- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- October 24, 1973
- Place of Birth
- Mountain View, California, USA
Kurt Kuenne
Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he won the Harold Lloyd Scholarship in Film Editing, and where he also studied film scoring at the USC School of Music under the tutelage of classic film composers Buddy Baker and David Raksin. His first feature, the teen drama “Scrapbook” (1999), landed him on Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Indie Film feature, and he followed it with “Drive-In Movie Memories” (2001), a documentary about outdoor movies which opened the 2001 Telluride Film Festival and played nationally on PBS. In 2002, he won the AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his screenplay “Mason Mule”, while his screenplay “Explode” made the quarterfinals in the same year. He then directed a series of black & white short musical comedies – “Rent-A-Person” (2003)…
Filmography
movieThe Second Life of Freddie Nole
2026 · Editor
movieI Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story
2024 · Additional Camera
tvDear Santa
2022 · Additional Editor
movieDear Santa
2020 · Additional Editing
movieBatkid Begins
2015 · Writer, Editor
tvThe Blacklist
2013 · Director
movieThe Legacy of Dear Zachary: A Journey to Change the Law
2013 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
movieShuffle
2012 · Writer, Director, Editor, Original Music Composer, Producer, Director of Photography
movieDear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008 · Self (voice), Director, Sound, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Music, Writer
movieSlow
2008 · Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Sound, Editor, Music
movieThe Phone Book
2008 · Director of Photography, Writer, Sound, Editor, Producer, Music
movieValidation
2007 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Original Music Composer
movieRent-A-Person
2004 · Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Sound, Producer, Music
movieHunting of Man
2003 · Music
movieDrive-In Movie Memories
2001 · Director, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer, Sound Designer, Editor
movieBad Seed
2000 · Original Music Composer
movieScrapbook
1999 · Sound Designer, Music, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director
movieRemembrances
1995 · Director, Producer, Music, Writer, Orchestrator, Editor