Kyrié Cox

Kyrié Cox is an educational, documentary and television producer. She is dedicated to each story she tells and enjoys knowing that she is helping spread knowledge and understanding with each project she works on. Whether your project is big or small, you need help from start to finish or just a few crew recommendations, Kyrié would love to hear your story and help you share it!

As a consultant I will meet with you and discuss your goals and upcoming projects and show you how video can be used to help achieve them. If you decide to use video I can help you with the entire process from deciding what videos you need to getting them on the best platform for distribution.

If you already have existing video, audio, photos, Powerpoint presentations etc. that you want turned into a useful and effective video then editing is the service for you. By compiling content you already have using professional editing software we can create videos for web, apps, DVDs, trade shows and more.

Click to see three oral history videos Kyrié edited for MoMA

Screen Shot from MoMA.org

Visit Lacrosse the Nations website

Description of Documentary – 31st Annual Telly Award winning short form documentary that chronicles the inaugural trip of a non-profit, Lacrosse the Nations, as they enter a community living within a municipal trash dump in Nicaragua. Multiple award winner with screenings across the US and a world premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. co-director, editor, and director of photography Gareth Paul Cox. co-produced and directed by Kyrie Cox. produced by Love Light and Melody, and Lacrosse the Nations. music with permission by Owl City, Port Blue, Swimming with Dolphins, and Braddigan. Winner of the Melbourne Independent Film Festivals Best Documentary sponsored by The Space Coast Film Commission.

Produced by Kyrié Cox

Shot and edited by Gareth Paul Cox

Kyrié traveled to very Upstate New York to co-produce this documentary with Rod Blackhurst. She went first with only the DP to cover a bluegrass festival the band was participating in and then again with the Director to film the interviews and remaining b-roll.

The Only Band In Town is a straightforward portrait of four casual bluegrass musicians in rural upstate New York. North Creek, NY has a population of 1,837 and only one band, the Don’t Quit Your Day Job Band, whose members include an old hippie, Melody, who moved to NYC during the Vietnam War with nothing but a bag of records and a guitar on her back, a small town old timer, Buckshot, who has spent his entire life in the same tiny community, Larry, a family man who seems to have forgotten about his family, and Stephanie, who is the band leader and transgendered father of three girls.

WINNER BEST SCORE | 2010 Melbourne Independent Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION 2010 Woods Hole Film Festival (woodsholefilmfestival.org/​2010/​)
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2010 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival (almovingimage.org/​sidewalk-fest.html)
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2010 Melbourne Independent Film Festival

director ROD BLACKHURST
director of photography GARETH PAUL COX
edited by ROD BLACKHURST & DAVID EBELTOFT
produced by ROD BLACKHURST & KYRIE COX
original music by JEREMY MCCOY, NATHAN STENGREVICS & LOWELL STRINGER

http://www.theonlybandintown.com

http://www.rodblackhurst.com

Gareth Paul Cox is a commercial television and film camera operator and cinematographer currently attending the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He has traveled the world working on commercial and documentary projects since graduating college in 2007. He has won multiple awards and recognition for is films which have screened at many festivals around the world, including the shorts corner at Cannes. In 2010, he and his wife won a Telly Award for their short documentary for a non-profit that is using the sport of Lacrosse as an outlet for aggression in teens in developing countries.

Growing up Gareth’s parents encouraged and allowed him to try a multitude of things, always affording him any opportunity they could. Through this freedom of expression he found himself. Gareth first began his interest in images both moving and still in Junior high. From there he was like a fish to water. He loved capturing anything he could, from family vacations, to his friends skateboarding.

By high school his parents saw that this was not just a passing phase and that he had a real aptitude and gift. Thus his collection of equipment began. A trend that has anything but stopped since. Once the owner of cameras both still and video he had the tools needed to become the artist he already was inside. He had countless rolls of film developed, of photos that he would now be embarrassed to show, artists are always their worst critic. “ I wanted to master the still image before I moved on to motion picture” says Cox of his motivation.

At Flagler College Gareth studied communications. This helped him hone his skills in both film and photography. While in college Gareth participated twice in the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival. Both movies he was involved in won awards. What Matters, a skateboarding documentary he directed, filmed and edited won Best Film in the surf/skate category. Through his college years he learned more about how to play with light and the different effects that can be achieved through different uses of both film and digital media.

In his first year after graduation Gareth shot three feature length documentaries, one of which he was the DP on, shot freelance and continued to assist and shoot photography. During the summer of 2008 he moved to New York city with his wife to further his career and has since continued to work as a freelance cinematographer.

CLIENTS:

• McCann Erickson – Expedia, NASDAQ, Verizon FiOS, U.S. ARMY, and Avis Car Rentals
• Rockstar Games, R*
• JetBlue Airlines
• Oxygen Media – Live Out Loud
• Exposure NYC
• The New York Surf Film Festival
• Microsoft – BING and KIN
• Spin the Verb Productions
• Western Carolina University – MPTP (Motion Picture & Television Production)
• Converse
• Rod Blackhurst – The Fray, The Only Band in Town, and 28N
• Jelly NYC – Pool Parties and Siren Music Festival
• Tigerlily Media
• Aquafluence Productions
• Fuel TV
• FOX
• MoMA
• The American Museum of Natural History
• TimeOut NY
• The Museum of Arts and Design NY – MAD
• NBC – “WWE” NowWhat Research
• Plowshares Media
• Columbia University – Oral histories Dept.
• PAVE Charter School – Redhook, BK
• BVK Milwaukee
• Spike TV/Black Water Creek Films
• In Search of Me Cafe – TV pilot/webisodes
• BARON WELLS Clothing
• The Dominican Republic
• Flagler College
• Duval County Schools
• Lux Digital Pictures
• Tail Fins and Chrome
• Surfline
• Smirnoff Vodka
• TWLOHA – TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS
• Love Light and Melody
• Lacrosse the Nations
• Robin Shepherd Group
• Words Without Borders
• ESPN-U
• The Sheffield School
• UnderGear
• ABC News
• William Heuberger Studios
• Certain Style
• Crunch gyms
• Todd Shelton
• Leibovitz studio
• Metropolis Ensemble

Kyrié worked with Plowshares Media to produce a series of videos about MoMA’s show AbEx NY. These videos highlighted works from the show from both the perspective of a curator and a conservator with the conservator demonstrating the painting techniques. To accompany these videos was also a series of short glossary term videos. All of these videos were compiled and made part of the MoMA iPad app for the exhibit. Kyrié edited all the curator videos and many of the others.

View the playlist from MoMA Multimedia with all of the AbExNy Videos (note that when the new page opens there will be a playlist to the right with 20 videos from this series)

MoMA.org AbEx Page – learn more about the show and get the app!