page_title: Kurt Kuenne
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Kurt Kuenne / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Kurt Kuenne is an American filmmaker and composer. He has directed a number of short and feature films, including Rent-a-Person, the YouTube film Validation, described as "a romantic epic in miniature", and the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
context_page_description: Kurt Kuenne is an American filmmaker and composer. He has directed a number of short and feature films, including Rent-a-Person, the YouTube film Validation, described as "a romantic epic in miniature", and the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
context_section_description: Kuenne was born October 24, 1973 in Mountain View, California  He grew up in Northern California and began making films aged seven on Super 8 film and later video. He attended Lynbrook High School and then studied film at University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, where he made Remembrances (1995) and was awarded the Harold Lloyd Scholarship in Film Editing. Kuenne then studied film composing, but returned to directing with feature Scrapbook (1999). In 2002 he was awarded an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for a script titled Mason Mule.
caption: Kurt Kuenne in 2008
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