Keith Alan Morris

American director, producer (b. 1972)

Keith Alan Morris (born October 9, 1972 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American writer/film director and producer. His most notable films include Gutter King, Flying Tiger, and The Clinic, all of which screened at the Cannes Film Fest Market. He wrote and directed the documentary R. U. B. s in the Guggenheim Museum's "Art of the Motorcycle" exhibit.

Morris was born in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Ronald and Susan Morris. He grew up there, where he attended Adams High School and also Niles First Assembly High School in Niles, Michigan, where he was salutatorian. He won a scholarship to Kalamazoo College to study political science and theater communications, earning a B. A. with Honors in 1994. While there he made short films and two feature films, The Outside Man and The in Crowd, which won him the Cooper Award and Schneider Prize before graduating in 1994. He attended Instituto Internacional, Madrid, Spain (1993) and University of Central Florida – MFA, Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema Track.

Morris' first feature, The Clinic won Best Screenplay for a Feature Film (out of 180 films) at the New York International Independent Film Fest, and received representation at the Cannes Film Fest Market. Flying Tiger screened at the Cannes Film Festival Market and won Best Feature at the Arizona Film and TV Fest in 2008. It was shot in Stockton, Missouri, with a student crew from Indiana (where he trained the students for one year prior). Flying Tiger is about a senior in high school who can fly. It has been compared to the early films of Martin Scorsese in that "the violence is dealt with extreme care and respect, as opposed to the superficiality with which we are used to seeing from directors like Guy Ritchie, Danny Boyle or David Fincher." After Gutter King, Sample approved artwork for one is available on an unofficial Keith Alan Morris website of his films, ufo tech. com. He produced two films in 2015 and was production consultant on 10 others, including The Magnificent Seven remake.