Andy Keen

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Andrew "Andy" John David Keen (born 1969) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. In addition to making the Juno Award-winning Escarpment Blues, Keen made the Gemini Award-nominated documentary Seven Painters Seven Places. His work has also appeared in a number of television commercials and music videos.

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[edit] Biography

Born to Bonnie and Martin Keen in Galt, Ontario, he moved frequently for the first five years of his life until the family settled in Oakville, Ontario. Keen studied at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, and Ryerson University in Toronto, before completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Art History) at Concordia University. A Ken Kesey inspired bus trip through the United States, where he met Oliver Stone in New Orleans, decided his career in film. After graduating, Keen moved to Toronto, where he began work in the film and television industry as a production assistant. Keen founded Regular Horse Productions in 1997 to produce documentaries and related works.

[edit] Other work

In 2007 Keen worked as DP with filmmaker Ron Mann on Know Your Mushrooms.

[edit] Awards

  • Best Picture Editing in a documentary (Gemini Award Nominee) Seven Painters Seven Places (2000)
  • Music DVD of The year (Juno Awards) Escarpment Blues 2006

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