Kyvon Edwin

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, 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 is a member The Gotham, Black TV and Film Collective and the Black Film Space. Prior training and mentorship programs include Bushwick Film Institute with industry mentors from HBO, ESPN, and B&H. Most recently, he was a fellow of the Black Film Space Mentorship Cohort 2025, an NAACP Director Finalist 2025 and a Director finalist of the Tyler Perry Studios Dream Collective 2025. He also participated in the inaugural Sprint Accountability program from The Gotham in 2025. 

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 slate includes Lettre La (Director,Producer- Aspire TV), Mumma (Producer, Wavelength), In/Finite (Director, NAACP Studios) and Bagay La Nou Pòté(Director, Producer, premieres at PAFF, Chelsea Film Festival).