DAVID KENNARD - CREDITS 1969 – 2008

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Credits: 2000 – 2008

ReCreating America: the Flower Mound Story (2008)

Clients: Creative Oklahoma Inc
First pilot film for national PBS series on creativity, launched in Oklahoma City, February 2008
(Series Producer/Co-producer/Co-writer/Co-director)

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Clean Fish: the Loch Duart and Guaymas stories (2007-8)

Clients: Clean Fish Inc.
The first two of several short films, featuring artisan fishermen around the world
(Co-producer/Writer)

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Keeping Score: the First Series (2006)

Clients: San Francisco Symphony, Haas Jr.Foundation and PBS/KQED
3-part series on classical music featuring Michael Tilson Thomas
(Series Producer/Co-producer/Co-writer/Co-director)
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Global Warming: the Signs and the Science (2006)

Clients: PBS/SCETV, Stonehaven (Montreal) and Toyota Corporation
90-minute special on climate change, hosted by Alanis Morisette
(Co-Writer/Producer/Co-director for PBS)

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The Power of the Sun (2005)

Clients: University of California, PBS
One-hour documentary and educational special on the history of light and solar power

Featuring Nobel-prizewinner Walter Kohn, hosted by John Cleese
(Producer/Director/Co-Writer)
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John Cleese's Wine For the Confused (2004)

Clients: The Food Network and MY Television
Special feature on wine for the Food Channel, starring John Cleese
(Co-Writer/Producer/Director/Co-photographer)
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One Bite of the Apple (2004)

Clients: PBS/SCETV, Royal Oak Foundation and others
Portrait of Winston Churchill’s grand-daughter, artist Edwina Sandys
(Co-Producer/Writer/Director/Co-photographer)
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Unforgivable? (2004)

Clients: Dietrich/Watson, Forgiveness Project
Pilot for new series on Forgiveness, featuring H.E. The Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere
(Co-Producer/Writer/Co-director)

Keeping Score: The Making of a Performance (2004)

Clients: San Francisco Symphony and KQED for Great Performances (PBS/WNET)
Pilot for new series on classical music featuring Michael Tilson Thomas
(Co-Producer/Writer/Director)
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Surviving September 11th (2002)

Clients: UCLA Center for Community Health and PBS/APT
A half-hour special featuring the effects of 9/11 on one New York family

(Executive/Senior Producer)

Stories of Hope (2002)

Client: Institute of Noetic Sciences
30-minute instructional video on medical remissions
(Executive Producer/Co-writer)

Coming of Age (2001)
Client: Copia – the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts / Perini Productions
8 minute signature film for the new Napa Valley wine center, featuring Robert Mondavi

(Producer/Director/Writer)

2001: HAL’s Legacy (2001)
Clients: South Carolina Educational TV/PBS/The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
60 and 90 minute Specials about Artificial Intelligence, featuring Arthur C. Clarke and the movie "2001:A Space Odyssey"

(Executive Producer/Co-director/Co-writer)

The Final Hours : Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (2000)
Clients: Romeo Delta Productions/South Carolina Educational TV/ PBS/National Air & Space Museum/Smithsonian Institution
Documentary recreation of Amelia Earhart's fateful 1937 journey, shot in 19 countries worldwide (Senior Producer/Writer/Co-director/Co-composer)

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The Promise of Play (1999-2000)
Clients: American Public Television/American Toy Institute
Three-part national series about the role of play in the lives of adults, children and animals.

Featuring Jane Goodall and Patch Adams

(Co-executive Producer/Co-director/Co-writer)

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Credits: 1990 – 1999

Africa's Children (1999)
Clients: Thomas Gale Trust/InCA Africa/PBS
Documentary special about teenage girls in Kenya: their problems and triumphs. For distribution in US, Europe and Africa

(Co-producer/co-writer)

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Inner Journeys (1998/9)
Clients: Cross Cultural Journeys/Institute of Noetic Sciences
Pilot for a series of travel videos to exotic destinations, focussing on the spiritual quest of the participants.(Executive Producer/Co-writer)

For the Defense (1998)
Client: Defense Research Institute
Ten-minute corporate video on future impact of technology on practise of law, for national distribution to defense lawyers

(Producer/Director/Writer)

Amelia Earhart's Last Voyage (1997)
Clients: Institutional Venture Partners
Corporate video for venture capital company, later developed into "The Final Hours" (see 2000 above)

(Producer/Director/Writer)

Le Cassoulet (1997)
Clients: AURA Productions/InCA France
Promotional video for the cuisine of the Toulouse Region of France

(Director/On-screen host)

Electric Minds (1997)
Clients: Electric Minds, Softbank Inc
Corporate launch video for new website/online community

(Producer/Director/Writer)

Pulling Out All the Stops (1996/7)
Clients: PBS/American Guild of Organists (AGO)
Music special for national release, celebrating the Centennial of the AGO, featuring pipe organs in concerts, theaters and churches all over America. Also training film and sales tape

(Producer/Co-director/Co-writer)

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T.H.E. Course (1996)
Clients: Glaxo Wellcome, Foote Cone & Belding
Public Education film on AIDS and HIV

(Producer/Director/Co-writer)

Global One (1996)
Clients: Sprint, The Shandwick Group
Launch video for new international telephone consortium Sprint/France Telecom/Deutsche Telecom (Producer/Director/Co-writer)

