Keegan Kuhn is an American documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and professional musician.
Career and work
Kuhn is the owner of First Spark Media, a digital film production company, which focuses on creating films surrounding social justice issues
for companies and non-profits.
He also started First Spark Gear, a camera accessory company.
In 2018, it was announced that he would be a partner for a project entitled "Fertile Ground: Inspiring Dialogue About Food Access" that received a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant to use art as a medium to help local communities and inform nutrition policy in Jackson, Mississippi.
His work on films have taken him to extreme locations, from the Alaskan wilderness to the American West, where he filmed the remaining wild horses in the United States.
Kuhn is the creator of educational music project True Nature.
Personal life
Kuhn currently resides in the
East Bay region of San Francisco with his wife Shani Campbell, a Certified Cat Behaviorist.
For most of his life he has been working with nonprofit organizations and assisting in social justice movements.
He has been vegan for decades.
He spends his day biking and kayaking as much as possible.
Filmography
Kuhn's film projects include:
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Turlock (2013, director)
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(2014, director, producer, writer, cinematographer, composer)
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What the Health (2017, director, producer, writer)
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They're Trying To Kill Us (2021, producer)
He was also interviewed in the 2021 documentary Milked, which was influenced by Cowspiracy.
Kuhn is currently producing a documentary entitled The End of Medicine, which is directed by Alex Lockwood.
Bibliography
Awards
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2018 Cinema for Peace Award Nominee, Most Valuable Documentary of the Year, What the Health (2014), shared with Kip Andersen
