Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer.

Kennedy was born in Kensington, Prince Edward Island. He says he has ”PEI roots”. Kennedy lives in Mississauga with his wife, a psycho educational consultant and part-time model.

Kennedy is a professor at Sheridan College. In 2023,Toronto Metropolitation University's inducted Kennedy as a Visionary to their Image Arts Wall of Fame.

Kennedy has directed more than 20 feature-length films/TV movies and over 230 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the first season of the sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, that used humour to attack racism against Muslims in the post-911 world.

He directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of Delmer and Marta, My Life and a Movie, North/South, The Good Germany, Mental Block, Listen Missy, Screech Owls, P.R., Taking the Falls, and Jets. He was also one of the directors of the comedy series The Kids in the Hall, and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada. In 2023 he directed the romantic comedy series How to Fall in Love By the Holidays, starring Teri Hactcher.[10]

In 2016 he directed #Roxy, a film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac[11] released in 2018.

Kennedy has directed feature films in various countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the US, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Man Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and many others in Canada.

Kennedy wrote various films he directed, like Caribe or The Swordsman. He has also occasionally participated in films as actor .[12]