Michael Kennedy (director)

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Michael Kennedy
Born
Kensington, Prince Edward Island
Occupation(s) Director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer,
Website https://www.michaelkennedydirector.com/bio

Michael Kennedy is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer. [1]

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Kennedy was born in Kensington, Prince Edward Island. [2] [3] [4] Kennedy lives in Mississauga with his wife. [4]

Kennedy was a professor of Film and Television at York University, Toronto (1980-83), Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi (1983-84), and Sheridan College, Toronto (2004-2021). [5] [6] [2]

In 2023,Toronto Metropolitation University inducted Kennedy as a Visionary to their Image Arts Wall of Fame. [7]

Career

Kennedy has directed more than 20 feature-length films/TV movies and over 230 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the entire first season of the sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, that used humour to attack racism against Muslims in the post-911 world. [4] [8]

He has directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of Delmer and Marta, My Life and a Movie, North/South , The Good Germany, Mental Block , Listen Missy, Screech Owls, P.R. , Taking the Falls , and Jets. He was also one of the directors of the comedy series The Kids in the Hall , and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada . [5]

Kennedy has directed feature films in various countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the US, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Man Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and many others in his native Canada.

As well as directing, Kennedy also wrote the screenplays for films he directed, including Caribe,One Man Out, and The Swordsman. He has also occasionally participated in films as an actor . [9]

In 2016 he directed #Roxy , a film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac [10] released in 2018. In 2023, he directed the romantic comedy feature How to Fall in Love By the Holidays, starring Teri Hactcher. [11] [12]

Filmography

Director

Writer

Actor

Cinematographer

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

Collective awards

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  2. 1 2 Spencer, Brittany (14 November 2017). "P.E.I. student caught in limbo of Ontario colleges strike".
  3. ↑ "Michael Kennedy". Directors.ca. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 Star, Kathryn Kates Special to the (29 September 2007). "Walked in, knew this was 'it'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Conversation With Michael Kennedy". Montage Magazine: 11–17. 2008.
  6. ↑ "Sheridan professor wins a Kidscreen Award for film #Roxy". Sheridan College. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "2023 Visionaries". Toronto Metropolitan University. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  8. ↑ "The Power of Film, Television & Comedy as Agents for Social Change: A Conversation with the Creators of Little Mosque on the Prairie". Toronto Metropolitan University. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
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  10. ↑ Pinto, Jordan. "Cameras rolling on #ROXY" . Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  11. ↑ Jacobs, Meredith (12 October 2023). "'How to Fall in Love by the Holidays' Starring Teri Hatcher, Plus More Holiday Treats Coming to Roku". TV Insider. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
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