Kenny Hotz
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Kenneth Joel Hotz May 3, 1967 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actor, director, screenwriter, and producer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Awards | Gemini Award and Canadian Comedy Award winner |
| Website | http://www.kennyhotz.com |
Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz is a Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian. Hotz is a South Park consultant and writer, creator/star of the Comedy Central television show Kenny vs. Spenny, creator and writer of the FX series Testees, and the creator/star of Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will. He has received awards for his television work—including Gemini Awards and Canadian Comedy Awards—and is a multiple-time film festival award-winner. He is also an award-winning Vice contributor and Gulf war photo-journalist.
After graduating high school from the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Hotz began as a documentary filmmaker and news photographer, creating photo essays on subjects including Auschwitz, Dachau, and the Gulf War. Additional photo essays of his have included Needle Park in Zurich, Switzerland, David Koresh, Mount Carmel, Romanian orphanages after Nicolae Ceauşescu and New Year's Eve 2000 in Times Square. Both national and provincial archives have purchased his work for their collections. In 1992 Hotz graduated from Ryerson University. Later he was a columnist for Vice, and won the publication's best fiction article of the year award in 2006.
Hotz was the writer, producer, director, cinematographer, and editor of the short film It Don't Cost Nothin' to Say Good Morning. The film is an 18-minute short co-directed by Spencer Rice, the man with whom he would co-star in their award-winning show Kenny vs. Spenny premiering in 2003. Rice and Hotz have been friends since childhood. In 1997 he co-wrote an episode of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation with Spencer Rice, titled Truce or Consequences. In 1999 Hotz moved with his long-time writing partner Rice to Los Angeles, where they worked on the development of the show Kenny vs. Spenny. In 1996, he created and starred (with Rice) in the documentary Pitch which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1997. The film had numerous cameos including Al Pacino, Samuel Z. Arkoff and Neil Simon.
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