Kevin Tierney

brbKbevin Tierney was an awardwinning producer and screenwriter and the founder of Park Ex Pictures a company specializing in longform filmmaking Tierney produced and was cowriter of the 2006 hit film emBon Cop Bad Copem the first bilingual feature film made in Canada It not only won a a hrefcanadianfilmawardsgeniesGenie Awarda for Best Picture but went on win the Golden Reel Award as the highest grossing Canadian movie that year Tierney was a member of the Boards of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association and Montreals Cine Gael Irish Film festival He also served as President of the Board of the Cinematheque Qubecoise Tierneys television productions were nominated for 11 Emmys and 12 Geminis In 1993 he produced the documentary emPierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirsem with Rock Demers which went on to win a Gemeaux for Best Documentary Among his other productions are the movies for television including emChoice The Henry Morgentaler Story Varians Warem and the miniseries emMore Tales of the City PT Barnumem and emBonanno A Godfathers Storyem His passing was announced online with the words My dad the amazing Kevin Tierney left us this morning at 415 My sister mom and I were all there his son Jacob Tierney wrote on Instagram Kevin Tierney died following a long fight with cancer brAlso see a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscatierneyjacobJacob TierneyabrAlso see a hreftierneybrigidBrigid TierneyabrAlso see Kevin Tierney talks about a hrefhttpsvimeocom146770654 relnoopener targetblankThe Making of French Immersionabrbrbr