V-R Cybercampus (1996)
Clients: Levi Stauss & Co, NTT:DoCoMo of Japan
World's first combination of virtual reality and teleconferencing, beta tested in kiosks on campuses throughout San Francisco area and in Las Vegas

(Writer/Co-creator/Executive Producer)

Crown Blue Summer (1995)
Clients: Crown Blue Line/AURA Productions/InCA France
Promotional video for French cruise line

(Co-producer/Writer/Narrator)

Our Fragile Fortress (1995)
Clients: KTEH/PBS. Funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Sun Microsystems.
Documentary special on infectious disease in urban centers of the US

(Co-director/Co-writer/Co-Producer)

The Heart of Healing (1993/4)
Clients: Turner Broadcasting (TBS)/Time Life Video and Television
Two versions of a multi-part series, featuring connections between psychology and medicine, filmed in twelve countries worldwide. Hosted by Jane Seymour

(Creator/Co-writer/Series Producer)

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Dangerous Years (1992)
Clients: The Discovery Channel, National Video Communications (NVC)
One hour special on the Cold War in the 1950's, featuring Presidents Nixon, Bush, and Reagan, CIA and KGB operatives. Hosted by John Chancellor of NBC, premiered November 3, 1991

(Co-writer/Senior Producer/Director)

Apple Global (1992)
Client: Apple Computer
Fifteen-minute global presentation tape to announce the restructuring of Apple and the launch of Power Book laptops

(Writer/Producer/Director)

Things to Come (1991)
Clients: Channel 4 (UK), La Sept (France) RTVE (Spain)
Thirteen-part series on the future, shot throughout Europe and the US, created for commercial broadcasters worldwide (with video distribution in US)

(Creator/Co-writer/Series Producer)

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Imagine This World (1990)
Clients: Unum Corp, National Foundation for People with Disabilities, NVC
Two versions of half-hour special featuring two girls with cerebral palsy for PBS release

(Producer/Director)

Little by Little (1990)
Client: Channel Four Television, London
One-hour special on revolutionary new "nanotechnology" and microtechnology. Winner of CNRS/International Science Film Festival Jury Prize

(Writer/Director/Coproducer)

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Credits: 1980 – 1989

Minidragons (1989)
Clients: NHK/Japan, Film Australia, WMPT (Maryland)
A series of four documentaries on South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore

(Co-Executive Producer).

The Blue Revolution (1987)
Clients: Mare Nostrum Foundation/The Discovery Channel
Eight-part series featuring adventures on the world's oceans

(Developer/Co-writer)

We The People (1987)
Clients: KQED/PBS, Merrill Lynch, the American Bar Association
A four-part series with Peter Jennings, celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution

(Co-Series Producer/Director)

The West of the Imagination (1986)
Clients: The Stark Foundation, KERA/PBS
Six drama-documentaries on the artists of the American West

(Executive & Series Producer/Co-director/Co-writer)

The Living Body (1985)
Clients: The Discovery Channel/Goldcrest
A twenty-six part series on the human body, hosted by Dr. Christian Barnard

(Producer/Director of three episodes)

The Heart of the Dragon (1983/4)
Clients: Channel Four Television (UK) and PBS
A twelve-part series on China with Robin McNeil and Jim Lehrer

(Producer/Director and Co-writer)

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The Hero's Journey (1982)
Clients: PBS and video/educational distribution
A video and TV special with Joseph Campbell

(Director)

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The Communications Revolution (1980)
Clients: Coronet/MTI and National Video Communications
A three-part series on the history of human communications, co-hosted by Arthur C. Clarke

(Executive Producer/Location Director/Co-host)

Cosmos (1980)
PBS & BBC
A thirteen-part series on astronomy and the planet Earth, hosted by Carl Sagan

(Senior Producer and Location Director)

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Credits: 1969 – 1979

Connections (1978)
PBS & BBC
Ten-part series on creativity, inventions and technology starring James Burke

(Co-Series Producer/Director)

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The Age of Uncertainty (1976)
BBC & PBS
Thirteen-part series on history of politics, society and economics, with John Kenneth Galbraith

(Co-producer/Co-director)

The Sunday Debate (1974-1975)
BBC
Three twelve-part studio-based series on major social issues, hosted by Sir Robin Day

(Series Producer)

Children of the Way (1974)
BBC
One-hour film documentary on the problems facing young immigrant Muslim girls in Britain.

Hosted by David Attenborough

(Producer/Director/Writer)

The Ascent of Man (1972)
BBC and Time-Life Films
Thirteen-part series on the history of science and civilization presented by Jacob Bronowski

(Co-producer/co-director)

Germany (1970)
BBC and NDR (Germany)
A ten-part series on the history of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler and the Berlin Wall.

Featuring, among many others, former Nazis Baldur von Schirach and Putzi Hanfstaengel

(Co-director)

So You Think You're a Good Husband/Wife (1969)
BBC
Two studio entertainment/information specials on marriage, featuring Brian Rix and Elspeth Gray (Director)

Seven Seconds To Run (1969)
BBC and ABC (Australia)

Docudrama, recreating the work of Britain's bomb disposal squads: one of a series "He Who Dares"

(Director)

DAVID KENNARD - BIOGRAPHY