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Robert Kenner is an American film and television screenwriter, television director, film director, film producer, and television producer. In 1993, Kenner produced ''The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal'' for National Geographic. The following year he directed and produced ''Russia’s Last Tsar'' for National Geographic and PBS. In 1996 Kenner directed and produced ''America’s Endangered Species: Don’t Say Goodbye'', which received the Strand Award for Best Documentary from the International Documentary Association. Kenner began a long association with the award-winning PBS documentary series ''American Experience'' in 1998. His films for the series include ''Influenza: 1918'', ''War Letters'' and ''John Brown's Holy War''. In 2003, Kenner worked as co-filmmaker with Richard Pearce on ''The Road to Memphis'' for Martin Scorsese’s series, The Blues. Newsweek called the film, “the unadulterated gem of the Scorsese series.” Kenner received a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and a Grierson award for his 2005 film, ''Two Days in October''.〔(65th Annual Peabody Awards ), May 2006.〕 The film examines two key events during the Vietnam War and how they shaped Americans’ views of the conflict. The film was Kenner’s last for ''American Experience''. Kenner has also directed a number of award-winning commercials and corporate videos for eBay, Hewlett Packard, Hallmark, and others. In 2008, Kenner produced and directed the documentary film, ''Food, Inc''., which examines the industrialization of the American food system and its impacts on workers, consumers, and the environment. ''Food, Inc''. won two Emmys as well as a Gotham award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. ''Variety'' wrote that ''Food Inc'' “does for the supermarket what Jaws did for the beach.” In 2011, Kenner released ''When Strangers Click'' for HBO. The film was nominated for an Emmy. In 2015, Kenner released Merchants of Doubt〔("Merchants of Doubt director Robert Kenner delves into the world of skeptics-for-hire" ). ''Q'' on CBC Radio One, 10 March 2015〕 inspired by Naomi Oreskes' and Erik Conway's book of the same name. The film explore how a handful of skeptics have obscured the truth on issues from Tobacco smoke, to toxic chemicals, to global warming. "The Nation" described Merchants of Doubt as "like a social-issues documentary by Samuel Beckett. You laugh as you contemplate everyone's doom". Kenner is currently working on a film adaptation of Eric Schlosser's book, "Command and Control". The film is scheduled to be released in 2016. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Kenner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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