Keegan Kuhn

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Keegan Kuhn
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Occupation(s)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 and What the Health , along with Kip Andersen. [2]

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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 [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

Kuhn's film projects include:

He was also interviewed in the 2021 documentary Milked, which was influenced by Cowspiracy. [14]

Kuhn is currently 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]

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Awards

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  16. ↑ @veganuary (August 13, 2020). "Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have teamed up with @Cowspiracy filmmaker, Keegan Kuhn and award-winning '73 Cows' director, @LockwoodFilm to executive produce a documentary about factory farming and the harms this industry poses. 🏭🐄 Follow https://facebook.com/theendofmedicine/ for updates" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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