Kahlil Hudson

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KAHLIL HUDSON is an Emmy® Award-winning film and commercial director. An Alaska Native (Tlingit) from Juneau, AK, his most recent documentary, WILDLAND, won Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Editing” and “Outstanding Cinematography” as the season premiere broadcast of acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens. Kahlil’s debut feature, LOW AND CLEAR won the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival and was named Paste Magazine’s “100 Best Documentaries of All Time.” His work has screened and won awards at film festivals including South by Southwest, Hot Docs, IDFA, Tribeca, Camden and True/False and he received the Discovery Impact Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Kahlil is a co-founder of the directing collective FINBACK.  His client list includes Ram Trucks, Patagonia, Filson, Yeti, Porsche, REI, HBO, Chevrolet and Nike. He holds an MFA in film directing from UCLA and is a professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.