Kurt Sayenga

Kurt Sayenga is a writer, director, and producer living in the Los Angeles area. He was originally active in the Washington, D.C. punk scene, and was a key player in the " [Meese Is A Pig] " poster campaign in the waning years of the Reagan era. He created, edited, and wrote most of Greed Magazine in the late 1980s (notable for its first publication of Evan Dorkin's Milk and Cheese in its final issue), and he designed albums for the Dischord Records label, most notably Fugazi's first six packages: the eps "Fugazi" and "Margin Walker," the CD "13 Songs" (which compiled the two eps), the CD/LPs "Repeater" and "Steady Diet of Nothing," and the 7" "Three Songs.". He worked briefly for the Discovery Channel and won an Emmy for the design of the opening credits on a series about tanks, "Fields of Armor." During his time with the company Arcwelder Films (which he founded with Martha Adams), he wrote, directed and produced many documentaries, including Explosive Situations, High Speed Impacts, Inside the Kill Box (made on the tenth anniversary of the first Gulf War and featuring interviews with important figures such as George H. W. Bush and then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney), and the engineering series Skyscrapers: Going Up, Bridges: Reaching Out, and Tunnels: Digging In.

He was married a month after the September 11th, 2001 attacks, and has one child. He remains active in writing, producing, and directing; he recently created short promotional films for the third installment of the X-Men franchise, , and the film Lions for Lambs with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise. The promotional materials for the second film included interviews with such luminaries as Ralph Nader, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Amartya Sen, and General Sir Michael David Jackson, former head of the British Army. Kurt Sayenga is currently working with Bill Nye, the Science Guy, on "Stuff Happens," for the Discovery Network's Planet Green.

External links

* http://books.google.com/books?id=vkUbP1G1hmkC&pg=PA719&lpg=PA719&dq=meese+is+a+pig&source=web&ots=Z9D4TAsP_0&sig=El9GFWK_djhELTRwe0wzrWfcvhk&hl=en
* http://books.google.com/books?id=CU1jKq0TlvQC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=dischord+sayenga&source=web&ots=1isZIQuM5E&sig=RuG1T3kCClCJ3_0a7ZuSBnI1Dj8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
* Arcwelder Films http://www.imdb.com/company/co0049855/
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* http://kurtsayenga.com/