Kurt Voss (born Kurt Christopher Peter Wössner; September 15, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician/songwriter. Voss has written and directed a dozen feature films, including Will Smith's debut "Where The Day Takes You", the Sundance sleeper "Horseplayer", actress Jaime Pressly's debut feature "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction" and numerous rock and roll related films including "Down and Out with the Dolls" and "Ghost on The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club."Voss has frequently collaborated with fellow UCLA alumnus Allison Anders. Working together over twenty-five years, the duo created an acclaimed trilogy of rock films: Border Radio (1987), a portrait of the L.A. punk scene featuring such stalwarts as John Doe ("X") and Dave Alvin ("The Blasters") and published by the prestigious Criterion Collection; the Sundance-premiered "Sugar Town" (1999), featuring John Taylor ("Duran Duran") and Rosanna Arquette; and "Strutter" (2012), a Kickstarter-financed indie featuring fresh faces, with luminous black and white cinematography by Voss himself.Anders and Voss also co-wrote "Things Behind The Sun" (2001), which was awarded a Peabody Award in 2002.In addition to his film work, Voss is a founding member of the West Coast punk band The Hindi Guns, an outfit which produced three highly regarded albums. The First, "The Hindi Guns" (2004, French Fan Club Records) inspired Rolling Stone Magazine's Senior Editor David Fricke to write, "I've already found one of my favorite new bands of the year: a rough, bewitching four-piece from Portland" and "'I Don't Want To Drink Mercury" is your best ticket into these ten tracks: a bluesy crawl set in dub-like darkness, like early Hole produced by Lee Perry." Early vinyl pressings of the album found their way into the hands of the late and legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ, John Peel, who put no less than three of the album tracks into rotation on his BBC program.The album was supported by a 30 city U.S. tour, the West Coast portion of which was filmed for a short film which can be found on Youtube. The Hindi Guns second album, the cheekily named "Rarities" (2009), was a collection of EP material, B-sides and studio outtakes. The album was reviewed in Record Collector by British punk critic Kris Needs, who gave the record four stars, noting, "Anyone who dedicates a song to 'Instant Karma and The Peel Sessions' must have their heart in the right place. The late DJ was a fan and it's not hard to see why... After the departure of original singer Dee Dee Cheriel, the founding members of Hindi Guns made a final farewell album, ironically entitled "Do Or Die" (French Fan Club Records, 2009). The CD featured a photo of a sword-wielding Yukio Mishima; the back cover of the record depicted a photo of the author's severed head. The album received extensive college radio play, and an honorable mention in the annual roundup of "Year's Best" by ex-T
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