Justin Hunt

In 2007, Justin Hunt released his first feature-length film, American Meth, now a cult-classic documentary dealing with the epidemic of meth in our country. The film is narrated by Val Kilmer and won numerous film festivals around the country, including the Cinema City International Film Festival at Universal Studios. In 2008, the movie was released on DVD and was one of the most rented documentaries of the year. In 2009, it hit cable networks in the U.S. and Canada. And, in 2010, American Meth was picked up by Cox, Comcast and Time Warner Cable networks, where it was exposed to over 98 million households via video on demand. In October of 2011, American Meth peaked at #11 on iTunes 'Top Documentaries' list and currently listed as the third most popular documentary of all time on hulu.com.

In the fall of 2008, Justin was sent to Washington D.C. by then New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson as part of a 10 person team to attend a national meth conference. In June of 2011, Hunt was presented with the 'National Media Award' by The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) and The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), for his work on American Meth.

He second film, Absent, a documentary about the impact of disengaged fathers, further expanded Justin's appeal to audiences around the world. It includes interviews with people ranging from prostitutes and inner city high school kids to world champion boxer Johnny Tapia, Christian author John Eldredge and James Hetfield, front man for the heavy metal band Metallica. Hunt's interview with Hetfield, one of the most recognizable figures in rock and roll history, has been called the 'greatest Hetfield interview ever captured on film, and the new bar for every METALLICA interview from here on out'. The movie has been accepted to 17 festivals in six countries, including South Africa, Egypt, Spain, Germany and England, and the 26th Boston Film Festival, which takes only 40 feature films out of over 1200 submissions. Hunt and Hetfield were featured on the national FOX morning program 'Fox and Friends' in March, 2011. The film has won 'Best Documentary' at the Marbella Int'l Film Festival in Spain, 'Best Documentary' at the Thanet Int'l Film Festival in England, and was one of three finalists for 'Best Documentary' at the Radar Hamburg Film Festival in Germany. It was awarded 'Best Documentary' at both the TriMedia Film Festival in Ft. Collins, Colorado and the Southern Winds Film Festival in Shawnee, Oklahoma. In July of 2012, Absent was the opening night film of the Northwest Ohio Film Festival, where Justin received their inaugural 'Director's Choice Award.'

On December 31, 2011, Justin was named by the Arizona Republic as one of the Ten People Who Most Impacted Their Community (Gilbert, AZ), which has a population of over 250,000.

In June of 2013, Absent went on a multi-city screening tour of Australia, with Justin attending 19 screenings in a 16 day period. On June 26th, 2013, Justin was asked to speak at the Australian Parliament in regards to the film and the issue of fatherlessness around the globe. With an average audience size of over 300 during the tour, one parliamentarian called Absent and the tour "..the most significant movement towards fatherhood in Australian history." The film now has distribution in over 60 countries and is available in four languages (English, Spanish, French & Russian), with more languages planned in the near future.

In September of 2013, his third feature-length documentary, The Speed of Orange, was released on DVD. A more personal film, it covers a nearly 70 year span of his horse-racing family, the Hall of Fame GHL racing stable, a staple in horse racing from the 1960s through the early 1980s. The film has won every festival it's been in, including the 'Rising Spirit Award' for Most Inspirational film at the Jerome Film Festival. The film also garnered the 'Choice City Award' for Best Feature Documentary at the TriMedia Film Festival, making Justin the only three-time winner at that festival ('07, '10, '13) and the 'Best Documentary' Award at the Marbella International Film Festival in Spain, making him the only two-time winner n the history of that festival ('10, '13). The Speed of Orange is set for a video on demand release in the U.S. in May of 2014.

Justin, and his beautiful wife Dani, are raising their three children, a 13 year old son, a 11 year old daughter and a seven year old son, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.