His father is a commercial airline pilot and his mother was a former saleswomen for Michigan Bell.
[1] In 2005 he began his involvement with movies and later went on to study digital media production in college.
[6][7] Many of Knudsen’s film projects feature a theme about hope surviving in adverse situations.
[8] Knudsen's Crystal Creek Media launched a lawsuit against Christian film company CMD Distribution for failing to fulfill its contractual financial obligations over the distribution of the movie Creed of Gold.
In early 2017 Crystal Creek was awarded a judgment against CMD by the Superior Court of New Hanover County in the state of North Carolina.