King's debut feature film
Newlyweeds is about a free-spirited young couple who live in Bedford-Stuyvesant and who prefer to indulge in marijuana and hashish. The film premiered at the
2013 Sundance Film Festival. He presented his next film, Mulignans, in the
USA Narrative Short Films program at the
2015 Sundance Film Festival. His 2017 short film
LaZercism, starring
Lakeith Stanfield, tells of a world in which white people suffer from “racial glaucoma.” Stanfield also appears in King's second feature film,
Judas and the Black Messiah, in which
Daniel Kaluuya plays the role of
Fred Hampton. Angelique Jackson of
Variety has noted that King is one of those "Black filmmakers [who] are offering an unvarnished look at the legacy of the 1960s civil rights era, examining America’s tortured history of racism ..." == Filmography ==