Kevin McKiernan

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Kevin McKiernan is an American foreign correspondent, photographer and documentary filmmaker. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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McKiernan's work, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, [5] has taken him to some of the world's most troubled regions, from Nicaragua to Iraq and Syria, [6] from West Africa to Afghanistan. [7] [8] He has been widely published in national and international media. [8] [9] [10] An expert on the Kurds, [11] [12] St. Martin's Press released his book, THE KURDS: A People in Search of Their Homeland. McKiernan wrote and directed the PBS documentary Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, which The New York Times called "searing." [13] It won the Human Rights Prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. [14] In addition to Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, McKiernan co-produced the documentary The Spirit of Crazy Horse for PBS Frontline. [8] In 2011, he completed Bringing King to China , a documentary that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. [15] [16] [17] [18] Ethnic Cleansing: The Story of the Rohingya, [19] a short film, premiered at the Ojai Film Festival in November 2014. [20] His newest documentary film, From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey, was released on October 8, 2019. [19] A review in The New Republic called it "a humane but unflinching look at one of the most famous Indigenous resistance groups in modern history." [21] The film features previously unreleased footage from Wounded Knee that McKiernan "buried before his arrest by the FBI at the siege’s conclusion." [22] Cinematographer Haskell Wexler filmed much of the contemporary footage [22]

Education and personal life

McKiernan holds a J.D. from Northeastern University Law School and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of St. Thomas. He was also awarded an Honorary M.S. from the Brooks Institute of Photography, and received a Master's Certificate from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. He is an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. [23] McKiernan is a son of the late Eoin McKiernan, one of the early major scholars of the field of Irish Studies. [24] [25] [26]

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  2. ↑ "Good Kurds, Bad Kurds â€" MacArthur Foundation". Macfound.org. 2000-01-24. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
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