Kenny Hotz

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Kenny Hotz

Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz (born May 3, 1967 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian screenwriter , actor , producer , director and photographer . He was also one of the two protagonists of the Canadian comedy series Kenny vs. Spenny and is the inventor and screenwriter of the Showcase / FX series Testees .

Life

Adolescence and early adulthood

At the age of seven, Kenny Hotz was sent to a film camp for the holidays , where he made his first film. In 1989 he started making documentaries . At this time he also had the idea of ​​developing a television show in which he and a friend would compete against each other in a series of competitions to measure themselves against each other. This concept later became the Kenny vs. Spenny evolved .

After graduating from Ryerson University in 1991, he became a film director and photographer and toured the world. In the same year, Hotz traveled to Iraq to report (as the only Canadian artist) on the Gulf War . Kenny Hotz has also been working as a photographer since 1986. For his works he photographed the Auschwitz concentration camp , Dachau , the “ Needle Park ” in Zurich (a meeting place for drug dealers and addicts) and the celebration of the millennium in New York's Times Square .

Career

After returning to Canada, Kenny Hotz worked with Spencer Rice on It Don't Cost Nothin 'to Say Good Morning , a short film about the life and death of the short homeless man "Shorty Gordy" in Toronto. In 1997 he worked as a screenwriter for the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . In the same year he and his friend Spencer Rice made the film Pitch , in which they documented their (unsuccessful) attempts to sell a script they had written. Hotz moved to Los Angeles to develop television shows. Ultimately, Kenny Hotz began working out his earlier idea about Kenny vs. Spenny .

The show Kenny vs. Spenny was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2004. Hotz produced a total of 87 episodes on 6 seasons for the Canadian television station Showcase . In 2002, Kenny Hotz made the documentary The Papal Chase , in which he tries to meet Pope John Paul II at World Youth Day in Toronto. Several members of the Rolling Stones made a cameo in the film . The film was the 2004 Festival Whistler film with the Borsos Award awarded and won in 2005 at the Canadian Filmmakers Festival the audience award in the category "Best Canadian Feature Film". It was also The Papal Chase at the Brooklyn International Film Festival awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

Kenny Hotz developed the concept for the 3D computer game "Versusville" for the comedy series Kenny vs. Spenny , which earned him a Canadian New Media Award nomination .

Since 2005 Hotz has been working as a consultant for the animation series South Park , for which he also wrote the episodes “The Greenhouse Effect”, “The Prophecy Device” and “Egg-fersucht”.

In 2008, Kenny Hotz shot his third feature film in collaboration with Films Transit International. He also developed a comedy series called "Testees," which is about two young men who earn their living as guinea pigs for a research company and try to cope with the side effects.

Kenny's special trademark in the Kenny vs. Spenny is the basic willingness to win the competition through unauthorized tricks, lies, cheating and other frauds and to humiliate Spenny as a consequence. So he gives z. B. in the episode “Whoever stops singing first loses” suggest singing along with the choir of his synagogue while in truth he is resting his voice. Furthermore, in several episodes - as in the latter example - reference is made to the fact that Hotz is Jewish.

In August 2008 he was involved in a dispute with the Canadian Human Rights Commission because he rented an airplane for the competition “Who can annoy most people” with a banner that read “Jesus Sucks” (in German roughly: Jesus is shit or Jesus is caustic ) flew over Toronto.

At the end of 2010 a Christmas special from Kenny vs. Spenny , which was also the last episode of the series. Hotz then worked on his new format Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will , which was first broadcast on July 22, 2011 on the Canadian broadcaster Action.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Hotz, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hotz, Kenneth Joel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor, photographer, screenwriter, producer and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario