Juri Koll

Juri Koll has worked in the business since the 1980's, producing and directing features, docs, and music videos. He has worked with Academy Award winning and nominated actors as well as up and coming stars and enjoys the demands of successful filmmaking and telling great stories. After graduating from California Institute of the Arts with majors in Fine Art and Film, Mr. Koll produced the first Art/World documentaries from 1990 - 1995. He worked with major curators in their museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. His subjects included world famous and infamous artists and art world figures from the Renaissance period to the present. His documentaries on artists and other art world figures are available in university libraries across the U.S. Recently, Juri's first documentary, In The Steel: A Portrait of Mark di Suvero, (1991), was accepted into the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. His films have screened all over the world, in over 70 festivals, including Cannes, the Cork International Film Festival, the Australian International Film Festival, and won many awards.