Jonathan Kennedy

Jonathan Kennedy is a filmmaker, writer and photographer from St. John's, Newfoundland. He studied political science and sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2014 he won the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters David C. Saxon Humanitarian Essay Award for an essay on the relationship between privacy, the surveillance state and the concept of "world peace." In 2016 he was selected to join 50 other filmmakers as part of Abbas Kiarostami's Auteur Workshop at the EICTV film school in Cuba. That same year his experimental short film Haunted received the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Award for Best Digital Media.