LAURA KUHN

Laura Kuhn is an award-winning creative director, producer and filmmaker working across documentary, non-fiction, and branded content. Laura began her career at CBS’ 60 Minutes where she served on the production team for the multi-award-winning and Emmy-nominated “Washington Insiders.” The reporting was mentioned in Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address and resulted in the passage of the U.S. STOCK Act, banning Congresspersons from Insider Trading. Laura went on to work for National Geographic’s longest running docuseries, Explorer, where she travelled the globe reporting on Philippines’ President Duterte’s Drug War, a pre-World Cup Russian State crackdown on soccer hooligans, and an Ecuadorian effort to conserve the world’s last original chocolate plant. Today, Laura works as a creative development strategist, film director and creative producer, making long-form and feature-length documentary work and consulting for production companies and brands making insight-based content for clients. Most recently she Senior Produced Black Gold, an expose into Exxon’s efforts to cover up its internal research on climate change. Produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, the film was released theatrically and as a three-part docuseries on Paramount+. Laura has also directed several series for MasterClass, including Roy Choi’s class on Intuitive Cooking which ranked among the sites’ top five highest performing classes. A producer, reporter, interviewer and writer, Laura engages fully with all aspects of visual content creation from development, through filming and post-production. Her work is marked by strong visual storytelling, curiosity, and a human-first lens. Laura is based in New York.