Biography

Benjamin Kuchera holds a BFA from the CalArts School of Film & Video. He also studied on a full scholarship at the Minneapolis College of Art in the PSEO program after achieving the highest score possible on the International Baccalaureate Fine Arts test. This equipped him to attend The School of the Art Institute of Chicago as an Illustrator before CalArts.

While at CalArts, Benjamin was the first student in the school's history to make a feature film on 16mm Kodak film stock. Because of this major portfolio piece, Benjamin advanced his studies for two years in the Master's program at the University of Cincinnati School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning on a full-ride scholarship.

Benjamin has worked in broadcast television, media management, New Media, script-to-screen and video editorial for 20 years in various business environments. He has been a copywriter and scriptwriter for a decade and worked with hundreds of clients across numerous agencies and companies. He crafted cinema and video programming as a producer, director, cinematographer, editor and writer across multiple series pieces. As a college teacher for two years, he trained hundreds of students in media, graphic design, drawing, media design as well as Art History and attained the highest student evaluation report scores in the University system's history.

Leading special projects, Benjamin created the worlds first open age comic magazine with 124 comic illustrators, ran a small sole proprietorship media company, and won numerous awards. He has been an Emmy judge and won Davey and Telly awards for documentary cinema work.
- IMDb mini biography by: M. Taylor

B.D.Kuchera is a devout Christ-follower.