Karl R. Hearne

Karl Raudsepp Hearne is a film director and screenwriter, whose feature directorial debut Touched premiered on the film festival circuit in 2017 before being released theatrically in 2018.[1]

Karl R. Hearne

Raised in Montreal and Dublin, Ireland, he studied at McGill University before pursuing a doctorate at Nanjing University.[2] He later returned to Montreal, where he spent a year studying film at Concordia University.[3]

His short film Song, a Chinese ghost story with dialogue predominantly in Mandarin, received the Prix Fasken-Martineau in 2003,[4] and received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 5th Jutra Awards.[5]

Following his 2007 short film Stuff, he took some time away from film to help a friend start a business, but found that he was wrapped up in that business for much longer than he had planned to be.[1] When he decided to return to film in the mid-2010s, he quickly secured funding from Telefilm Canada to make Touched.[1]

Touched was nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[6]

Filmography
  • Lonania (2002)[3]
  • Song (2002)
  • Men on a Lake (2006)
  • Monday Night (2006)
  • Stuff (2007)
  • Touched (2017)

References
  1. Bill Brownstein, "Montreal filmmaker takes long route to feature film directorial debut". Montreal Gazette, September 27, 2018.
  2. "Local boy makes good". Montreal Gazette, August 31, 2002.
  3. "Film students prove that their art matters". The Concordian, March 13, 2002.
  4. "SilenceOnCourt online winners". Playback, July 7, 2003.
  5. "Seraphin leads with 9 Jutra nominations". Montreal Gazette, January 29, 2003.
  6. "Touched". Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, February 7, 2019.


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