Writer/Director

Ron King’s first award-winning feature documentary, The Millionaires’ Unit – The First U.S. Naval Aviators in World War I, (narrated by Bruce Dern, co-directed with Darroch Greer) played in film festivals nationwide and on PBS in 2021. The film is available to stream on Amazon Prime. Ron is currently developing a narrative television series based on the same story with author Marc Wortman and revered story artist and director Christian Gossett Vilá.

Ron’s credits include Executive Producing, The Lafayette Escadrille and writing/directing the shorts, Visitor and Rose is a Rose is a Rose (co-written with Daniel Hagen). Ron is also collaborating with writer/director Jessica Janos on Fallout, a feature film that utilizes footage from Ron’s black & white 16mm film of the same name, shot Guerrilla style on the streets of New York City in 1984.

Ron’s career began as a child actor on Bay Area stages in the 1970’s and at ACT in San Francisco through his high school years. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University where he created works including his first Super 8mm short, featuring classmate Holly Hunter and the band The Rave-Ups. Ron has performed in theater both in the United States and abroad. He has appeared in films & television and migrated to positions behind the camera in the early 2000s. 

Ron’s training in film includes classes at UCLA and The American Film Institute. In 2008, Ron was a founding member and first president of Humanus Documentary Films Foundation and in 2018 Ron incorporated RMK Films Inc., “a home for independent cinema”. 

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Guilt can be a killer. Yet if we face our past deeds, learn acceptance and forgiveness we can open ourselves to mental, spiritual and emotional renewal. But how do we get there? Particularly when our unresolved issues have destroyed our world? Leon, born into a military family, finds himself embroiled in war in Afghanistan while defending his country following the horrific terrorist attacks of 9-11. Forty years later, his emotional and mental damage unresolved, Leon is guided by an angel and a maverick medical professional to find a new beginning.

Viztor is a supernatural drama about redemption. It is exciting, terrifying, and in the end, life-affirming. A sobering wake-up call that is explosive, shattered, deranged, remedied and reborn.

The main settings of the story progresses from Afghanistan in 2002 to the drought plagued American Midwest in 2044 and finally to a healing institute utilizing therapeutic psychedelics to achieve mental, emotional and spiritual stability. Along the way, we experience the harsh realities of bone shredding combat, drunken destruction and the soul cleansing revival of mature love.

Viztor is a love story of Leon, his wife Roseanne, their daughter Tanya, grand-daughter Abigail and Leon’s war buddy Cliff, all woven into an unforgettable tapestry that leaves us stunned, silenced and contemplative about our opportunity to live and discover a life of grace.