Keegan Kuhn
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Keegan Kuhn | |
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.jpg) Kuhn in 2016 | |
| Born | United States |
| Occupations | Film director, film producer, musician |
Keegan Kuhn is an American documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and professional musician.[1] He is best known for co-directing the documentary films Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) and What the Health (2017), along with Kip Andersen.[2]
Kuhn is the owner of First Spark Media, a digital film production company, which focuses on creating films surrounding social justice issues[3] for companies and non-profits.[4] He also started First Spark Gear, a camera accessory company.[5] 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.[6]
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.[7] In addition to topics like environmental destruction and animal rescue, his work has involved subjects like gender inequality, Buddhism, and endurance sports.[5]
Kuhn is the creator of educational music project True Nature.[5]
Personal life
Kuhn currently resides in the East Bay region of San Francisco with his wife Shani Campbell, a Certified Cat Behaviorist.[8] For most of his life he has been working with nonprofit organizations and assisting in social justice movements.[7] He has been vegan for decades.[9] He spends his day biking and kayaking as much as possible.
Filmography
- Turlock (2013, director)[10]
- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014, director, producer, writer, cinematographer, composer)[11]
- What the Health (2017, director, producer, writer)[12]
- They're Trying To Kill Us (2021, producer)[13]
Kuhn was also interviewed in the 2021 documentary Milked, which was influenced by Cowspiracy.[14] As of August 2020 he is producing a documentary entitled The End of Medicine, which is directed by Alex Lockwood.[15] Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix are involved in the project.[16]