
Kenneth J. Harvey
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2025The Bear Inside a Whale
Director
2023What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George
Director & Writer
2022The Incredible Vanishing Sisters in the Death of the Garden of Eden
Director & Writer
2019It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt
Director
2018Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt
Director
2018Aliment Roots
Director
2017I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night
Director & Writer
2013Geek Assassin
Director & Writer
2011I'm 14 and I Hate the World
Director & Writer