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Two basketball legends, NBA star Jerome Kersey and UCLA All-American Anita Ortega participate in a Hollywood casting call with local teens trying out for a part in a movie about teens like them.

The movie in development is based on John Kuri's novel Takin' It Back.  The book is cover endorsed by NBA great Shaquille O'Neal.

Adapted from John Kuri's published story the movie was produced for Disney by John. Starring Meredith Baxter and Chris Cooper.

One More Mountain was produced in Calgary, the Canadian Rockies, and the northern Great Plains.  Oxen were imported from Nova Scotia in the effort for authenticity in this tale of the Donner Party. John also directed 2nd unit.

John was the 1994 recipient of the Christopher Award "affirming the highest values of the human spirit".

In this short directed and edited by John Kuri, Oceanographer, National Geographic Explorer in Residence, Former Chief  Scientist for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, and TIME  Magazine's first "Hero of the Planet" comments on the natural system of nature and the oceans, speaks about the critical nature of the oceans and points out how much of the world is blue, saying, 

"We should think of the planet as blue since so much of it is water. Therefore, we must protect the oceans. That is where life begins."

Georgetown University Professor of International Government, Emeritus, Roy Godson, Ph.D. introduces the project and presents coverage of some of the conferences held in the Middle East and Persian Gulf by the NSIC and participating governments.  

Supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of State, the report from Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, confirms the positive results of this NSIC project. It is available at:

https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/rls/rm/2004/37196.htm.

John Kuri was a Senior Fellow with the NSIC, 2006 through 2012. He was a speaker at several conferences in the MENA region, Colombia and Mexico.  John directed and edited this documentary short, as well he shot the Abu Dhabi footage while participating in the conference.

:30 spot directed and edited by John Kuri for the LA Sheriff's Dept. featuring Ron Howard.

John Kuri designed the sets with Robert Clatworthy for this gem from 1975 directed by Milton Katselas.
Report to the Commissioner,  a textured police procedural examining changing social mores and the generalized internal corruptions within the NYPD, resulting in tragic circumstances thanks to the sincere ignorance of its protagonist played by Michael Moriarty. Also starring Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, 

Héctor Elizondo, Tony King, and the movie introduced Richard Gere.

John spent many days and long nights in NYC experiencing the underground club life, police precincts, the Tombs, Bellevue's Prison Psychiatric Ward, then recreating the look and feel of the 70's Manhattan at Warner Bros. Studio and downtown LA.