Kenny Hotz

Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz is a Canadian writer, director, actor, producer, photographer, creator/co-star of the Canadian television show Kenny vs. Spenny and creator/co-writer of the Showcase/FX series Testees. Hotz was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1973. When Kenny was three, the top of his right index finger was removed in a bicycle accident. At the age of six years old, Kenny was sent to a film camp where he made his first film. Hotz beg... more

Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz is a Canadian writer, director, actor, producer, photographer, creator/co-star of the Canadian television show Kenny vs. Spenny and creator/co-writer of the Showcase/FX series Testees. Hotz was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1973. When Kenny was three, the top of his right index finger was removed in a bicycle accident. At the age of six years old, Kenny was sent to a film camp where he made his first film. Hotz began making documentaries in 1989, and had the idea to develop a television show in which he and a friend competed in a series of challenges to prove who was the best, which eventually evolved into Kenny vs. Spenny. Upon graduating from Ryerson University's media arts program, Hotz became an accomplished filmmaker and photographer, and in 1991, he traveled around the world. In that year he went to cover the Gulf War as the only registered Canadian artist to do so. Hotz had been working as a photographer since 1986, photographing numerous... less