Morris - CV & Films
KEITH ALAN MORRIS
producer/writer/director/cinematographer/professor
LATEST: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-alan-morris/
SELECTED FILMS (not a complete list)
Title - Studio/Prod. Co. - Position
2023 The Biker Thief - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Producer - Amazon Prime and Tubi
2023 Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos) - Element Pictures - Prod Consultant - Locations
2023 HITMAN (Richard Linklater) - AGC Studios - Prod Consultant - Locations
2021 The Premise (BJ Novak) - FX/Disney/Hulu - Prod. Consultant
2021 Home Team (Adam Sandler) - Happy Madison/Cabellero - Casting Consultant
2021 "65" (Adam Driver/Sam Raimi) - Disney - Prod. Consultant
2021 US of Horror Anthology - "Arkansas" - short - Amazon Prime - Wri/Dir/DP
2021 Who Wants It? (Vaccines) - Dillard Biology grant/Amy Lesen - Producer/Wri/Dir/DP
2021 KARL (in post prod) - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Producer/DP/Animator
2020 7 Minute Sets Comedy Show - Dillard - pilot - Producer/DP
2020 Nick Living’s Untitled Horror - Nick Living (DU16) - Producer
2021 Killin’ It (Craig Robinson) - Brooklyn 99 producers/Fox - Prod. Consultant
2021 Freefall - Adult Swim - Warner Media - Creator (pitch)2019 Toughest Room - TV pilot - UFO Technologies - Dir
2018 I am an Agent of Chaos (script) - UFO Technologies - Writer
2017 The Letterboxers - UFO Technologies - Producer/DP
2016 The Other Professionals (script) - UFO Technologies - Wri/Producer/DP
2016 Burning Sands - Burning Sands LLC - Prod. Consultant
2015 Speakeasy (pre-pro; doc) - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Prod/DP
2015 The Magnificent 7 - Sony Pictures - Prod. Consultant - See it on Amazon Prime
2015 Parrallax - Imagine Entertainment - Prod. Consultant - See trailer on YouTube
2015 Rodeo & Juliet - UFO Technologies/Talmarc - Producer/DP - See on Netflix
2015 Runaway Hearts - UFO Canyon LLC - Dir/Prod/DP - See it on Amazon Prime
2015 Elvis & Nixon - Sony Pictures - Prod. Consultant - See it on Amazon Prime
2015 Kickboxer: Vengeance - Radar Pictures - Prod. Consultant - See it on Tubi
2015 There is a New World Somewhere - New Road - Prod. Consultant - See on Prime
2015 Maggie - Lionsgate - Prod. Consultant - See it on Amazon Prime
2015 When the Bough Breaks - Screen Gems - Prod. Consultant - See on Tubi
2014 Cover Me - UFO Technologies - Exec. Producer - See trailer here
2014 Meka Jean - UFO Technologies - Exec. Producer
2014 Mr. Right - Amasia/Circle of Confusion - Prod. Consultant - See it on Amazon Prime
2013 OLDBOY - 40 Acres & a Mule - Prod. Consultant - See it on Amazon Prime
2012 Man Who Ate New Orleans - Gasoline Films - Co-Producer
2011 Heaven and Hell in N.O. - Gasoline Films - Co-Producer
2010 Gutter King - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Producer - see trailer
2006 RUBS (doc) - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Prod/DP
2006 Flying Tiger - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Producer
2001 The Clinic - UFO Technologies - Wri/Dir/Prod/DP
TELEVISION/WEB
Show - Studio/Prod. Co. - Position
2020 Popeyes 30 Commercials Viral Campaign - Damian Romay/Masses - Producer/DP
2018 AUDI commercials - UFO Technologies - All Creative
2015 NFL Films/Gatorade - Chiat Day/NFL Films - Prod. Consultant
2015 NCIS New Orleans - CBS - Prod. Consultant
2014 Nightwatch: New Orleans - A&E - Prod. Consultant
K E I T H . A L A N . M O R R I S, M.F.A.
