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Kurt Engfehr. Editor: Bowling for Columbine. Kurt Engfehr grew up next to an EPA Superfund waste site in a working class suburb of Detroit. He decided against a career in the plants when a friend had his finger ripped off by a band saw. Kurt saw the future, and it wasn't in Detroit.
- Editor, Producer, Editorial Department
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Kurt's best known as editor & co-producer on the Michael Moore films, Cannes Palme d'Or winning FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and Oscar-winning BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, for which he won the...
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- WibblyWobbly Productions LLC
- Joe Cross
- Kurt Engfehr
- Stacey Offman
- Christopher Seward
- Alison Amron
- John Miller-Monzon
- Robert Mac
- Shane Hodson
- Jamin Mendelsohn
- Karen Pelland
Director/Executive Producer
Joe Cross is an Australian entrepreneur and investor who invests in early stage high potential growth companies. These include investments in the fashion, transportation, private equity finance, derivatives trading, early childhood education, structural steel distribution and health and wellness sectors. Joe began his business career as a trader on the Sydney Futures Exchange where he worked from the early 1980s until 1998. During this time, Joe founded several companies in the derivatives tr...
Director
Kurt Engfehr grew up next to a steel mill in a working class suburb of Detroit. After adventures around the country, he settled in New York City where he worked as an Avid editor at HBO, MSNBC and National Video Center. He edited promos and programs for Lifetime, CBS and ABC and was senior editor on Michael Moore’s Emmy nominated show The Awful Truth (1999). In addition to editing, Kurt also created a series of short films featuring Chernobyl, the guitar playing penguin. Kurt then segued from...
Producer
Stacey Offman is an accomplished documentary and non-fiction television producer based in New York City. For the past 11 years, she has produced numerous feature length documentaries and a variety of programs and series for the IFC, Comedy Central, F/X Network, History Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Recently, Ms. Offman produced Morgan Spurlock’s Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? and the critically acclaimed What Would Jesus Buy? Prior to producing with Spurlock, s...
Editor/Co-Producer
Christopher Seward has ten years experience including television editor for PBS, A&E, The History Channel, Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel and others. He has edited a wide range of documentary subjects including The History of African American Humour, AIDS at 21 and episodes of A&E’s Biography series. Christopher has also edited feature documentaries including Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko. A navy veteran, Christopher is happy to finally blend his politics with his work. He lives in Brooklyn, NY w...
Editor/Co-Producer
Alison Amron is an award-winning documentary editor based in New York City. Working as an editor for over twenty years, with vast experience in both long- and short-form documentaries, Alison has worked with everyone from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney to legendary journalist Bill Moyers. Her work has been seen on ABC, PBS, CBS and the vast array of cable networks. Alison has also worked in the good company of Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters, Linda Ellerbee and Meredith Vieira. Starting o...
Co-Producer
A New York-based producer, researcher and development consultant, Miller-Monzon’s recent projects include Oscar winner THE COVE and Indie Spirit Award winner CRAZY LOVE. Additional credits include the Peabody Award winning doc miniseries BLACK MAGIC and the Emmy-nominated doc miniseries MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES: A MUSICAL JOURNEY and A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE, as well as the cult sitcom STRANGERS WITH CANDY and THE SMOKING GUN TV. A former film industry analyst, he has edited sev...
Executive Producer
Robert Mac is a second generation filmmaker and writer. His work has been screened at Festivals all over the world, including the Sundance Film Festival. His documentary Small Poppies featured academy award winning actor, Geoffrey Rush performing at the Dublin Theatre Festival. He is also the founding director of the world’s first writing marathon, Once Upon A Deadline. He was Executive Producer and of “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead”, a documentary exploring nutrition and natural health featuring...
Executive Producer
Shane Hodson is a Sydney based chartered accountant who over the last 5 years has assisted in managing Joe Cross’ portfolio of investments, including Reboot Media. Prior to this role, Shane was the Chief Operating Officer of the largest specialist advisory firm of its kind in Australia. Shane has an intense personal interest in wellness, having written a number of MBA papers on wellness of a work force and staff productivity. Shane was also a former Ironman triathlete and Australian Full cont...
Production Manager
Jamin Mendelsohn has been working in documentary production for the past 5 years. She worked on Morgan Spurlock’s Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? and What Would Jesus Buy?; the PBS series e2 – Economies Of Being Environmentally Conscious, and most recently as the production manager for Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. Prior to her career in production, Jamin worked as an account executive at strategic communications agency MWW Group. She holds a M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill Sch...
Associate/Field Producer
Karen Pelland is a freelance radio journalist who occasionally dabbles in documentary film. Prior to getting her start at WBUR public radio in Boston in 1999, however, she wandered the grey cubicles of corporate America, not quite sure what it was all about. After moving to New York in 2002, her work ranged from freelance radio gigs to non-profit consulting, documentary film production and book research. Lots of dog sitting, too. In addition to “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead”, her other documenta...
Kurt Engfehr believes his entire career in filmmaking is an accident. A happy accident, perhaps, but an accident nonetheless. After graduating from Trenton High School in 1980, Engfehr didn’t know what he wanted to do, so he spent the next three years working as a waiter and for a mortuary service.
Sep 1, 2014 · Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead: Directed by Joe Cross, Kurt Engfehr. With Joe Cross, Amy Badberg, Merv Cross, Virginia Cross. Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead is an American documentary that chronicles Australian Joe Cross's 60-day journey across the United States, where he embarks on a juice-only fast in a quest to reclaim his health.
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- Documentary
- Joe Cross, Kurt Engfehr
- 2014-09-01
Feb 7, 2012 · That structural awkwardness aside, longtime docu editor Kurt Engfehr does a fine job shaping the pic’s narrative flow in both informative and human terms.
Kurt Engfehr grew up next to an EPA Superfund waste site in a working class suburb of Detroit. After living and failing all over the country, he settled in New York City where he worked for various tv networks such as MSNBC and HBO before becoming senior editor on Michael Moore's Emmy nominated show, The Awful Truth .
