KURT SAYENGA is a writer/director/producer based in Los Angeles, California. He has served as the principle creative on many high-end documentary productions. He is the showrunner of the film survey series Horror's Greatest, which began streaming on Shudder and AMC+ August 27, 2024. Previously he was the showrunner of the National Geographic/Disney+ special Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron, the Shudder miniseries The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time, all three seasons of AMC-TV's Eli Roth's History of Horror, two seasons of the sprawling National Geographic science series Breakthrough, and the sprawling National Geographic limited series Origins. Sayenga also wrote and directed 15 episodes of Discovery Science Channel's acclaimed series Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.

In the early 2000s Sayenga was the co-owner of Arcwelder Films, Ltd,. under whose banner he made several films and series for National Geographic, Discovery, Canal Plus, and Granada UK, most notably the specials Inside the Kill Box: Fighting the Gulf War and Spies Above, and the miniseries Fields of Armor and Buildings, Bridges, and Tunnels. As a freelancer he has directed short films for Disney, 21st Century Fox Feature Films, Toshiba, and Dreamworks.

Before getting into television, Sayenga worked as a journalist on Capitol Hill while covertly editing and publishing GREED, a music and arts publication covering the punk underground. He also designed record covers for several DC bands, including the first five releases by Fugazi. (His favorite design is for the vinyl release of "Repeater.")

Sayenga is a member of the Directors Guild of America and a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts, where he won a Hopwood Award in Drama and a Roy M. Cowden Fellowship.

Sayenga has won many accolades for his documentary work, including five Emmy nominations (and one win) and three World Science Foundation medals (bronze, silver, and gold). In 2020, Eli Roth's History of Horror received a Realscreen Award for Best Arts and Cultural Programming. In 2023, Sayenga was awarded Fangoria's Chainsaw Award for Best Nonfiction Series (The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time).

Kurt Sayenga is generally considered the best-dressed man in documentary filmmaking.