Kim Nyhous

Kimberly Nyhous is an Emmy award winning documentary film, television, and digital production executive with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She was most recently the Head of Business Affairs, Production Management and Divisional Operations at Vulcan Productions, where she managed a wide range of critically acclaimed, impact-based documentary feature films and TV series. She served as Executive in Charge of the feature documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), which was nominated for an Oscar in 2022. She also managed the 2022 Oscar nominated documentary short Lead Me Home (Netflix) for Vulcan Productions. Other Oscar nominated films include the documentary short film Hunger Ward in 2020 (MTV Docs), as well as the Oscar and Emmy nominated documentary short Body Team 12 in 2016. Other notable projects include The Reason I Jump (Sundance World Cinema Audience Award Winner, Netflix), Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (American Masters PBS), The Cold Blue (HBO), The Ivory Game (short listed for Oscar, Netflix), Ocean Warriors & Chasing the Thunder (Discovery), and We The Economy and We The Voters (digital short film series). She has worked with blue chip filmmakers and production companies across the world, and her programs have been featured on all major platforms, across genre and format. Prior to working at Vulcan, Nyhous worked as a producer on a variety of reality-based programs at Screaming Flea Productions, including the Emmy nominated series Hoarders and Sell This House. She began her career at KPBS Television and FM Radio, the PBS and NPR affiliate in San Diego. She worked for both NPR and PBS, where she won her first Emmy in 2008.