Kevin Eastwood is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and film and
television producer
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Knowledge Network
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Preggoland
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'' and ''
The Delicate Art of Parking
''The Delicate Art of Parking'' is a 2003 Canadian comedy/mockumentary film, directed by Trent Carlson, and produced by Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie and Kevin Eastwood.
It received numerous awards, including the Golden Zenith Award for Best Feat ...
'', the television series ''
The Romeo Section
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Eastwood started his film career in 2000 at the feature film production company, Anagram Pictures. While at Anagram, he was associate producer on Andrew Currie's first feature, ''
Mile Zero
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'', and co-produced the comedies ''
The Delicate Art of Parking
''The Delicate Art of Parking'' is a 2003 Canadian comedy/mockumentary film, directed by Trent Carlson, and produced by Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie and Kevin Eastwood.
It received numerous awards, including the Golden Zenith Award for Best Feat ...
'' and '' Fido'' and was the supervising producer on the CTV movie ''Elijah'', about the life of Canadian
Oji-Cree
The Oji-Cree are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west.
The Oji-Cree people are d ...
politician,
Elijah Harper
Elijah Harper (March 3, 1949 – May 17, 2013) was a Canadian Oji-Cree politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (MLA) from 1981 to 1992 and a member of Parliament (MP) from 1993 to 1997. Harper was elected chie ...
. He left Anagram in 2008 to be an independent producer and produced his first documentary, '' Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson'' directed by
Trish Dolman
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John Zaritsky
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Charles Wilkinson Charles Wilkinson may refer to:
* Charles Wilkinson (MP) (1725–1782), English Member of Parliament
*Charles Edmund Wilkinson (1807–1870), acting Governor of British Ceylon
* Charles Wilkinson (cricketer) (1813–1889), English cricketer and cle ...
, with dramatic projects like ''
Preggoland
''Preggoland'' is a 2014 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney and written by Sonja Bennett. The film stars Bennett as Ruth, a 35-year-old single woman who falsely claims to be pregnant to deflect her friends' and family's mounting dis ...
'' directed by
Jacob Tierney
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, and ''
The Romeo Section
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'' from TV creator and showrunner
Chris Haddock
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.
In 2013, Eastwood directed '' Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH'', an award-winning documentary series about the public healthcare system. ''Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH'' brought record-breaking audiences to the
Knowledge Network
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and won
Leo Awards
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for Best Documentary Series and The People's Choice Award for Favourite TV series.
Since Emergency Room, Eastwood has directed '' Humboldt: The New Season'', a documentary for CBC Television about the survivors of the
Humboldt Broncos bus crash
On April 6, 2018, sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured when a northbound coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the semi-truck had failed to yield at a flashing stop ...
in which 16 people died (nominated in 2020 for Best Documentary Program by the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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Canadian Screen Award
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nominee for Best Direction). Eastwood also directed the music video for ''Post-War Blues'' by
Dan Mangan
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(an homage to ''
Dr. Strangelove
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'' starring
Don McKellar
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He is known for directing and writing th ...
); and the Gemini Award-nominated short documentary ''
Douglas Coupland
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: Pop Artist'', as well as multiple documentary projects for the BC Civil Liberties Association, Canada's longest-running civil liberties association.
Personal life
Eastwood was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. His mother was a painter and his father a commercial artist. He started working in movie theatres and bought his first video camera when he was 15. He studied film at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, making him the third generation in his family to go to art school. He married his wife, Wynn Deschner, in 2016.
Filmography
Feature films
* ''
Mile Zero
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'' (2001) - Associate Producer
* ''
The Delicate Art of Parking
''The Delicate Art of Parking'' is a 2003 Canadian comedy/mockumentary film, directed by Trent Carlson, and produced by Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie and Kevin Eastwood.
It received numerous awards, including the Golden Zenith Award for Best Feat ...
Preggoland
''Preggoland'' is a 2014 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney and written by Sonja Bennett. The film stars Bennett as Ruth, a 35-year-old single woman who falsely claims to be pregnant to deflect her friends' and family's mounting dis ...
'' (2014) - Producer
Documentary
* ''12 Takes'' (2010) - Director (segment: ''Douglas Coupland: Pop Artist'')
* '' Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson'' (2011) - Producer
* '' Do You Really Want to Know?'' (2012) - Producer
* '' Oil Sands Karaoke'' (2013) - Executive Producer
* '' Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World'' (2015) - Executive Producer
* ''The Death Debate'' (2016) - Director/Producer/Writer
* ''Vancouver: No Fixed Address'' (2017) - Executive Producer
* '' After the Sirens'' (2018) - Director/Producer/Writer
* ''Humboldt: The New Season'' (2019) - Director/Writer
* '' Haida Modern'' (2019) - Executive Producer
Elijah
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My El (deity), God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic language, Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) w ...
'' (2007) - Supervising Producer
* ''Confessions: Animal Hoarding'' (2011-2012) - Director
* '' Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH'' (2014-2016) - Director/Co-Executive Producer
* ''
The Romeo Section
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Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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(Best TV Movie for ''Elijah''), six
Leo Awards
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(for ''British Columbia: An Untold History'', ''Haida Modern'', ''Emergency Room'' and ''Elijah''), the Allan King Award from the
Directors Guild of Canada
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(for ''Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World''), four Golden Sheaf Awards (including the 2020 Ruth Shaw Award for ''Humboldt: The New Season''), and the top prize at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival (for ''Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World'').
He has also been nominated for six
Canadian Screen Awards
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by the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize the achievements of the over 4,000 Canadian cinema of Canada, film industry and television in Canada, television industry professionals ...
(for ''British Columbia: An Untold History'', ''Humboldt: The New Season'', ''After the Sirens'', ''The Death Debate'' and ''Emergency Room''), a further six Golden Sheaf Awards by the
Yorkton Film Festival
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In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ...
and a further nine
Leo Awards
The Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry. Held each May or June in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Leo Awards were founded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British C ...