Jim Kuehnel

Jim Kuehnel spent most of his adult life in the entertainment industry. Before getting behind the camera and turning his focus onto film, he produced records, national tours, corporate functions, comedy festivals, and a variety of large scale events. He booked thousands of shows across North America and Europe and has toured extensively on both continents, as well as China. As family life became a priority, he left the heavy travels behind and turned to passing on his knowledge to the next generations and started a private arts college and a video production company where he became heavily involved in the creative process. The idea for his first full-length feature film "The Pitch" combined his deep understanding of how entertainers think with the desire to showcase a fairly unknown area of the entertainment business. "These artists perform in front of tens of thousands of people world wide every week," says Kuehnel about the street performing buskers featured in the film, "and nobody has a clue who they are. I was intrigued to find out why they picked the street as their venue of choice and what challenges they face." "The Pitch" offers a rare insight into a world few people know much about in a field that has the broadest audiences world wide that includes every age group, economic and racial background and has next to no language barriers. Jim is working on several ideas for his next feature film.