John Kent Harrison

John Kent Harrison

Bio

Television producer, director and writer best known for his work in the international mini-series format. The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is his sixth Hallmark Hall of Fame film. This film recently won an Emmy Award and was nominated for two more. Johnäs previous projects have included William Fulkner‘s Old Man, one of the most critically acclaimed Hallmark presentations, which won two Emmy Awards, the Humanities Prize, the Christopher Medal and a Golden Reel; The Water is Wide, which received two Emmy nominations; What the Deaf Man Heard, which has been the highest-rated stand-alone 2-hour TV movie since 1991 and the most watched on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. He also wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated Pope John Paul II, starring Jon Voight, directed and co-wrote A Bear Named Winnie, which was the highest rated 2-hour-TV movie of the year in Canada for the last two years and which was nominated for four Genie awards, winning two; directed the four-hour Emmy-Award winning mini-series Helen of Troy, and A Wrinkle in Time, which won the Best Feature Film Award at the International Children’s Film Festival in Toronto in 2003. Mr. Harrison has directed and written numerous other award-winning films and mini-series. He has also taught communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal and advanced film production at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Cinema and is Chief Creative Officer of the Family Entertainment Group.

Filmography

2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (Dzieci Ireny Sendlerowej)
2007 Crossroads: a Story of Forgiveness
2005 Pope John Paul II (Jan Paweł II)
2004 A Bear Named Winnie
2004 The Winning Season
2003 A Wrinkle in Time
2003 Helen of Troy
2001 In Love and War
2000 A House Divided
1999 You Know My Name
1997 What the Deaf Man Heard
1997 Old Man
1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
1995 Johnny’s Girl
1994 For the Love of Aaron
1993 Whose Child Is This? the War For Baby Jessica
1992 The Sound and the Silence
1992 City Boy
1990 Beautiful Dreamers
1981 The Way of the Willow