Kenneth J. Harvey
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 22, 1962
Biography
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.
Movies directed by Kenneth J. Harvey
- The Incredible Vanishing Sisters in the Death of the Garden of Eden 2022
- What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George 2023
- The Drinking Life 2017
- I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night 2017
- Aliment Roots 2018
- Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt 2018
- It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt 2019
- Geek Assassin 2013
- I'm 14 and I Hate the World 2011
- The Governor of Georgetown 2024
- The Bear Inside a Whale 2025
- Calamus Variations 2024
- It's a Girl 2012
- Box 2012
- Remains 2012
- It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her 2015