Josh Koury (born April 22, 1977) is an American filmmaker, best known for his documentary films ''

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'',
Journey to Planet X
', '' We Are Wizards'' and '' Standing by Yourself''. Koury was born in

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, and currently resides in Greenpoint,

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. His first film, ''Standing by Yourself'', opened theatrically in 2002. His second feature-length film, ''We Are Wizards'', had its premiere at

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in March 2008. Since then it has traveled to many film festivals around the world and had its theatrical release in November 2008. His feature film, ''Journey to Planet X'', had its World premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and was picked up as an

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Original Documentary to air in 2013. ''Voyeur'', starring

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and Gerald Foos, was globally premiered as a Netflix Original documentary film in December 2017. With

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and Cris Moris, Koury also co-founded the

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, where he served as programming director for five years. In addition, he worked for four years from 2004 at the

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as a programmer. He now works as faculty at the

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, Manhattan, New York.

References

External links

Brooklyn Underground Films

Voyeur - Netflix Media Center

Journey to Planet X site

We Are Wizards site
American film producers American film editors American documentary film directors American documentary film producers Filmmakers from New York (state) 1977 births Living people {{US-film-producer-stub