A Living the African-American Experience” featuring Joe Morton. In 1997, he directed and wrote his first feature film “Vanity Kills” in the Czech Republic.
In 1999, his PBS documentary on Youth Violence in America entitled Bangin won the 1999 Emmy and International Television and Video Association Award for ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Best Editing’ featuring Chuck D of Public Enemy. In 2007, he directed and produced a feature documentary entitled Rapping with Shakespeareat Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles and was nominated for 2008 A&E Spotlight Indie Filmmaker Award. Also, he was the executive producer for an American Film Institute film, Crenshaw Nightsstarring Vondie Curtis- Hall and Judd Nelson.
King is a graduate of Connecticut College, BA in Government; University of Amsterdam, MA in Film Studies; and the Amsterdam School of the Arts (Maurits Binger Film Institute) Postgraduate Degree in Feature Film Directing. He also taught for two years at Emerson College, Screenwriting and Novels into Film. In 2007, he was the Filmmaker-in- Residence and Professor of Film at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. King is a former board member of the International Documentary Association and a member of the Director’s Guild of America. In 2009, he was awarded Switzerland’s Carl Lutz’s Medal of Freedom and Connecticut College’s 2010 recipient of the Harriet Buescher Lawrence ’34 Prize for his lifework in film and television.
Michael King is the Emmy Award winning producer and director of The Rescuers a feature documentary, featuring world-renown historian Sir Martin Gilbert and HRH Prince Charles and Stephanie Nyombayire about diplomats that risked everything to save tens of thousands lives during World II.
King has produced, directed and written documentaries, music videos and a feature film for the last twenty years. In 1991, his MTV music video on Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “ I Have A Dream” received national recognition. He later produced, directed and wrote a PBS documentary in 1995 called “ Making A Living the African-American Experience” featuring Joe Morton. In 1997, he directed and wrote his first feature film “Vanity Kills” in the Czech Republic.
In 1999, his PBS documentary on Youth Violence in America entitled Bangin won the 1999 Emmy and International Television and Video Association Award for ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Best Editing’ featuring Chuck D of Public Enemy. In 2007, he directed and produced a feature documentary entitled Rapping with Shakespeareat Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles and was nominated for 2008 A&E Spotlight Indie Filmmaker Award. Also, he was the executive producer for an American Film Institute film, Crenshaw Nightsstarring Vondie Curtis- Hall and Judd Nelson.
King is a graduate of Connecticut College, BA in Government; University of Amsterdam, MA in Film Studies; and the Amsterdam School of the Arts (Maurits Binger Film Institute) Postgraduate Degree in Feature Film Directing. He also taught for two years at Emerson College, Screenwriting and Novels into Film. In 2007, he was the Filmmaker-in- Residence and Professor of Film at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. King is a former board member of the International Documentary Association and a member of the Director’s Guild of America. In 2009, he was awarded Switzerland’s Carl Lutz’s Medal of Freedom and Connecticut College’s 2010 recipient of the Harriet Buescher Lawrence ’34 Prize for his lifework in film and television.
