
Kenneth J. Harvey
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 22, 1962
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.
Filmography

Striking Out the Boys 2026
Producer

The Bear Inside a Whale 2025
Director
- Calamus Variations
Calamus Variations 2024
Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematography
- The Governor of Georgetown
The Governor of Georgetown 2024
Director, Editor, Producer, Cinematography

What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George 2023
Cinematography, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer, Online Editor, Colorist

The Incredible Vanishing Sisters in the Death of the Garden of Eden 2022
Cinematography, Colorist, Online Editor, Producer, Director, Writer

It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt 2019
Producer, Director, Cinematography

Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt 2018
Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography

Aliment Roots 2018
Editor, Cinematography, Director
- The Drinking Life
The Drinking Life 2017
Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer, Director

I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night 2017
Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Director
- It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her
It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her 2015
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Editor, Sound Editor, Digital Effects Producer

Geek Assassin 2013
Director, Writer, Producer
- Mile End
Mile End 2012
Still Photographer

Our House 2012
Grip, Script Consultant
- Remains
Remains 2012
Director, Script, Editor, Cinematography
- Box
Box 2012
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
- It's a Girl
It's a Girl 2012
Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Editor

I'm 14 and I Hate the World 2011
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Credits from TMDB.