Michael Kennedy (director)

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Michael Kennedy (born 1954) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Career[]

Michael Kennedy is a filmmaker who has directed 16 feature-length films/TV movies and over 230 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the entire first season of the ground-breaking sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Besides the pilot of Little Mosque, he also directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of , , North/South, , Mental Block, , , P.R., Taking the Falls, and . He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed comedy series The Kids in the Hall, and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada.

Kennedy has directed feature films in many countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the US, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Man Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and ten others in Canada. He also wrote the screenplays for three of the feature films he directed.

Kennedy now lives with his wife, Carrie, and their three children in a suburb of Toronto, Canada, but they try to spend their summers at their cottage on Prince Edward Island, his home province.

Credits[]

Director[]

• #Roxy (2018)
• Good Witch (2 episodes, 2017)
• (pilot, 2014)
• (pilot and entire first season, 2014–15)
• Odd Squad (2 episodes, 2014)
• Annedroids (5 episodes, 2014)
• (3 web shorts, 2013)
• (52 short films, 2011 and 2013)
• What's Up Warthogs! (14 episodes, 2011-2012)
• That's So Weird! (7 episodes, 2011-2012)
• Really Me (2 episodes, 2012)
• She's the Mayor (2 episodes, 2011)
• Little Mosque on the Prairie (37 episodes, 2007-2011)
• Pure Pwnage (2 episodes, 2010)
• The Good Company (1 episode, 2010)
• (2009)
• The Smart Woman Survival Guide (3 episodes, 2007)
• This Space for Rent (2 episodes, 2007)
• North/South (5 episodes, 2006)
• G-Spot (6 episodes, 2006)
• Metropia (10 episodes, 2005-2006)
• Mental Block (9 episodes, 2003-2004)
• Made in Canada (13 episodes, 1999-2003)
• Emily of New Moon (6 episodes, 1998-2002)
• Blackfly (7 episodes, 2001-2002)
• Rideau Hall (2 episodes, 2002)
• Murder Among Friends (2001) (TV)
• Screech Owls (2 episodes, 2001)
• P.R. (7 episodes, 2000-2001)
• Wind at My Back (2 episodes, 2000)
• The City (1 episode, 2000)
• Little Men (1 episode, 1999)
• The Hoop Life (1999) TV series (unknown episodes)
• So Weird (2 episodes, 1999)
• JETS - Leben am Limit (1999) (TV)
• (1997) (TV)
• (1996)
• Robin of Locksley (1996) (TV)
• (1996) (TV)
• (1995)
• (1995) (TV)
• Taking the Falls (2 episodes, 1995)
• (1994) (TV)
• Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
• Talons of the Eagle (1992)
• (1992)
• The Kids in the Hall (9 episodes, 1991-1992)
• (1989)
• Caribe (1987)

Writer[]

• JETS - Leben am Limit (1 episode, 1999)
• (1992)
• (1989)
• Degrassi Junior High (1 episode, 1988)
• Caribe (1987) (uncredited)

Actor[]

• These Foolish Things (1977) as Wilson
• Trailer Park Boys - Reggie (2017–2018)

Cinematographer[]

• These Foolish Things (1977)

Awards/Nominations[]

Kennedy has received two Directors Guild of Canada Awards (from five nominations), a Directors Guild of America Award nomination, three Best Director Gemini nominations, three wins from nine nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards, and Best Director at the Canadian Music Video Awards.

External links[]

• Michael Kennedy at IMDb
• Directors Guild of Canada
• New York Times^{[dead link]}