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.
Known for
Directing17
movieThe Bear Inside a Whale
2025
Director
movieAliment Roots
2018
Director
movieGeek Assassin
2013
Director
Remains
2012
Director
It's a Girl
2012
Director
Box
2012
Director
Production15
movieStriking Out the Boys
2026
Producer
tvThe Slattery Street Crockers
2013
Producer, Casting
movieGeek Assassin
2013
Producer
It's a Girl
2012
Producer
Box
2012
Producer
Crew13
Calamus Variations
2024
Cinematography
movieWhat the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George
2023
Cinematography
movieAliment Roots
2018
Cinematography
movieI Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night
2017
Cinematography
The Drinking Life
2017
Cinematography
Remains
2012
Script, Cinematography
It's a Girl
2012
Cinematography
Box
2012
Cinematography
Writing13
Editing10
movieWhat the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George
2023
Editor, Online Editor, Colorist
movieThe Incredible Vanishing Sisters in the Death of the Garden of Eden
2022
Online Editor, Colorist
movieAliment Roots
2018
Editor
Remains
2012
Editor
Box
2012
Editor
Camera3
tvThe Slattery Street Crockers
2013
Additional Camera
Mile End
2012
Still Photographer
Creator1
Sound1
Visual Effects1
It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her
2015
Digital Effects Producer