Kenneth Kokin (Ken Kokin) is an American film producer, director, and executive.
Kokin produced The Usual Suspects, Mortdecai, The Way of the Gun, Forbidden Kiss in Chengdu, China and Captain Abu Raed, the Sundance Audience Award-winner in the festival’s World Dramatic Competition. This was the first independent film produced in Jordan. His film Public Access, directed by Bryan Singer, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
As an executive, Kokin worked for several years heading production and development for Perfect World Pictures as well as consulting for NBCUniversal.
Kokin produced and directed the documentary For Tomorrow in Argentina, which was an official selection for the Tribeca Film Festival and the Newport Beach Film Festival, where he won the Humanitarian Vision Award. This groundbreaking documentary premiered in 10 film festivals and won many other awards, and created awareness for Toms Shoes
He directed Blood Moon, starring James Callis, Maya Kazan, and Frank Medrano, directed by Nicholas Kazan.[1]
He directed documentaries in South America, Haiti, and Africa about the pandemic of poverty and HIV facing children in those regions.
Kokin attended the University of Southern California's cinema department.
Kokin joined the Editor’s Guild and worked at both NBC and Amblin Entertainment. CBS hired Kokin to shoot, edit and direct the behind-the-scenes for the longest-running annual special, Circus of the Stars, where he worked with lions and tigers, and did motorcycle stunts as well as high-wire and trapeze acts.