John Kent Harrison
Director, producer, screenwriter
John Kent Harrison (JKH) is a film and television director and writer who is best known for his work in the international mini-series format. He is currently writing Fur Trading In America, a novel based on his canoe trip from London Ontario to New Orleans in the summer of 1969.n 2003 he co-wrote and directed A Bear Named Winnie, which became one of the highest rated 2-hour TV movies in Canadian history and was nominated for four Genie awards, winning two. Two years later he wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated miniseries, Pope John Paul II, starring Jon Voight. Also in the four-hour miniseries format, JKH directed Helen of Troy, which won an Emmy, A Wrinkle in Time, which won the Best Feature Film Award at the International Children's Film Festival in Toronto in 2003 and The Sound and the Silence, which won the CableACE Award for Best Foreign Television Movie of the Year. In the last fifteen years, Mr. Harrison has directed and written numerous other award-winning films. Among these, one of the most memorable is You Know My Name, a two-hour he wrote and directed for Sam Elliott and TNT. It won the coveted Wrangler Award for Best Western Television Movie of the year at The Cowboy Hall of Fame. John Kent Harrison is a Canadian and American citizen. He presently lives in Portland, OR. In his spare time he writes fiction (his short story, Drugstore Cowboy, was anthologized by Oxford University Press) and enjoys giving professional workshops in advanced filmmaking.
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