Bruce Skinner
Owner, Skinner & Company

Bruce Skinner founded an international film and video production company in Louisville in 1994 following a successful fifteen year career as a writer-producer and director in the advertising agency business, working for both Young & Rubicam and Doe-Anderson advertising agencies. In addition to television production, Skinner also produced radio and original music for clients around the world.

Skinner has produced and directed commercial and corporate work for Chevrolet, Churchill Downs, Brown-Forman Distillers, United Distillers, Hillerich & Bradsby, Ashland Oil, Norton Healthcare and the Leatherman Spine Center, Samaritan and Floyd Memorial Hospitals, Kentucky Tourism, KFC, and Tabor Hill Wineries.

For the Discovery Channel in 2002, Bruce shot a segment in Louisville about an experimental open-heart surgical technique perfected by Dr. Alan Lansing for a Discovery Channel program about new frontiers in heart surgery.

In the educational and non-profit world, Skinner has produced and directed projects for the Kentucky Derby Museum, The Muhammad Ali Center, The Kentucky Horse Park, The United Religions Initiative, The Morton Center, Summit Academy, and the United States Equestrian Foundation.

Bruce graduated in 1975 "with honors" from Pomona College in Claremont, California, having written and produced a ten minute film with a grant from the Frank Capra Fund.

Working closely with producing partner Eleanor Miller, Skinner completed the documentary, "Thunder and Reins," which is about what it is like for jockeys to win the Kentucky Derby. Two other documentaries are currently in post production; "May the Horse Be With You," about the spiritual relationships between people and horses; and "Kentucky Elk’s Club," an educational film partially funded by Kentucky Educational Television about the relocation of the species of elk from the Rocky Mountains to the reclaimed coal fields of East Kentucky.