Kurt Kuenne

Biography

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),”Validation” (2006), “Slow” (2007), and “The Phone Book” (2008) – which won 40+ awards at 120+ film festivals worldwide. In 2008, he completed his 6 year passion project, the documentary “Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father“, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. The film wa…

Directed

1. The Blacklist (2013) — Director
2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) — Director
3. Validation (2007) — Director
4. Shuffle (2012) — Director
5. Slow (2008) — Director
6. Rent-A-Person (2004) — Director
7. The Legacy of Dear Zachary: A Journey to Change the Law (2013) — Director
8. Drive-In Movie Memories (2001) — Director
9. Scrapbook (1999) — Director
10. Remembrances (1995) — Director
11. The Phone Book (2008) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) — Self (voice)
2. The Legacy of Dear Zachary: A Journey to Change the Law (2013) — Narrator (voice)