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L.M. 'Kit' Carson (born 1947 in Dallas, Texas) is an actor and screenwriter. Mr. Carson is an award-winning screenwriter/actor/producer and director working both Independent and with Hollywood Studios. He’s a well-known writer/producer in development/production on projects at Disney, Paramount, Columbia, and UA. Mr. Carson started in documentaries (in college he was an editor on the pioneer cinema-verite team of Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker). His first film was a breakthrough mock-documentary, David Holzman’s Diary – which won film festivals and was selected for the archives of The U.S. Library of Congress Collection – as one of two hundred "American Film Treasures." His directed-documentaries include American Dreamer (movie-icon Dennis Hopper); currently Remember Tomorrow (visions of the future). Mr. Carson has written for ESQUIRE, ROLLING STONE, VARIETY, TEXAS MONTHLY and GQ. His journalism is anthologized in several books on American Culture; he’s in current editions of Who’s Who in US Writers, Editors & Poets. He’s published screenplays for David Holzman’s Diary and Paris, Texas. Mr. Carson is a jury-member (Sundance, Mannheim) for the international Motion Picture Arts Industry. One of the original fellows at the launch of The Sundance Institute, Mr. Carson remains actively involved with the Institute’s Writing Workshops. He’s a Founding Board Member of the Nantucket ScreenWriters Colony; an Advisor to the international eQuinoxe Writers Labs. Mr. Carson was a Film Lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University; was honored by the University of Dallas as Distinguished Lecturer in the Arts; and taught in the Film Division at Columbia University. He’s served as the Film Grant Advisor for The Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities; nominator for The Rockefeller Foundation /NVR Grants; and received several grants from The National Endowment for The Arts. Mr. Carson has been awarded a prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship. As a producer, Mr. Carson’s been instrumental in discovering and bringing notable new filmmakers (actors, writers, directors such as Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Guillermo del Toro) into the production and distribution of their first features. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY magazine profiled Mr. Carson as "The Big Brother of Independent Film"; The New York Times described him as "semi-legendary". Some of Mr. Carson’s movies: David Holzman’s Diary (actor/co-screenwriter); Breathless (screenwriter); Paris, Texas (adaptation); Bottle Rocket (co-producer); Running On Empty (actor); CQ (actor). Some awards: Mannheim Film Festival (GRAND PRIZE) David Holzman’s Diary; Cannes Film Festival (PALM D’OR) Paris, Texas; ACE/EMMY Award "Why Are You Here?; Sundance Film Festival (TRIPLE AWARDS) Hurricane Streets.