Kyle S is an award winning director currently working in Los Angeles. Born in Boston, he moved to California to study English, Film and Race at Stanford University, and recently completed his MFA at USC ’s School of Cinematic Arts. After having spent his early years interning at HBO, he began shooting and editing projects for commercial clients in the bay area: Airbnb, Afrotech, Hypebeast, Levis, Red Bay Coffee, Rolling Stone, Pinterest, etc.
As a fellow of the 2022 Deutsche Bank Frieze...
Kyle S is an award winning director currently working in Los Angeles. Born in Boston, he moved to California to study English, Film and Race at Stanford University, and recently completed his MFA at USC ’s School of Cinematic Arts. After having spent his early years interning at HBO, he began shooting and editing projects for commercial clients in the bay area: Airbnb, Afrotech, Hypebeast, Levis, Red Bay Coffee, Rolling Stone, Pinterest, etc.
As a fellow of the 2022 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, he was highlighted online and in the Frieze Art Fair and magazine as one of ten distinguished minority film makers telling diverse stories in Los Angeles. The short film he made last year with this fellowship, Nomadic, was screened on a panel at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. It was also official selection at the Micheaux Film Festival and the Toronto Short Film Festival. For the 2022 fall season, he was the Director of Photography for The Hollywood Reporter’s roundtable series on actors, actresses, directors, and producers.
In 2024, he was one of eight international scholars sent to China to create a documentary, and one of eight diversity scholars selected to teach film to undergraduates at USC. As a teaching fellow he instructed a classroom of 30 undergraduates in writing, film, and humanities. He attended Milton Academy for high school, where he earned a near perfect SAT score.
