Kimberly Stuckwisch
Production
Biography
Kimberly Stuckwisch is an award-winning triple-threat director, writer, and producer who divides her time between the money and the creative side of film, television, commercial, theatre, and music video production. Kimberly built a career as a vocal supporter of bold creative ideas with her work often bringing awareness to timely social issues and breaking conventional expectations. Her works have showcased at Sundance, Cannes, SXSW, TIFF, the Hammer Museum, MTV, Camerimage, The Public Theatre, and on theater screens throughout the world. Kimberly skipped film school and dove right into production where she began her career as a feature film First Assistant Director. By the age of 23, Kimberly AD'd over a dozen indie films. Soon after, Kimberly second unit directed numerous films including "Remarkable Power" with Evan Peters, Tom Arnold, and Kevin Nealon, "Play the Game" with Andy Griffith, Doris Roberts, and Liz Sheridan, and "The Deadline" with Brittany Murphy and Thora Birch. In 2016, Kimberly produced the "Hamilton Mixtape- Immigrants We Get the Job Done" music video with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Robert Rodriguez executive producing, which went on to win an MTV VMA for "Best Music Video with a Message" and a Bronze Clio. In 2017, she partnered with EndHIV to create a music video for Sia's "Free Me" starring Zoe Saldana and Julianne Moore, where all proceeds from the single were donated to the #endHIV campaign. In 2018, Kimberly produced "K-12", an album movie shot in Budapest with Melanie Martinez directing which garnered 28 million views on YouTube in less than a month. She premiered her first narrative feature "Summertime", directed by Carlos López Estrada, on opening night Sundance 2020 in the NEXT category. The movie, a poetic love letter to Los Angeles, was written and performed by 27 diverse Los Angeles youth. She is currently (2020) finishing production on her first feature documentary "The Kids Are Not Alright", an investigative documentary that explores the vast scope of the Troubled Teen Industry, a sprawling, for-profit network of cult-like reform programs for "wayward teens" currently operating in the United States. Mikaela Shwer is directing. Kimberly has directed music videos for Margo Price (Best New Artist Grammy Nominee), Samm Henshaw's "The World Is Mine" which received Gold for Best International Music Video at the Kinsale Shark Awards, and Broken Bells "Good Luck" which won the New Generation Award at the Berlin Commercial Awards, is in competition at Camerimage 2020, and is shortlisted for a 2020 UK Music Video Award.
Known For
Best friends, Carl and Lester, find themselves magically transported into an alternate universe straight out of a real-life adult movie. Hilarity ensues as they embark upon a journey of adult-themed mayhem while Carl ultimately finds true love in the most unlikely of places.
Deep in the Valley
Without warning, millions of mysterious alien “doors” suddenly appear around the globe. In a rush to determine the reason for their arrival, mankind must work together to understand the purpose of these cosmic anomalies.
Doors
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.
K-12
The senior class plans to have a skip-day party at the principal's house until Adam Harris leaks the secret, so he decides to save the celebration by hosting it at his house.
Senior Skip Day
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Deadline
Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver—they all weave in and out of each other's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
Summertime
Olivia Rodrigo performs her #1 debut album SOUR during her senior year prom.
SOUR Prom
Pitted against each other since youth and raised to believe true artists are only formed through suffering, the sisters reunite after years of estrangement. One sister learns authenticity, the other regret, but neither escapes the sins of their father.
Canvas
A story about separation.
Identity Theft
Despite decades of documented abuse and hundreds of deaths, thousands of teenagers across the United States are held in cultlike reform programs that generate multibillion-dollar profits with little to no government oversight. Told through the personal lens of three families' journeys through what's come to be known as the "troubled teen industry," THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT is an intimate portrait of trauma and what it means to survive that asks if healing is possible in the absence of justice.
The Kids Are Not Alright
Burdened by an expired visa, a young couple spend what could be their last night together.
Sunday
Big Time, the visual counterpart to Angel Olsen's album of the same name, is the story of light versus shadow told through a non-linear surrealist dreamspace that poses one central dilemma. ‘What lengths must one go through to let go of the past in order to step out of the darkness and accept one’s true self?’ It’s a story that targets deep rooted complexities such as how our unconscious deals with repressed sexual identity, the hardships of letting go of our past selves in order to step into self actualization, and the guilt we hold when dealing with loss.
Big Time
HIT TV is a love letter to 80's Action-Thrillers. The short takes place in a neon 80's city called Emerald Bay. An illegal TV show has mysteriously appeared every night posting murderous bounties. The organization running the show, highjacks broadcast channels to air a seedy and haunting call-to-action where people are identified for murder and priced accordingly. Happy Hunting, Players…