Scissor Kick Films creates elevated, premium documentaries, scripted content, and everything in between. We have collaborated with notable clients, including Universal Pictures International, CNN, ESPN, Magnolia Pictures, Hulu, and Vice. We have screened our films at top-tier festivals, including TIFF, NYIFF, HIFF, DOCNYC, Outfest, Hot Docs, Sheffield DocFest, and the Melbourne International Film Festival, to name a few.
SPACE COWBOY
Premiered at TIFF 2024
Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, looks back on a lifetime of creating iconic moments in film and television as he attempts to pull off his most ambitious stunt yet, bringing a dreamlike vision to reality.
"Critic’s Pick." Indiewire
"Kind, caring, and plummeting to Earth like the rest of us, Joe Jennings is the hero that will remind you to save yourself.” Indiewire
Directors: Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt
Cinematography: Tony Johansson
Editing: Eric Bruggemann, J. Davis
Executive Producers:
Richard Valenzuela,Chance Wright, Lars Sylvest
Producers: Tyler Measom, Bryce Leavitt, Marah Strauch
Production Companies
Thank You Pictures LLC
REV Entertainment Inc
CLIP FROM SPACE COWBOY
"If you were to find entire dinette sets, automobiles and living rooms — with people sitting in them — tumbling Earthward from the clouds, you might think “Okay, so End Times really are a thing.” But it could also be the handiwork of “Space Cowboy” subject Joe Jennings, a “freefall cinematographer” who’s made a specialty of devising and filming such surreal stunts. Coming a decade after Marah Strauch’s first feature “Sunshine Superman,” about BASE jumping pioneer Carl Boenish (also an aerial cameraman), this new doc provides a thematically and stylistically overlapping companion piece." Variety Dennis Harvey
VICE VERSA CHYNA VICE
Vice Versa: Chyna The documentary Vice Versa: Chyna investigates the rise and tragic fall of the WWF superstar. “Wrestling her and wrestling guys was no different; she just hit a lot harder than guys,” Gunn says in the film. “She was the main thing. She was the ‘Stone Cold’ [Steve Austin]. It was Chyna, like that was a thing.”
HULU
Director, Producer, Writer: Marah Strauch
Producer, Editor: Eric Bruggemann
DP: Tony Johansson
Executive Producers: Mark Myers, Daisy Hamilton
Companies: Citizen Skull, Rock Skull, Scissor Kick Films, Vice
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN
Sunshine Superman - A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular – and dangerous – feats.
"GRADE A - EXHILARATING. A THRILL RIDE. One of the best docs of the year. Reminiscent of Man on Wire and Senna."
- John Anderson, Indiewire
UNIVERSAL PICTURES, CNN, MAGNOLIA
Executive Producers: Josh Braun, Dan Braun, Alex Gibney, Marah Strauch, Eric Bruggemann
Director, Producer, Writer: Marah Strauch
DP: Vasco Nunes, Nico Poulsson
Editor Eric Bruggemann, Marah Strauch
Companies: Submarine, Scissor Kick Films, Flimmer Films, Universal Pictures International, CNN, Magnolia Pictures