Kyle Portbury

Kyle is an Emmy®Award winning writer/director, working across a diverse range of film and television in both animation and live-action. After studying performance at the Drama Centre London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Kyle shot his first short film, "Swan Song" in 2007. Several commissions followed swiftly including "The Mountain Within", his first feature-length documentary, which went on to achieve theatrical release in the UK through the Cinema Europa chain and win various awards including 'best documentary' at Mountain Film Festival in California, screening at other prestigious festivals including the 20th Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film Festival in Belfast. Since then, Kyle has continued to seek out and tell great stories, where ever they are to be found. This passion for story has taken him across the globe, working for some of the industry's most respected entertainment brands and to locations, as varied as the top of Africa - Mt Kilimanjaro, the Amazon River basin and the urban jungle's of downtown Manhattan, Rio, Paris, London, Los Angeles, and Sydney, to name a few.