Kevin McKiernan

Kevin McKiernan is a veteran foreign correspondent, photographer and documentary filmmaker.[1][2][3][4]

McKiernan's work, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize,[5] has taken him to some of the world's most troubled regions, from Nicaragua to Iraq and Syria,[6] from West Africa to Afghanistan.[7][8] He has been widely published in national and international media.[8][9][10] An expert on the Kurds,[11][12] St. Martin's Press released his book, THE KURDS: A People in Search of Their Homeland. McKiernan wrote and directed the PBS documentary Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, which The New York Times called "searing."[13][14] In addition to Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, McKiernan co-produced the documentary The Spirit of Crazy Horse for PBS Frontline.[8] In 2011, he completed Bringing King to China, a documentary that premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.[15][16][17][18] Ethnic Cleansing: The Story of the Rohingya,[19] a short film, will premiere at the Ojai Film Festival in November 2014.[20] His newest film, A Line In The Sand,[21] is in post-production.

Education and personal life

McKiernan holds a J.D. from Northeastern University Law School and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of St. Thomas. He was also awarded an Honorary M.S. from the Brooks Institute of Photography, and received a Master's Certificate from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. He is an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. McKiernan is a son of the late Eoin McKiernan, one of the early major scholars of the field of Irish Studies.[22][23][24]

References

  1. ↑ http://thebulletin.org/bio/kevin-mckiernan
  2. ↑ http://www.macfound.org/documentaryfilm/208/
  3. ↑ http://www.iup.edu/newsItem.aspx?id=163023&blogid=7311
  4. ↑ http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2009/04/mspiff_kevin_mc.shtml
  5. ↑ http://www.kevinmckiernan.com/pulitzer.html
  6. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/20/weekinreview/the-world-in-kurdistan-no-end-in-sight-for-this-us-relief-effort.html
  7. ↑ http://www.irishartscenter.org/film/an_saighdiur.html
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 http://www.kevinmckiernan.com
  9. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gravely-wounded-in-iraq-kurdish-refugee-completes-journey-to-become-us-citizen/2014/06/25/c0be28a4-fb14-11e3-b1f4-8e77c632c07b_story.html
  10. ↑ http://www.independent.com/news/2012/dec/13/report-kurdish-syria/
  11. ↑ http://washingtonspectator.org/an-ancient-groups-struggle-provides-clues-to-the-future-of-the-middle-east/
  12. ↑ http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Kurds.html?id=PWPdGjzN2egC
  13. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/16/movies/no-fluff-no-gimmickry-in-these-searing-stories.html
  14. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233812/
  15. ↑ http://www.independent.com/news/2011/jan/30/embringing-king-chinaem/
  16. ↑ http://www.documentary.org/magazine/doc-nyc-2nd-edition-more-more
  17. ↑ http://www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/News-Events/Events/Past-Events/2012/Bringing-King-to-China-Film-Screening-Discussion
  18. ↑ http://www.cincinnatifilmfestival.com/about-cff/cff-winners/
  19. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647362/
  20. ↑ http://www.ojaifilmfestival.com/documentaries-2014
  21. ↑ http://old.sffs.org/donate/donate-now.aspx?pid=1153
  22. ↑ http://irishamerica.com/2014/05/the-last-word-the-father-of-irish-studies/
  23. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/22/local/me-passings22.1
  24. ↑ http://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/03/02/1973-irish

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