Robert Kenner

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert Kenner is an American film and television screenwriter television director film director film producer and television producer His career began in 1971 as an assistant cinematographer and produced his first motion picture 315 The Moment of Truth in 1984 although it was not released until 1986 His second feature film did not come until 1991s Lonely Hearts His first breakout project was the televised documentary The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal which he produced for the National Geographic Society and which aired in 1993 on PBS The following year he directed and produced Russias Last Tsar for National Geographic and PBS He also directed and produced Americas Endangered Species Dont Say Goodbye in 1996 The International Documentary Association presented the picture with the Strand Award for Best Documentary Kenner began a long association with the awardwinning PBS documentary television program American Experience in 1998 That year he directed and produced the widely reviewed Influenza 1918 about the 1918 flu pandemicand followed it up with John Browns Holy War about abolitionist John Brown in 2001 His first documentary which he wrote directed and produced was War Letters which aired on American Experience in 2001 The documentary is based on the 2001 New York Times bestselling book War Letters Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by historian Andrew Carroll He produced the episode The Road to Memphis for the 2003 PBS documentary series The Blues and in 2005 produced and directed the Vietnam War documentary Two Days in October The documentary was the season premiere of American Experience The film which is based on David Maraniss book They Marched into Sunlight looks at the parallels between a Viet Cong ambush of a US Army patrol and the subsequent coverup of the loss by the American military and a violent clash between police and student protesters at the University of WisconsinMadisonevents which occurred 24 hours apart in October 1967 The episode was nominated for and won the award for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking at the 2006 Emmy Awards In 2008 Kenner produced and directed the documentary film Food Inc which examines largescale agricultural food production in the United States concluding that the meat and vegetables produced by this type of economic enterprise leads to inexpensive but environmentally harmful and unhealthy food Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Kenner licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia