Kyle Henry

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American film director

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Kyle Henry is an American independent filmmaker, editor, and educator. Henry teaches film production at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, while also spending time in Los Angeles and Austin.

He received his undergraduate degree from Rice University in art and art history in 1994 and his MFA from University of Texas-Austin in film production in 1999.

Films

Henry's feature narrative debut Room (2005), a mid-life crisis thriller, premiered at Sundance’s Frontier and Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sections in 2005. It was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including the John Cassavetes Award for best low-budget narrative, receiving a wide release.

Henry's latest feature Rogers Park (2018), about two interracial couples going through mid-life crisis, is currently 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is a NY Times Critics Pick. His Fourplay (2012), an anthology-of-shorts feature comprising four tales of sexual intimacy and transgression. Fourplay has been screened at Outfest in Los Angeles, Sundance, Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, and was a High Jury Commendation at Iris Prize. It went on a US theatrical tour in select cities and has since been released on DVD. In his official director's statement, Henry stated about the film, “All of us want to see aspects of our lives represented so that we know we’re here, so that we know that we’re alive and we know we’re not alone.”

His feature documentaries include University Inc. (1999), about the corporatization of higher education that toured nationwide with funding from filmmakers Richard Linklater and Michael Moore, and American Cowboy (1998), about a gay rodeo champ, which won a regional Student Academy Award. His short N.ew Y.ork C.asino (2002), about Times Square as a consumerist slot machine, won Best Experimental film at South by Southwest and played at museums and gallery spaces worldwide.

He has received several grants from the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund in addition to the numerous festivals his films have played at, in addition to being a United States Artists Fellowship nominee and Rockefeller Media Artist Fellowship nominee.

His next production in development is a biopic about Emily Dickinson. It was accepted into the 2015 Film Independent Fast Track program for development.

Editing

Henry was the editor of the Best Narrative Feature winner at Tribeca and at South by Southwest and Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast, Manito (2001), and nine feature documentaries including the 2012 Emmy Award-winning Where Soldiers Come From (2010), for which he also received, with director Heather Courtney, the Best Documentary Editing Award at SXSW in 2011.

Filmography

Director

  • Rogers Park (2018)
  • Half-Life of War (2015)
  • Fourplay (2013)
  • Room
  • N.ew Y.ork C.asino (short - 2002)
  • University Inc. (1999)
  • Orson Welles Not Taco Bells (Splitscreen segment - 1998)
  • American Cowboy (1998)
  • Monday Morning (1996)
  • Pop Love (1995)

Editor

  • Before You Know It (2013)
  • Where Soldiers Come From (2011)
  • Trinidad (2008)
  • Dream in Doubt (2007)
  • Audience of One (2006)
  • The Cassidy Kids (2005)
  • Letters from the Other Side (2005)
  • Troop 1500 (2005)
  • Learning to Swallow (2005)
  • Are the Kids Alright? (2004)
  • Soviet Meditation (2003)
  • Manito (2001)
  • The Slow Business of Going (2000)
  • Togetherless (short - 1999)

References

References

  1. "Kyle Henry". School of Communication, Northwestern University.
  2. Weinberg, Scott. (January 12, 2005 ). ["Sundance '05 Interview: 'Room' Director Kyle Henry"](https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~calp/feature.html ). HBS Entertainment, Inc..
  3. (June 25, 2006 ). ["indieWIRE INTERVIEW: Kyle Henry, Director of "Room""](https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/indiewire-interview-kyle-henry-director-of-room-76521/ ). Penske Media Corporation.
  4. Tully, Michael. (January 21, 2012). "FOURPLAY: TAMPA".
  5. Odam, Matthew. (February 7–8, 2013 / Filmmaker wants to talk about sex / Henry / Sex more than just nudity"](http://www.statesman.com/news/entertainment/movies/filmmaker-kyle-henry-looks-to-connect-with-fourpla/nWGkP/). Austin American-Statesman.
  6. Sbrizzi, Paul. (July 18, 2012). "A Conversation with Kyle Henry and Paul Soileau (FOURPLAY)".
  7. Henry, Kyle. (August 23, 2007). "Kyle Henry". Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF); Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Independent Media Publications.
  8. "Kyle Henry : Filmography". The New York Times Company.
  9. Black, Louis. (March 12, 2004). ["Once Upon a Time in Austin: The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene"](https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/once-upon-a-time-in-austin-11718267/ ). The Austin Chronicle.
  10. Savlov, Marc. (May 8, 1998). ["Cowboys and Controversy: Kyle Henry and the Texas Documentary Tour / Kyle Henry's American Cowboy"](https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/cowboys-and-controversy-11733710/ ). The Austin Chronicle.
  11. Shen, Ted. (December 13, 2002). "American Cowboy". .
  12. Jones, Kimberley. (November 20, 2009). ["Goodbye to All That: Revisiting Kyle Henry’s ‘University Inc.’ and a film community’s cri de coeur"](https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/goodbye-to-all-that-11746280/ ). The Austin Chronicle.
  13. "Curriculum Vitae, School of Communication, Northwestern University".
  14. "Kyle Henry talks sex on film: A Q&A; with FOURPLAY director / Director Kyle Henry (MFA '99) talks sex on film: FOURPLAY: now playing Alamo Drafthouse Village". Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin.
  15. Klorfein, Jason. (October 3, 2012). "FOURPLAY: Interview with Director Kyle Henry". Keep the Lights On: a film by Ira Sachs.
  16. (June 16, 2015). "FILM INDEPENDENT SELECTS 10 PROJECTS AND 21 FIL(M)MAKERS FOR 2015 FAST TRACK PROGRAM (AND AWARDS $70K IN ALFRED P. SLOAN GRANTS)". Film Independent.
  17. "Manito". Sundance Institute.
  18. ["Manito (2002) : Cast, Credits & Awards : Awards "](http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/259845/Manito/awards ). The New York Times Company.
  19. "Kyle Henry". Sundance Institute.
  20. Catsoulis, Jeannette. (September 8–14, 2011 ). ["From Michigan to Afghanistan, and Back"](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/movies/where-soldiers-come-from-review.html?_r=0 ). The New York Times.
  21. . (March 18, 2011). ["SXSW 2011 Film Awards: Jury and audience award winners announced"](https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw-2011-film-awards-11750830/). *The Austin Chronicle*.
  22. "Before You Know It - Schedule".

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