Jeff B. Harmon

Jeff B. Harmon is a writer, director and producer whose films have created considerable controversy and earned him three execution orders on his life. His documentaries for British and American television such as The Front Line (1983), Jihad^×Afghanistan's Holy War (1986) and Afgan (1989) have won numerous awards including Britain's prestigious Royal Television Society Award, the Ace Award and the Grand Award at the Houston International Film Festival. Harmon is also a former war correspondent and photographer who spent twenty years capturing the dark side of history. A visitor to the abyss, he covered Emperor Bokassa's coronation, the fall of Idi Amin, the Nazi underground in Paraguay, the war in El Salvador, the war in Afghanistan from both the Mujahideen and Soviet sides and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Harmon took a surreal leap from war documentaries to musical comedy with his first feature film, Isle of Lesbos (1997). Like his documentaries, Isle of Lesbos has polarized audiences around the world but this time without a price on his head.