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Keir Pearson (born December 15, 1966) is an American Academy Award-nominated screenwriter notable for the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Career. Pearson graduated from Harvard University in 1989. During the 1990s, he also participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics with the American rowing team.
For screenwriter Keir Pearson ’89, success and social consciousness have gone hand in hand. His first script, Hotel Rwanda, co-written with Terry George, was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay. What’s more, Pearson is responsible for bringing a story that desperately needed to be told back to public attention in a ...
May 13, 2021 · Keir Pearson, of Irvine, California, an athlete in the sport of rowing, has accepted a lifetime period of ineligibility for anti-doping rule violations.
SIDELIGHTS: Screenwriter Keir Pearson is the writer, with director Terry George, of the acclaimed 2004 motion picture Hotel Rwanda. The film tells its story against the backdrop of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by marauding Hutus, leaving a death toll so large that the bodies of the dead blocked Lake Victoria .
Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 docudrama film co-written and directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay by George and Keir Pearson, and stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana.
Keir Pearson, (born 1966) is an American Academy Award nominated screenwriter notable for the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda; and a former Olympic rower. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keir Pearson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jan 27, 2005 · Now, in the only official companion book, comes the fascinating filmmaking story, with first-person pieces by Terry George and co-screenwriter Keir Pearson about their three-year struggle to gain support and financing, as well as a brief history of Rwanda with details on the actual events portrayed in the movie.
- Paperback
- Terry George, Keir Pearson
