ZUZKA KURTZ

Executive Producer, Director

Zuzka Kurtz was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She is a multi-media artist, designer and filmmaker residing in NYC.

2009, Produced art video Threads with artist Liz Magic Laser, and Shoes on the Danube with Steve Kimelman.

2010, My Inner Sole, an art and video installation in the Slaughterhouse, Healdsburg Ca.

Produced, wrote and directed My Inner Sole, a dance, prose and puppetry performance, performed in the Off Broadway Lion theater in 2010, with the choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, actor Cynthia Adler, Kathryn Grody, Pepper Fajan, Kenji Nakano and the trumpet player Mac Gollehon.

Produced, wrote and directed in collaboration with Geoffrey Hug a series of nine short films 7 Ways 2 Skin A Cat screened at The Anthology Film Archives in NYC in 2013.

Produced and directed in collaboration with Geoffrey Hug mini-shorts Eat Something and The Seamstress, 2015, with Cori Kresge and Wendy Osserman winners of Best Shorts in Milan and Rome Int’l Film Festivals and Multi Species Family, 2016.

In 2017, Eat Something, The Seamstress and My Inner Sole were screened in the Fábrica de Arte Cubano in Havana, as part of VESTIPHOBIA, directed by Steve Fagin.

2015, Blade #1, a short documentary about five dancers in NYC shaving their hair for money, produced and directed with Geoffrey Hug, with dancers: Cori Kresge, Emily Vetch, Leanne Ferguson, Annie Now, Chelsea Retzloff and Milan Misko was awarded Best Short Documentary at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, NYLA International Film Festival, Spotlight Film Award, Atlanta DocuFest, and Rome International film festival. The film aired on PBS and Amazon Prime.

2022, Hudson, America, a coming of age feature documentary about six Gen-Z, Bangladeshi immigrant students from a small town upstate NY during 2016-2022.

GEOFFREY HUG

Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor

Born in Alabama, Geoffrey Hug founded the Brooklyn-based production company, Oscillating Pictures in 2010. Since then, the company has worked on a variety of documentary and fine-arts projects including the award-winning short films, Blade #1, 7 Ways to Skin a Cat (both with director Zuzka Kurtz), the feature documentary Not a Feather, But a Dot, as well as various projects for the BBC, PBS, Paul McCartney, and Sotheby’s.

Geoffrey recently produced and directed the documentary, HREAM in collaboration with David Byrne’s Luaka Bop, profiling the life and, at age 65, the first world tour of male nurse and low-fi soul artist, Doug Hream Blunt. The film debuted on the Quietus and can currently be seen on Amazon Prime.