Cy Kuckenbaker received his MFA in film direction from CalArts in 2006, was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lithuania from 2000-2002. He is the director of fiction and documentary films that have screened at domestic and international film festivals including MoMA NY, Centre Pompidou Paris, The LAFF, The Vancouver IFF, and the Viennale. His experimental videos have been shared broadly online by platforms such as USA Today, The Atlantic magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, Designboom, and Journal Du Design. In 2013, he received the San Diego Foundation’s Creative Catalyst Grant to work in partnership with the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. His work was featured in a PhotoViz, an artbook published by Gestalten and edited by Nicholas Felton that featured cutting-edge work in photo visualization in 2016. In 2017, he received the San Diego Art Prize. Cy has been a full-time faculty member at San Diego City College since 2014, teaching filmmaking.