Kyle Floyd - Director

My name is Kyle Floyd. I am a 2017 graduate of Boston University's College of Communication, where I focused on documentary production. As a junior, I directed and produced a 40-minute documentary about the unique struggle facing victims of campus sexual assault. 

https://kafloyd.wixsite.com/aftermath.  

 

I am drawn to investigative projects and stories that examine institutional or systematic wrongdoing specifically because they aren't simple, and they can't be solved by removing one individual. Blockbusters featuring heroes and villains dominate modern entertainment in large part because they provide a good adrenaline rush, but also because they boil down conflict to good vs. evil, a tale as old as time itself that requires no critical thought or effort to understand human nature. This is not one of those films and this is not a simple issue. Like the issue of campus sexual assault, it's meant to examine personal motivations and traditional behaviors that stand in the way of reform. I want to contribute to growing critical viewers and ultimately critical citizens who scrutinize and then improve our society.

 

I began working on Kicking The Hornet's Nest in the summer of 2014, my sophomore year. This nearly-five year production has taken me around the United States, into the homes of those personally affected and into the offices of physicians with a front seat to this controversial procedure. At times the experience was painful, and at other times it was intimidating, but ultimately I was forced to throw myself into a subject matter of which I had no prior knowledge, and attempt to capture a range of strong opinions and an enormous amount of medical information in a way that could be communicated in a clear and balanced fashion.