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 '. 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, ' and .

Career

Eastwood started his film career in 2000 at the feature film production company, Anagram Pictures. 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, ' 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 ' directed by Charles Wilkinson, with dramatic projects like Preggoland directed by Jacob Tierney, and The Romeo Section from TV creator and showrunner Chris Haddock.
In 2013, Eastwood directed , an award-winning documentary series about the public healthcare system. Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH brought record-breaking audiences to the Knowledge Network and won Leo Awards for Best Documentary Series and The People's Choice Award for Favourite TV series.
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 ; After the Sirens, also for CBC, about the epidemic of PTSD among paramedics ; and The Death Debate, for Telus Optik TV, about the landmark Carter v Canada Supreme Court case on physician-assisted dying. Eastwood also directed the music video for Post-War Blues by Dan Mangan ; 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. He studied film at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, making him the third generation in his family to go to art school. He married his wife, Wynn Deschner, in 2016.

Filmography

Feature Films

Eastwood has won a Gemini Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, three Leo Awards, the Allan King Award from the Directors Guild of Canada, four Golden Sheaf Awards, and the top prize at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival.
He has also been nominated for five Canadian Screen Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, a further six Golden Sheaf Awards by the Yorkton Film Festival and a further nine Leo Awards.