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Kyle Henry

School of Communication

Associate Professor of Film Production
Filmmaker, Film Producer, Film Editor

About

Areas of Focus

  • LGBTQ+ communities                                                                                                                               
  • Sexual orientation/expression
  • Grief processing
  • Independent film production
  • Documentary and fiction filmmaking and editing
  • Film producing
  • Film financing and distribution, including self-distribution

Work/Research

Themes and areas of focus for documentary and fiction works:

  • Eldercare
  • Interpersonal relationships
  • Midlife crisis
  • Global warming crisis, impact on narrative storytelling
  • Family archives and relationship to storytelling
  • Community and global conflict
  • Psychoanalysis

Career

Henry's feature narrative directing debut, "Room," premiered at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals and was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards. His feature documentary, "University Inc.," about the corporatization of higher education, and "American Cowboy," about a gay rodeo champ, received wide festival play after SXSW festival premieres, with the former touring colleges and universities throughout North America as part of The McCollege Tour, supported in part by filmmakers Michael Moore and Richard Linklater. Henry is also the editor of the Sundance/Tribeca/SXSW award-winning feature fiction narrative "Manito" and ten documentary features including: "Audience of One, Light from the East," the PBS/ITVS-funded "Troop 1500" and" Letters from the Other Side," and Showtime's "Trinidad."

Recently, he edited the Emmy Award winning "Where the Soldiers Come From" and the SXSW premiere "Before You Know It." His short film "Fourplay: Tampa" premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and played at Sundance. His "Fourplay" feature anthology premiered at Frameline, then toured internationally to over thirty engagements, receiving U.S. distribution via TLA Releasing. His partially devised fiction feature "Rogers Park" premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival, then toured theatrically throughout North America, garnering a New York Times Critics' Pick as well as a 100% Fresh rating on the review aggregation site "Rotten Tomatoes." His latest feature documentary, "Time Passages" is touring festivals and will be distributed in Spring 2025 by New Day Films. 

Henry also has created content and worked as a consultant for numerous corporate partners, non-profits and independent film projects, and enjoys mentoring young filmmakers and producers via programs like Full Spectrum Features Producers Lab and Chicago Int’l Film Festival’s Industry Exchange Lab. He is known for his self-producing and distribution efforts, on which he has extensively conducted workshops and written about in Filmmaker Magazine.