Walter Kortschak
Walter Kortschak is a producer, writer and co-founder of End Cue, a film development and production company in Culver City, CA. Walter is an engineer, venture capitalist, senior advisor at Summit Partners and a board trustee of Caltech. He has 40 years of experience as an investor from seed through growth stage. He started his career as a software engineer in the computer graphics industry before becoming a venture capitalist at the first seed venture firm (Crosspoint) in 1985. He was a managing partner at Summit Partners for over two decades where he served as a director of over 50 companies, including 24 public companies. In 2013, he helped launch SignalFire as the first data-driven seed fund using a proprietary AI/ML platform to source investments and track technical talent across the globe. In 2023, he transitioned exclusively to investing his own capital in pre-seed and seed stage companies in ML/AI infra, open-source, cybersecurity and vertical AI/SaaS. He was selected 6 times to the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. Walter received a B.S. from Oregon State University in 1981, an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1982, both in engineering, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a past director of the National Venture Capital Association. Walter and his wife, Marcia are active philanthropists having founded the Kortschak Scholars Program for Ph.D. students in computer science at the California Institute of Technology and the USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity. They also endowed the Division Chair in Film and Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer
- 9 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Walter Kortschak's films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 8
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 3 · Dark 4
Grounded 8 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 2 · Charged 3 · Intense 4
Steady 3 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 3
A split, not a type: Easy watch 3 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 6
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 5 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous6
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Walter Kortschak's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Walter Kortschak's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
12 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page.
The History of Sound(2025)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
To the Moon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Art of Self-Defense(2019)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
The Clovehitch Killer(2018)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Progress Bar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Sunspring (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Cop Car(2015)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Mediterranea(2015)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
The Benefactor(2015)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
Print the Legend(2014)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 8 titles from 2015 to 2025.
Biggest box office
The History of Sound (2025)
Highest rated
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
Most popular right now
The History of Sound (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Walter Kortschak's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 73rd percentile, the median of all 9; across their 9 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 73rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 9 titles divides audiences: 6 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser6
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Walter Kortschak's work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity and profanity run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Walter Kortschak work with?
People who share at least 2 of Walter Kortschak's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Andrew Kortschak shares the most, 9.
Writers
- Christopher FordShared titles: The Clovehitch Killer (2018), Cop Car (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Christopher Ford
Editors
- Andrew HasseShared titles: The Clovehitch Killer (2018), Cop Car (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Andrew Hasse
- Megan BrooksShared titles: The Clovehitch Killer (2018), Cop Car (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Megan Brooks
Producers
- Andrew KortschakShared titles: The History of Sound (2025), Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019), The Art of Self-Defense (2019), The Clovehitch Killer (2018), Cop Car (2015), Mediterranea (2015), The Benefactor (2015), Print the Legend (2014), Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)See all 9 shared titles with Andrew Kortschak
- Lisa CiuffettiShared titles: The History of Sound (2025), Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019), The Art of Self-Defense (2019), The Clovehitch Killer (2018)See all 4 shared titles with Lisa Ciuffetti
- Cody RyderShared titles: The Art of Self-Defense (2019), The Clovehitch Killer (2018), Cop Car (2015)See all 3 shared titles with Cody Ryder
- Munika LayShared titles: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019), The Art of Self-Defense (2019), The Clovehitch Killer (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Munika Lay
