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Kurt Engfehr grew up next to a steel mill 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 was TV.

After living and failing all over the country, he settled in New York City where he worked at HBO, MSNBC and National Video Center (among other places)as a staff Avid editor. He edited promos and programs for Lifetime, CBS and ABC; he also created a series of short films featuring Chernobyl, the guitar playing penguin. Kurt was senior editor on Michael Moore's Emmy nominated show "The Awful Truth" (1999).

Kurt then segued from TV to film by working on Bowling for Columbine (2002) for which he won the American Cinema Editors award for best documentary editing. The trophy is proudly displayed on the mantle above the fireplace, right next to the last award he won, a 3rd place Thanksgiving Day Bowling Tournament trophy from 1987.

Not being able to pry himself away from bowling, Kurt was co-producer and editor for the documentary _A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2004)_, that won the Audience Award at the 2004 SXSW Film Festival. Kurt then decided he didn't need any rest and worked on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). It turned out ok.

Kurt then worked on Seamless (2005) a movie about NY fashion directed by Doug Keeve, who previously made, Unzipped (1995) which most people found ironic considering just how much Kurt knows about fashion. He followed that up by editing Angelina Jolie's directing debut, the documentary, A Place in Time (2007) which can currently be seen by nobody as it sits in her closet. He was then co-producer and editor on the documentary Trumbo (2007) based on the off-Broadway play about Dalton Trumbo which uses his letters as the basis for telling the story of his being one of the blacklisted writers in Hollywood during the 1950's.

A string of producing roles followed, starting with Taking Liberties (2007) a UK doc about the erosion of civil liberties under Tony Blair that just had a theatrical run and garnered it's director, Chris Atkins, a BAFTA nomination. He followed that up with a doc about the selling of beauty called America the Beautiful (2007)and Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008)a documentary about steroids, cheating, and excess in America, and which is sure to be a big hit in the Selig and Clemens households. Kurtis also producing a documentary about the band Manic Street Preachers,who Rolling Stone magazine called, the best band you've never heard of.

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