Brian Kruger
Executive Producer- Stunt3 Multimedia
Brian Kruger grew up in Ypsilanti taught at Ypsilanti High School in the 1980’s. He was part of the Ypsilanti-based comedy group, Stunt Johnson Theater, and they headlined around the country working with legendary comics like the Smothers Brothers and Rich Little.
He moved to Grosse Pointe in 1998 and founded the software company, Woodwing USA. Woodwing developed a system for magazine publishers to create virtual publications in the cloud so writers and page designers could work collaboratively all over the world.
In 2009 he sold the company and started the film company, Stunt3 Multimedia to make historical documentaries. Since then, he as produced 9 feature-length documentary films, two of which have garnered Emmy nominations:
His first film, “The Girl in Centerfield” which he made with fellow Ypsilantian, writer Buddy Moorehouse, chronicled Ypsilanti’s Carolyn King, who as a 12-year-old in 1973, fought for the right for girls to play Little League.
In 2011, Kruger and Moorehouse wrote “Black and Blue- The story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech Football Game” told the story about Georgia Tech demanding that Michigan bench it’s only African American player, before it would take the field against the Wolverines in 1934.
Last year, Kruger screened his film, “Where the Brave Dare to Tread- The Bob Arvin Story” about Ypsilanti’s own Captain C. Robert Arvin, West Point First Captain in 1965 who was killed in Vietnam in 1967.
He is currently working on “The Torch Murders” the story of a shocking crime here in Ypsilanti in 1931, that had national reverberations. That film is set to release in March and he is here to talk about that today.