Kirk Fraser

Kirk Fraser (born 12 February 1976) is an American documentary/music video/film director, producer and screenwriter.

Kirk Fraser was born on February 12, 1976, in Kingston, Jamaica and was raised in Lanham, Maryland, where he attended Parkdale High and Laurel High School.

In his senior year, he took a television production class; he continued his filmmaking education at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Fraser made his debut 1999, executive producing the TV series Local Beat — a weekly music magazine format series, featuring regional and national recording artists. In his early days, he directed/produced a few music videos, starting with Jarrard Anthony's "Sweet 16" in 2002. In 2003, he directed/produced the music video for Yahzarah's song Wishing and for the song "Let Me See You Bounce" by Biz Markie featuring Elephant Man.

Fraser's first documentary film, The Life of Rayful Edmond: The Rise and Fall, Vol. I, based on the life of drug trafficker Rayful Edmond, was released on July 12, 2005.

The following year, he teamed up with Lil' Kim and Tracey Edmonds (CEO of Edmonds Entertainment Group Inc.) to develop a reality series, Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown on BET. It was the highest debuting series in BET history with 1.9 million viewers. In the same time period, he also directed music videos for Lil' Kim's songs Lighters Up and Whoa and for Maino's song Stomp (featuring Lil' Kim.)

In 2009, he produced and directed Without Bias, a documentary film on Len Bias. The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 13th Annual American Black Film Festival. In 2009, ESPN selected Fraser to join the list of the top 30 film directors to develop 30 for 30, a series of documentaries in celebration of ESPN's 30th Anniversary.

Fraser executive produced Mayor For Life (2010) — a reality series on the former mayor of Washington, DC Marion Barry.

On April 2, 2015 Fraser launched Blue Mountain Pictures, a production and digital distribution company for feature films and original television series.

In 2017, Fraser directed and produced From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop a documentary that explores the historical, cultural, political and musical elements that created the hip-hop genre. It features present-day conversations with various hip-hop figures such as Rah Digga, DJ Kool Herc, KRS-One, Melle Mel, Abiodun Oyewole, and Coke La Rock.

Most recently, in 2020, Fraser directed and executive produced a sequel to his debut documentary, The Life of Rayful Edmond: The Rise and Fall - Special Edition.

• The Life of Rayful Edmond (2005) (director & executive producer)
• Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown (2006) TV series (producer)
• Against All Odds (2006) TV Movie (director & producer)
• American Gangster (2006–2008) TV series (producer)
• Party Boyz (2009) (executive producer)
• Without Bias (2009) (director & executive producer)