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Hegan, Ken
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Dates of existence
fl. 1990s-
History
Ken Hegan is a screenwriter, director, copywriter, and journalist known for The Hour (2004), Heart of Whistler (2006), and Farley Mowat Ate My Brother (1995). Originally from Kamloops, BC, he holds a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Sociology and a minor in Psychology from the University of Victoria. From 2000 to 2006 he was an instructor at the Vancouver Film School. Since, he has worked as a moderator for the Whistler Film Festival, a story editor for CityTV, a screenwriter and producer for TV Made Me Do It, a screenwriter for CBC's The Hour with George Stromboulopolis, a director on Til Debt Do Us Part, a screenwriter for From Rags to Red Carpet, director of the Crazy For Love series, screenwriter for the Superbodies series for CTV's coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games and 2012 London Summer Olympic Games, a copywriter and content strategist for Tribal Worldwide and Blast Radius, a journalist for Vancouver Magazine and Toro Magazine, a travel writer for MSN and the National Post, a host of the Celluloid Social Club and the Crazy8s Film Society Gala, commercial writer for Outland Living, content creator for Jimmy Kimmel Live's Christmas show, a writer on IRL Podcast, a writer for the Netflix-watching software Wiretap, a screenwriter in residence at the Vancouver Public Library, a copywriter for Lululemon and Finn AI, a senior copywriter for TELUS, a screenwriter in residence for Thompson-Nicola Regional Library in Kamloops, a screenwriter for Snack (a Gen-Z dating app), and a senior copywriter for BCAA. He is currently writing an producing a new feature film, Outrunners, and a comedy series, Brewed.
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Kamloops, BC
Victoria, BC
Vancouver
Toronto, ON
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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Catalogued October 2022.