Michael Kennedy

Birthday: May 16, 1954 in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Michael Kennedy is an award-winning, genre-jumping director with a reputation for creating stylish films that achieve both critical and commercial success. He has directed 15 feature-length films/TV m ...Show More

Michael Kennedy is an award-winning, genre-jumping director with a reputation for creating stylish films that achieve both critical and commercial success. He has directed 15 feature-length films/TV movies and over 225 episodes of prime-time television drama and comedy including every episode of the first season of the ground-breaking "Little Mosque On The Prairie".Michael is often brought in early to help develop a new TV series. Besides the pilot of "Little Mosque" he also directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of "Pure Pwnage", "Delmer and Marta", "North South", "Mental Block", "Listen Missie", "Screech Owls", "P.R.", "Taking The Falls", "My Life and a Movie", "The Good Germany", "This Space For Rent" and "Jets". He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed comedy series "Kids In The Hall" and directed 14 episodes of the award-winning "Made In Canada" series starring Rick Mercer.His international reputation has led Michael to direct movies in many countries: "Jets" was filmed in Munich, Texas, and Los Angeles; "Broken Lullaby" in Budapest; "One Man Out" in Mexico; "Caribe" in Belize; "Calculated Risk" in Germany, and 9 others were filmed in Canada. Michael also wrote the scripts for three of the feature films he directed.Michael has received: 2 Directors Guild of Canada Awards from 8 nominations; a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award; winner of Best Director at the Canadian Music Video Awards; 3 Best Director Gemini nominations; and 3 wins from 10 nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards. Hide