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Kenneth J. Harvey
Two-time Canadian Screen Awards and Giller Prize nominee, Kenneth J. Harvey is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, photographer and international bestselling author. His films…
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Two-time Canadian Screen Awards and Giller Prize nominee, Kenneth J. Harvey is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, photographer and international bestselling author. His films and TV programs have aired on CBC, Documentary Channel and NTV, and have screened at over seventy film festivals around the world, including Raindance, Hotdocs, Festival du nouveau cinéma and TIFF Film Circuit. He grew up behind the camera and in the editing room with his father, Josiah, who trained at the National Film Board in Montreal. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy's Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His editorials have appeared on CBC Radio, in The Times (London) and in most major Canadian newspapers, including The Globe & Mail, National Post, and Ottawa Citizen.
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2026
Striking Out the Boys
Movie Producer
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2025
The Bear Inside a Whale
Movie Director
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2024
Calamus Variations
Movie Writer
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2024
The Governor of Georgetown
Movie Director
- 2023
- 2022
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2019
It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt
Movie Producer
- 2018
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2018
Aliment Roots
Movie Cinematography
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2017
The Drinking Life
Movie Writer
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2017
I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night
Movie Writer
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2015
It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her
Movie Director
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2013
The Slattery Street Crockers
TV show Director
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2013
Geek Assassin
Movie Director
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2012
Mile End
Movie Still Photographer
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2012
Our House
Movie Grip
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2012
Remains
Movie Director
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2012
Box
Movie Director
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2012
It's a Girl
Movie Director
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2011
I'm 14 and I Hate the World
Movie Director
