Los Angeles-based Boxer Films has signed Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner for US representation. His critically acclaimed doc Food, Inc. has garnered numerous accolades including an Emmy Award win and an Academy Award nomination and is one of the top grossing theatrical documentaries of all time.
“I enjoy constantly evolving as a filmmaker,” notes Kenner. “It’s a struggle to get people to movie theaters, so I strive to deliver content in a new filmic language that is entertaining, provocative and surprising. As a storyteller, I work to make an emotional connection with the audience and it is exciting to be able to do that in a :30 or :60 format again.”
Kenner earned an Emmy and a Peabody for his PBS documentary Two Days in October, depicting simultaneous events in 1967: a deadly Viet Cong ambush and a violent campus protest. He has directed numerous specials for National Geographic and PBS’ American Experience series and recently completed the online dating doc, When Strangers Click for HBO.
Kenner’s body of filmmaking and commercial work has earned him various awards including multiple Emmy Awards, Telly Awards, an IDA Award, Genesis Award, Gotham Award as well as awards from various international film festivals. His thoughtful storytelling approach to documentary content can also be seen in commercials and branded content for such top brands as Hallmark, eBay, MapQuest, Hewlett-Packard and Walmart. Kenner was previously repped by Nonfiction.
Notes EP Beth George, “We are thrilled to have Robby join Boxer. He brings not only an extremely high level of experience and creative thinking to his work, but also a boundless energy and a fundamental humorous loving view of the world around him. He is a real pleasure to be in the presence of.”
New York native Kenner jumped into the film industry fresh out of school, traveling around the country working on a roller derby documentary at the age of 18. After a brief stint working on scripted films in Los Angeles, he embraced his penchant for traveling and meeting interesting people by returning to documentary content. He worked on numerous projects for National Geographic and PBS, delving into a range of topics including American Abolitionist John Brown, the 1918 Influenza outbreak, the royal Russian Romanov family, American war letters, among others. He was a co-filmmaker with Richard Pearce on The Road to Memphis for the Martin Scorsese series, “The Blues” in 2003 before moving onto the PBS documentary Two Days in October in 2005. Kenner made a big splash in 2008 with the controversial documentary Food, Inc., produced by Participant Media, digging unabashedly into the corrupt American food production industry. On the heel’s of the film’s success, he shifted towards a more humanistic topic in the online dating doc, When Strangers Click for HBO. Kenner is currently living in Los Angeles and working on a new feature documentary project with Participant Media.
About Boxer
Comprised of award-winning filmmakers, shooters, cutters and development minds, LA-based Boxer Films is an ideas machine where collaboration is king.
Since 1999, Boxer has delivered with this as its credo, continually breaking new ground in branded content, interactive and broadcast. Founder/EP John Clark, EP Beth George and EP John Barrerio have fostered a results-driven, family-like creative culture that makes Boxer the ideal creative partner in any quest for exceptional storytelling.
Boxer director Jim Zoolalian’s 14-minute short film “Miracle” recently took home a Coup de Coeur at the 64th Cannes International Film Festival and Boxer director Rodrigo Garcia Saiz received a 2011 Cannes Gold Lion and a Bronze in the London International Awards for his AMIS :30, “Office.”
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