Free Film Screening, Talk and Q&A with Award Winning Producer and UVM Alumnus Jon Kilik

Jon Kilik will speak as an Executive Producer of the film The Voice of Hind Rajab. In this talk he will share insights about the film's production, release, and Oscar campaign. He will interweave his multiple decades of experience producing and spearheading bold cinematic achievements and how his latest film epitomizes the challenges ahead of the industry. JON KILIK (Producer) is a leading independent producer known for his collaborations with visionary directors and for films that integrate powerful stories of the human condition and social issues. He has partnered creatively with many acclaimed directors including Spike Lee, Julian Schnabel, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Bennett Miller, Jim Jarmusch, Sean Penn and Oliver Stone. He also produced the first four films of the Hunger Games series. Kilik produced 16 films with Spike Lee, including the groundbreaking and Oscar-nominated Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Clockers, He Got Game, 25th Hour and Da 5 Bloods. Kilik developed and produced all of the films by artist and director Julian Schnabel, including Schnabel's debut Basquiat, the Oscar-nominated Before Night Falls, the rock documentary Lou Reed's Berlin, Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Oscar-nominated At Eternity's Gate. Kilik first worked with Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu on Babel, for which he received a Best Picture Oscar nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Film. They reunited for Biutiful, Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Other notable films produced by Kilik include Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Oliver Stone's Alexander, Gary Ross' Pleasantville, Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking and Robert De Niro's A Bronx Tale. Most recently Kilik served as Executive Producer of The Voice of Hind Rajab, his 12th film to receive at least one Academy Award nomination. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Jon grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. He graduated from the…