Film director and and Oscar-winning screenwriter Kevin Willmott will speak Sunday April 28th at 2 p.m. at the C.L. Hoover Opera House. A professor of film at the University of Kansas, WIllmott is the first speaker in the new Hoover-Koken Foundation Lecture Series in Junction City.

Willmott grew up in Junction City and received a Bachelor of Art degree in Drama from Marymount College in Salina. He received a Master of Fine Art degree in Dramatic Writing from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

Admission will be free on the 28th.

Willmott received an Oscar Award for BlackKkKlansman along with co-writers Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz for Best Adapted Screenplay.