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.
