Kurt Kuenne
Known for
Directing
Born
October 24, 1973 (age 52)
Birthplace
Mountain View, California, USA
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 Screenwri...
Best known work
The Blacklist
2013
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008
Validation
2007
Shuffle
2012
Batkid Begins
2015
Rent-A-Person
2004
Slow
2008
Bad Seed
2000
The Legacy of Dear Zachary: A Journey to Change the Law
2013
Dear Santa
2020Filmography
2026
2024
I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh StoryAdditional Camera
2022
2020
Dear SantaAdditional Editing
2015
Batkid BeginsWriter, Editor
2013
2013
The Legacy of Dear Zachary: A Journey to Change the Lawas Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
2012
ShuffleWriter, Director, Editor, Original Music Composer, Producer, Director of Photography
2008
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Fatheras Self (voice), Director, Sound, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Music, Writer
2008
SlowDirector of Photography, Writer, Director, Producer, Sound, Editor, Music
2008
The Phone BookDirector of Photography, Writer, Sound, Editor, Producer, Music, Director
2007
ValidationDirector, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Original Music Composer
2004
Rent-A-PersonDirector of Photography, Writer, Director, Editor, Sound, Producer, Music
2003
Hunting of ManMusic
2001
Drive-In Movie MemoriesDirector, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer, Sound Designer, Editor
2000
Bad SeedOriginal Music Composer
1999
ScrapbookSound Designer, Music, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director
1995
RemembrancesDirector, Producer, Music, Writer, Orchestrator, Editor