Kirk Lohse

Kirk Lohse has been writing, directing and editing since he got his hands on his dad’s Bell & Howell 8mm in 1970. One time, he made a Godzilla movie and set the backyard on fire!

But we digress…

His passion for making movies was rekindled with the digital video (DV) revolution of the mid 90s. After taking a number of online and classroom-based courses in DV production, Kirk was fortunate enough to learn professional DVD mastering while working on a DVD authoring project for the Schoenberg Foundation in Los Angeles.

Lohse spent two years teaching undergraduate video production classes at Texarkana College, where he also served as Program Director for TCTV, the College’s cable access channel from 1999-2008.

In 2001, as a member of CableONE’s TEACH (Texarkana Educational Access CHannel) committee, Kirk was instrumental in establishing fest•EYE•ful, a very successful video and film festival that ran under the auspices of the Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, until 2006.

Kirk received the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR) Paragon Award in 1999, and the NCMPR Medallion Award in 2003-both for Excellence in Video Production.

Since that time, Lohse has produced dozens of television commercials and programs, promotional videos for chambers of commerce, instructional videos for private industry, as well as shot live theatre and music performances. We’ve won recognition for short film work from the Dallas Video Festival and the Aurora Picture Show, a Houston TX based independent film group, and Kirk Lohse was honored as a guest blogger and t-shirt designer for the Dallas Video Festival’s 25th Anniversary in 2012.

Lohse is currently in production on his first feature length film - familiar strangers, based upon the STUDIO ONE Teleplay, “The Death & Life of Larry Benson”, by Reginald Rose.

Kirk has also written the screenplay for a feature length film on the political career of Colonel David Crockett, for which Lohse wrote the screenplay. This project, with the working title Not Yours To Give, is currently seeking funding, and will begin its life as a “page to stage” project in 2014, as a Reader's Theatre production of the Texas A&M-Texarkana Drama Department.