| Bruce Kennedy | |
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| Born | October 23, 1970 Greenwich, CT |
| Occupation | Television producer |
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| Bruce Kennedy (II) at the Internet Movie Database | |
Bruce Kennedy (born October 23, 1970) is an American Award-Winning television producer who specializes in non-fiction storytelling for television and film. Most recently, he is known as the director and writer of "Secret Access: The Vatican" [1] and the writer of "WWII in HD" [2] for the History Channel [3] and a series writer for "NextWorld" [4] on Discovery Channel [5].
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Born in 1970 in Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce graduated Princeton University with a degree in Classics, and has an MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his television career in Singapore in 1995, where he created and produced numerous regional television shows before returning to the US in 2000. He currently lives in New York City.
Kennedy was the Supervising Producer of the theatrically released 9/11 film "7 Days in September" [6] (winner of Cine Golden Eagle and Telly Awards) and worked with director Peter Gilbert on the civil rights film "With All Deliberate Speed", which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. His documentary for Sundance Channel Dust to Dust: the Health Effects of 9/11 - narrated by Steve Buscemi - traces the deteriorating medical conditions of 9/11's first responders. As the Supervising Producer and writer of Discovery's "Decisions That Shook the World", he earned a national Emmy Award in 2004.
He is also a Founder and Exec. Producer of the RIPfest Collaborative Film Project, a filmmaking event where teams of video professionals and artists are given 16 days to create high-quality DV short films from scratch based on the cast and locations assigned to them. Of the more than 50 films he executive-produced with RIPFest, many have gone on to win awards at festivals and air on TV.