Gil Kenan (born October 16, 1976) is a British-American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work on the films Monster House and City of Ember. Kenan was born in London. When he was three, his family moved to Tel Aviv. At age eight, they moved to Reseda, Los Angeles. He studied at the film division of the University of California, Los Angeles where he received a MFA degree in animation in 2002. For his graduate thesis, he created a 10-minute stop-motion/live-action film, The Lark. The first public screening of The Lark caught the attention of Jordan Bealmear, who was an assistant at Creative Artists Agency. The agency sent hundreds of copies of Kenan's short to interested parties in the film industry, and after a few months of interviews, Robert Zemeckis offered Kenan the director's chair for his first feature, 2006's Monster House. Executive produced by Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, it was nominated for a 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Kenan followed Monster House with City of Ember, a post-apocalyptic adventure based on Jeanne Duprau's 2003 novel. Produced by Tom Hanks, it was released in October 2008 to mixed reviews but poor box office results. Kenan's next film, Poltergeist, a remake of the 1982 Tobe Hooper film of the same name, was released in May 2015. In July of that same year, Kenan signed on to direct and co-write a film adaptation of the video game Five Nights at Freddy's but later withdrew from the project. In 2005, Kenan married Eliza Chaikin, who served as art director on City of Ember.

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