Carl Kriss
Director
Carl Kriss was born and raised in Chicago. Upon graduation from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he directed an award winning feature documentary on street musicians in New York called, “Give and Take.” He advanced his film career by attending the American Film Institute where he graduated in 2015. He later became a film editor on documentaries and TV shows that aired on the History Channel, National Geographic and Amazon. In 2017, he moved back to Ohio to make documentaries about people in the industrial Midwest. He worked two years as a photojournalist for an NBC affiliate in Cleveland and now uses his experience in visual storytelling to produce documentaries and social media videos for companies and nonprofits.