Harvey O has a legacy of story telling that trails back better than 50 years, and he is coming to LightStand to shed some light on the whole of the process.

Come out for a LightStand reunion and time of engaging one of the Detroit areas best story tellers.

Collect your questions about writing, production, and the film making process for this free night of opportunity!

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The Wiki of Harvey O

The Detroit News has described producer and story consultant Harvey Ovshinsky as "one of this country's finest storytellers." Harvey's work, which spans the universe of print, broadcast television and radio, digital storytelling, as well as primary, secondary, and university education, began in the turbulent '60s and continues full force today.

FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION: Harvey Ovshinsky and HKO Media have been awarded broadcasting's highest honors including four CINE Golden Eagle Awards, a national Emmy, a Peabody, a duPont - Columbia University Award, an Iris Award from the National Association of Television Programming Executives, and the American Film Institute's Robert M. Bennett Award for Excellence.

In 2004, the Detroit Docs International Film Festival celebrated the life and work of Harvey Ovshinsky, with its first ever Career Achievement Award. "From his early days of radio to later years of television and now documentary film and video," Kerry Burke of Metro Times wrote, "Ovshinsky's career is a colorful and fantastic voyage, at times brave and visionary."

SCREENWRITER: Harvey wrote the Movie-of-the-Week script PJ AND THE DRAGON, represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and optioned to Longbow Productions. He wrote the award-winning, feature-length script THE KEYMAN, as well as the treatment for the children's drama NOAH AND HIS TOTALLY AWESOME ARK. Harvey also wrote the treatment for ALL-AMERICAN GIRL, a Movie-of-the-Week for NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation) and was creative consultant for Longbow Productions' Movie-of-the-Week script SWEET & DARROW. He was a contributor to a chapter on screenwriting in the Film and Video Career Directory published by Gale Research, Inc.