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THE
LIFE AND TIMES OF JEAN CHRÉTIEN— A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR
INSIDE LOOK AT THE LIFE AND CAREER OF THE PRIME MINISTER
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Terence McKenna's documentaries for
CBC Television and THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE include Ground Zero,
which marked the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima,
in 1995; Handover in Hong Kong, in 1997; and Return to My
Lai, in 1998. He has also reported extensively on Canadian
and Quebec politics.
In 1995, he presented War At Sea, a
history of the Canadian Navy during the Second World War that
aired on Witness. In 1994, he narrated and wrote a five-and-a-half-hour
CBC-TV documentary about the life and career of Pierre Trudeau,
which also won a Prix Gemeaux. In 1992, McKenna narrated and
co-authored the controversial, six-hour CBC-NFB documentary
series, The Valour and The Horror, for which he won a Gemini
Award as Best Documentary Writer. The series won both the
Gemini as Best Documentary and the French-language Prix Gemeaux
as the best television program of the year.
McKenna won four ACTRA Awards for his
journalistic expertise while with Sunday Morning. In 1978,
he won the Best Public Affairs Broadcaster Award and, in 1979,
was honoured as radio's Best Documentary Writer for Operation
White Knight: The Annihilation of Jonestown, his reports of
mass suicides in Guyana. In 1980, he won the Best Radio Program
of the Year and Best Documentary Writer awards for The Aftermath
of Jonestown.
McKenna moved to television in 1981,
joining The Journal and presenting documentaries on topics
such as black-market adoptions, the political use of food
during the Ethiopian famine and the search for Nazi war criminal
Josef Mengele. When The Journal ended in 1992, he joined CBC
Prime Time News.
In 1986, McKenna's documentary The
Heart Frontier won a science journalism award from the Canadian
Science Writers' Association. In 1988, he co-authored a feature
film, The Squamish Five, for CBC-TV Drama and, the same year,
won the Anik Wilderness Award for The Killing Ground, a two-hour
documentary about Canada's role in the First World War.
McKenna has directed several documentaries
for Life and Times, including Reflections: The Life and Times
of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and The Life and Times of Pope John
Paul II.
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