Blake Pfeil & Jeremiah Wenutu

Blake Pfeil is an Ambie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His latest body of work, All-American Ruins, has been the recipient of numerous awards for its genre-bending storytelling, including a UK Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nomination for Podcast of the Year (Regional). The project has seen multimedia installations worldwide, and in 2025, the podcast arm of the project, abandoned, reached no. 1 on Apple’s Podcasts Travel & Places charts. Outside All-American Ruins, Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado’s Lost Highways while also working his “day job” as the Operations & Digital Programs Manager at TMI Project. Blake is an alumni of SUNY Stony Brook’s Audio Podcast Fellowship, a Disctopia TruePlay Innovative Podcaster Award Finalist, and a 2025 Green Box Resident Artist.

Jeremiah Wenutu is a filmmaker, SAG-AFTRA Actor, and IATSE Local 52 Set Dresser based out of Kingston, NY. He has lived, and worked, in the Hudson Valley as an active filmmaker since 2011. His short film, TEST, took home the Audience Choice Award for the Tales From the Catskills Film Competition in 2023. His other film, How To Live with a Friend, If You Have To, was programmed with the nationally renowned Asbury Shorts Concert as well as with WMHT’s TVFilm program last year. For ten years, Jeremiah worked as a department head with the Woodstock Film Festival and has assisted the Hudson Valley Film Commission for over thirteen years and is still going strong. His intimate knowledge of filmmaking in the Hudson Valley, relationships with the local filmmakers that call it home, and background helps shape Cinema Kingston into a show that stands out from the rest with unique and current takes from the industry’s best!