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Kurt Sayenga is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and producer. He has served as the principal creative on many high-end documentary projects, most recently as showrunner for the 2023 National Geographic/Hulu/Disney+ special Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron (which generated an enormous amount of press) and director/writer/showrunner of the 2022 eight-part Shudder miniseries The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time (Shudder's most-watched title for the year and winner of the 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Outstanding Achievement in Horror Film and Television).
Sayenga ran all three seasons of AMC-TV's Eli Roth's History of Horror, writing and directing its 19 hour-long episodes and conducting over 200 interviews for it. The series was awarded a 2020 Reelscreen Award for Non-Fiction Arts and Cultural Program. Interviewees include a host of filmmakers, authors, and scholars including Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Cate Blanchett, Geena Davis, Edgar Wright, Bill Hader, Megan Fox, Ari Aster, Rob Zombie, Greg Nicotero, Nancy Allen, Diablo Cody, Jack Black, Tippi Hedren, John Landis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jordan Peele, Doug Jones, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Richard Donner, Dean Cundey, Robert Englund, Tobin Bell, Tony Todd, Stuart Gordon, Bryan Fuller, Howard Shore, Mary Harron, Tom Savini, Joe Hill, Victor LaValle, Bruce Campbell, Leonard Maltin, and Leigh Whannell. Sayenga also produced seasons two and three of the Shudder podcast Eli Roth's History of Horror Uncut, which is based on interviews conducted for the television series.
Previously, Sayenga ran the eight-part National Geographic docuseries Origins, hosted by Jason Silva, and was EP/showrunner for the first two seasons of the science anthology series Breakthrough, a coproduction of National Geographic Channel, GE, Imagine Entertainment, and Asylum Entertainment. Breakthrough featured films helmed by notable directors and actors including Ron Howard, Paul Giamatti, Angela Bassett, Peter Berg, Akiva Goldsman, Ana Lily Amirpour, David Lowery, Shane Carruth, and The Malloys. Narrators included Howard, Bassett, Giamatti, Adrien Brody (2016 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Narrator), Chris Pine, J.K. Simmons, and Mike Colter. Sayenga wrote and co-directed several episodes.
As an executive producer at Revelations Entertainment, Sayenga wrote, directed, and produced 15 episodes of the Emmy-nominated series Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
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