Empathetic Point of View
Kevin T. Morales dives into the architecture of 1991 Best Picture winner, The Silence of the Lambs, to explore its creative and thematically resonating use of empathetic point-of-view.
A symptom of bad movies and mediocre scripts is a lack of strong point-of-view or careless use of it. After Kevin’s lecture, Filmmakers and writers of every kind will have greater insight into one of the most crucial parts of storytelling, regardless of genre or medium.
[November 28, 2023]
Kevin T. Morales is a Latino filmmaker and a California native now living in New York with his wife and two children. He is the nephew of Oscar-winning director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz). Kevin went on to study drama, directing, and dramatic writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a National Merit and Dean’s Scholar. He has been the Artistic Director of two professional theater companies and written four original plays and three musicals and directed more than thirty professional productions Regionally and Off-Broadway. Since 2008 he has been writing and working in film and tv full time, and in 2019 shot his feature film Generation Wrecks, co-written with his daughter, actress Victoria Leigh, which made its world premiere at Dances With Films in Hollywood in the summer of 2021. The film has earned invitations to The Catalina Film Festival, Coney Island Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival, Studio City International Film Festival, and The Florida Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for narrative feature. Recently he was selected as a fellow for the 2021 Latino Media Market. His suspenseful ghost-story feature, Shadow Vaults, is hitting festivals in 2023. He has a number of films and TV series in development with various companies. Much of his time is spent wrangling his sheepdog, Mabel. Kevin is repped by MSW Media Management.