Laura Kuhn

About Laura Kuhn

Laura Kuhn is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker with over 25 feature-length, short, and branded works to her name. Laura began her career at CBS’ 60 Minutes where she served on the production team for the multi-award-winning and Emmy-nominated “Washington Insiders.” The reporting was mentioned in Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address and resulted in the passage of the U.S. STOCK Act, banning Congresspersons from insider trading. Laura went on to work for National Geographic’s longest running docuseries, Explorer, where she travelled the globe reporting on Phillipines’ President Duterte’s Drug War, a pre-World Cup Russian State crackdown on soccer hooligans, and an Ecuadorian effort to conserve the world’s last original chocolate plant. Today, Laura directs and produces long-form and feature-length documentary work. Most recently she Senior Produced Black Gold, an expose into Exxon’s efforts to cover up its internal research on climate change. Produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, the film was released theatrically and as a three-part docuseries on Paramount+. Laura has also directed several series for MasterClass, including Roy Choi’s class on Intuitive Cooking which ranked among the sites’ top five highest performing classes. A producer, reporter, interviewer and writer, Laura engages fully with all aspects of filmmaking from development, through filming and post-production. Her work is marked by strong visual storytelling, curiosity, and a human-first lens. Laura is based in New York.

Experience

1. Senior Creative Producer Director Interviewer

   MasterClass

   Aug 2021 — Present · NY, US

Education

• New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

  Bachelor's degree, Multimedia Journalism

  2008 — 2011