Kimberly Stuckwisch is a writer and director of projects that bring her joy, and whose film school wasn't film school at all. It was getting her hands dirty by assistant directing more than a dozen independent features before she was twenty-six, creative producing for some of the world's most innovative directors, and figuring out how to solve impossible challenges with duct tape, out-of-the-box thinking, and sheer optimism.

That scrappy mentality still drives everything she makes today. Kimberly loves building cinematic worlds where magical realism crashes into grounded performances, where practical effects beat visual effects, and where the funniest moments usually reveal something painfully human. Whether she's making Megan Thee Stallion float through a dreamspace, staging a full-blown Moschino musical on the Universal backlot, or directing original films like Canvas, The Perfect Girl, and her up-and-coming feature Suebird, she's always chasing the same thing: finding the humanity hiding inside the absurd and revealing the light deep within the shadows. 

Her work has been recognized by the Clios, SXSW, the UKMVAs, Cannes, the Berlin Commercial Awards, MTV, Shots, and the 1.4 Awards, with collaborators including Walmart, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, Moschino, Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R., Bob Dylan, PinkPantheress, Angel Olsen, and Megan Thee Stallion. She's also the co-founder and President of Los Angeles' Elysian Theater, where years of making comedy with some of the funniest people alive permanently rewired her brain. Proudly clown-adjacent, Kimberly believes actors do their best work when they're free to play, every set should include a necessary dance break, and if you can spend three months engineering an in-camera effect instead of using CGI... you absolutely should give it a go. :)