Kevin Eastwood

Kevin Eastwood is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and film and television producer. He is best known for directing the CBC Television documentaries Humboldt: The New Season and After the Sirens and the Knowledge Network series Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH. His credits as a producer include the movies Fido, Preggoland and The Delicate Art of Parking, the television series The Romeo Section, and the documentaries Haida Modern, Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World and Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson.

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Kevin Eastwood
Born
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Alma materEmily Carr University of Art and Design
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker, film and television producer
Years active2001–present
Spouse(s)Wynn Deschner (2016-present)
Website

Career

Eastwood started his film career in 2000 at the feature film production company, Anagram Pictures.[1] While at Anagram, he was associate producer on Andrew Currie's first feature, Mile Zero, and co-produced the comedies The Delicate Art of Parking and Fido and was the supervising producer on the CTV movie Elijah, about the life of Canadian Indigenous leader, Elijah Harper. 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 which was released in theatres across Canada by Entertainment One. This started him on a course of alternating producing documentaries like Do You Really Want to Know? directed by John Zaritsky, and Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World directed by Charles Wilkinson, with dramatic projects like Preggoland directed by Jacob Tierney, and The Romeo Section from TV creator and showrunner Chris Haddock.[2]

In 2013, Eastwood directed Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH, an award-winning documentary series about the public healthcare system.[3] Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH brought record-breaking audiences to the Knowledge Network[4] and won Leo Awards for Best Documentary Series and The People's Choice Award for Favourite TV series.[5]

Since Emergency Room, Eastwood has directed Humboldt: The New Season, a documentary for CBC Television about the survivors of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in which 16 people died (nominated in 2020 for Best Documentary Program by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television)[6]; After the Sirens, also for CBC, about the epidemic of PTSD among paramedics[7] (nominated in 2019 for Best Documentary Program by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television)[8]; and The Death Debate, for Telus Optik TV, about the landmark Carter v Canada Supreme Court case on physician-assisted dying[9] (Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Direction). Eastwood also directed the music video for Post-War Blues by Dan Mangan (an homage to Dr. Strangelove starring Don McKellar);[10] and the Gemini Award-nominated short documentary Douglas Coupland: 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 movies theatres and bought his first video camera when he was 15.[11] He studied film at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, making him the third generation in his family to go to art school.[12] He married his wife, Wynn Deschner, in 2016.

Filmography

Feature Films

Documentary

Television

Awards

Eastwood has won a Gemini Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (Best TV Movie for Elijah),[13] three Leo Awards (for Elijah and Emergency Room), the Allan King Award from the Directors Guild of Canada (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).[14]

He has also been nominated for five Canadian Screen Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (for Humboldt: The New Season, After the Sirens, The Death Debate and Emergency Room), a further six Golden Sheaf Awards by the Yorkton Film Festival and a further nine Leo Awards.

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References
  1. Marke Andrews (2016-04-19). "Profile: Kevin Eastwood, founder, Optic Nerve Films". Business in Vancouver.
  2. Marke Andrews (2016-04-19). "Profile: Kevin Eastwood, founder, Optic Nerve Films". Business in Vancouver.
  3. Marsha Lederman (2014-01-07). "A real-life ER pulls back the curtain on public health care". The Globe and Mailn.
  4. Peter Darbyshire (2014-02-13). "Vancouver ER documentary series is the ultimate reality television". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2014-05-07.
  5. "The Filmmakers". Haidagwaii Film. Haidagwaii Film. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  6. "Humboldt The New Season". Academy.ca. Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  7. Adrian Mack (2018-04-07). "After the Sirens reveals hidden epidemic of PTSD among paramedics". The Georgia Straight.
  8. "After The Sirens". Academy.ca. Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  9. Sabrina Furminger (2016-03-23). "'The Death Debate' examines Canada's right-to-die movement". Westender.
  10. François Marchand (2012-04-13). "Vancouver fave Dan Mangan releases Dr. Strangelove-themed Post-War Blues video". Vancouver Sun.
  11. Marke Andrews (2016-04-19). "Profile: Kevin Eastwood, founder, Optic Nerve Films". Business in Vancouver.
  12. "About Kevin Eastwood". OpticNerveFilms.ca. Optic Nerve Films. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  13. "Kevin Eastwood". Canadian Film Centre. Canadian Film Centre. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  14. Cassandra Szklarski (2015-05-01). "'Haida Gwaii' film wins top prize at Hot Docs". CTV news.
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