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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.
Though he single-handedly saved the lives of more than 1,200 people during the hell that was the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the world did not know his name — until filmmaker Terry George told his story...
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 .
May 13, 2021 · USADA announced today that Keir Pearson, of Irvine, California, an athlete in the sport of rowing, has accepted a lifetime period of ineligibility for anti-doping rule violations involving his possession and/or use of a prohibited substance, as well as the administration of that prohibited substance to another athlete without their knowledge.
Reece Pearson, head of production and development for Flame Ventures, will executive produce with Origin Entertainment CEO Dick Lyles, while the Mother Teresa Center will serve as a technical...
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.
