Kevin Tierney is a Irish-Canadianhttp://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Identity+especially+Quebec+always+balancing/4136742/story.html film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 from Montreal who earned a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture

Genie Award for Best Motion Picture

The Genie Award for Best Motion Picture is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian motion picture.-1st Genie Awards:*The Changeling *Cordélia...

 for the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about an Ontarian and a Québécois police officer who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French...

, for which he also wrote the script. He has also produced other titles including One Dead Indian

One Dead Indian

One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis is a book by Canadian investigative journalist Peter Edwards about the 1995 Ipperwash Crisis and the shooting death of aboriginal land claims protester Dudley George by the Ontario Provincial Police on September 7, 1995...

, Good Neighbours

Good Neighbours

Good Neighbors is a 2010 Canadian black comedy-drama/thriller film which was written and directed by Jacob Tierney. It is based on the book by Chrystine Brouillet.-Plot:...

and Twist

Twist (film)

Twist is a 2003 Canadian drama film and a queer retelling of Charles Dickens' classic, Oliver Twist.-Plot:The plot is updated to the present day, and moved out of the London poor house onto the streets of Toronto. In addition, the tale is told not from Oliver's point of view, but rather that of Dodge...

. He is the father of Canadian actor and director Jacob Tierney

Jacob Tierney

Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.Tierney was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of veteran producer Kevin Tierney...

. His directorial debut is French Immersion

French immersion

French immersion is a form of bilingual education in which a child who does not speak French as his or her first language receives instruction in school in French...

. He attended the McGill faculty of Education in 1973 and taught abroad and in Montreal for 12 years.

External links

• French Immersion (2011) (dir. Kevin Tierney)
• Facebook Page for French Immersion
• Official Facebook Page for Bon Cop, Bad Cop
• Facebook Page for Good Neighbours
• Website for French Immersion