Sam Elliott, John Kuri with daughter Janiene on the set of "Conagher"

"Conagher" billboard on the Sunset Strip, Hollywood

Motion Pictures for Television:

One More Mountain
Conagher
Skyward
Scared Straight: Another Story
The Plutonium Incident
Young Love, First Love
Marriage is Alive and Well
Through the Magic Pyramid
The Red Pony
Michael O'Hara IV
Dracula's Castle
Legend in Granite

Television Series:

The Big T: Testosterone (Pilot)
Stay Tuned (3 episodes)
Ohara (series creator)
Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice (pilot)
Little Shots (pilot)
Skyward Christmas (pilot)
Airwolf ("Eagles" Episode)
The Girl from 7th Avenue (pilot)
Wonderful World of Disney (2 seasons)

Motion Pictures:

Captive Hearts
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Leadbelly
Report to the Commissioner
Hawaiian Cowboy
Superdad
Mad Mad Movie Makers
 

Concerts/ Multi-Camera:

Mongolia: Concert (North American Premiere, The Lincoln Center)
Sudan Music and Dance Festival (NYC Central Park Summer Concerts)
Levitt Pavilion Summer Concert Series (three 2-hour concerts)
Vegas! Vegas! Vegas! (One-Hour TV Special)

Documentaries and Motion Picture Shorts:

IMPACT!
HoopDreamTeam
Icastica: (Figurative)
Global Women Project: First Portrayal
Language of the Night
Leftover Salmon: A Rocky Mountain High
Talk to Me
Sounds of Change (four titles for the Grammy Foundation) including:
Civil Rights Movement
 Birth of Rock & Roll
Protest Movement
Grammy's in School

Interactive C/D ROM Video Gaming:

Dreggs (a role playing game - 22 hours of video)

Awards:

The Big T:Testosterone — Director's Circle Festival of Shorts — "Official Selection"
Takin' It Back — Oaxaca International Film Festival Global Script Challenge — "Official Selection"
Emmy® nomination - The Red Pony
Cowboy Hall of Fame/ Western Heritage Award - Conagher
Christopher Award - One More Mountain
Golden Halo Award - Skyward

Appearances on Video as Himself:

50th Anniversary Making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Disney)
The Making of The Apple Dumpling Gang (Disney)
Pride Passion and Power (CBS/ ESPN)
One Hundred Greatest Family Movies of All Time (Channel 4, Granada TV)

John Kuri has production experience in many locals and in extreme conditions, from 40 below zero in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec or Yamagata, Prefecture in Northern Japan during production of Captive Hearts, to multiple days in excess of 110 degrees in Dallas during production of Skyward, or the very remote locations in eastern Colorado used for the production of Conagher. He has much experience on the sound stages of Hollywood — on numerous productions, as well as urban, city streets and location production in cities from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada, and Orlando, FL to San Francisco, to New York and internationally from Japan to Ireland, Colombia to Abu Dhabi.