New Orleans, LA 70118 / km9000(@)gmail.com
Keith Alan Morris is a practicing filmmaker and professor. He wrote and directed the crime thriller "The Biker Thief" (2023) on Amazon Prime and created "7 Minute Sets" (2024), a standup comedy series. He helped Spike Lee make OLDBOY (Amazon Prime) and directed and shot "Runaway Hearts" (Netflix) starring John Schneider and Wendell Pierce. He consults on 9-12 films a year, including Richard Linklater's The Hitman (2023) and Yorgos Lanthimos' "Kinds of Kindness" (2024), The Magnificent Seven (Prime), Elvis & Nixon (Prime), and Mr. Right (Prime). He also works as a cinematographer and producer on numerous films, including Marvista's family western "Rodeo and Juliet" (Netflix), starring living legend Buck Taylor and Krista Allen.
Morris' furthest personal reach was as the writer/director/producer of “Gutter King” – recently ranked #159 on IMDB. Distributed by Multivisionnaire and Metrodome (Donnie Darko, Monster), 2010-present, the film is distributed in over 25 countries, including the U.S., China, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Malaysia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, etc..
He is also the tenured Associate Professor of Film at Dillard University in New Orleans, an HBCU, where he ran the film program as the Program Coordinator from 2010 to 2023. In 2015, the Film program was named one of two Signature Programs at Dillard. He won the 2012 Media Educator of the Year Award by the Social Change Film Fest and Institute and helps 3 to 12 features get made per year.
Morris is sought out by his peers for his ability to take smaller budgets and make epic creations. All of his features screened at the Cannes Film Festival Market sold for far above what their budgets should allow.
Please only contact Keith if you are a producer who is partially financed and needs consultation or are a past crew member looking to reconnect.
More:
https://ufo-technologies.blogspot.com/
@KeithAlanMorris on Twitter
EDUCATION:
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL - 2008. Masters of Fine Art in Film and Digital Media, 2008, Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema Track (3 year program). Feature film project complete and distributed to 25+ countries. Created two full business plans, two 200pg. production packages, and one 280 page graduate thesis available for review.
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI - B.A. with Honors, 1994. Political Science major. Communications minor. Shot two feature films in college.
Institut de Internacional, Madrid, Spain, 1993. Foreign Study and Spanish.
SOLELY AS WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER:
“THE BIKER THIEF” - Writer / Director / Producer / Cinematographer - 2023. On Amazon Prime and Tubi.
“K.A.R.L.” – Wri/Dir/Prod/Animator - Shot entirely in New Orleans about a robot in post-apocalyptic New Orleans. Email for samples.
“7 MINUTE SETS” - Director / Producer - 2020 - email for samples
“Runaway Hearts” - Director / Producer / DP - Amazon Prime - 2018
“Gutter King” – Ranked #159 on IMDB. Distributed by Metrodome (Donnie Darko, Monster), 2010-2014. In theaters and stores in 25+ countries. 3.2 million torrents online. Screened at MIPCOM, AFM, CANNES, Hong Kong, Berlin and more.
"Flying Tiger" - Best Feature at the Arizona Film and TV Fest, 2008. Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival Market for feature film (writer / director / producer)
“The Clinic” - Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival Market for feature film - (writer / director / producer). Best Screenplay--NY Int'l Independent Film and Video Festival for The Clinic 2001
“R.U.B.s.” – Documentary that screened for 6 months in the Guggenheim Museum’s “Art of the Motorcycle” traveling exhibit.
SAMPLE HONORS:
Film Program named Signature Program, Dillard University, 2015-present.
Named to the All-Star Team - Dillard University, 2014-15.
Media Educator of the Year Award by the Social Change Film Fest and Institute, 2012.
Nominated: “Gutter King” (writer/dir/prod) for Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor, Best Breakout Action Star at Action on Film Fest 2010
Winner: “Flying Tiger” (writer/dir/prod) for Best Feature, Arizona Film & TV Festival, 2008
CREATE Award (with Brand Architecture) for design, Orlando, 2008.
Key Assist with Brand Architecture’s win of OSI Restaurant Partners Inc. - Purveyor of the Year Award, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Key Assist with Bernard Hodes NYC’s win of the NACE award for Excellence in Advertising
Guest Speaker--University of Notre Dame Film, Theater and Television 2003.
Winner: “The Clinic” (writer/dir/prod) – Best Screenplay (out of 180 films), NY Int’l Film and Video Fest, 2001
More info: http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1098853/
Morris PDF of Dillard Film work (case studies!): https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fzzf2w0epvkmuf/DillardFilm_PROGRAM_CASE_STUDIES_2016_med.pdf?dl=0
Morris on IMDB:
https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm1098853
or
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1098853
