Jeff B. Harmon (born December 31, 1953) is an American film director,
writer, and producer. He is also an actor, photographer, and song
writer.As a journalist and war correspondent, he penetrated the Nazi
underground in Paraguay while searching for Dr. Josef Mengele,
right-wing paramilitary squads in El Salvador, covered Emperor
Bokassa's coronation, the fall of Idi Amin, the war in Afghanistan
(from both the Mujahideen and Soviet sides), and Saddam Hussein's
Iraq.Working as an independent filmmaker together with British
cameraman, Alexander Lindsay, in 1989 Harmon completed his Afghan
Trilogy, which included the documentaries Jihad: Afghanistan's Holy
War, which won a Royal Television Society award and an ACE award,
Afgan and Warlord of Kayan.Jihad took over one year to make and was
filmed clandestinely in different provinces of Afghanistan, including
in Kunar and Kandahar. It showed combat and daily life under Soviet
occupation, as seen through the eyes of Haji Adbul Latif, the 'Lion of
Kandahar' and his Mujahideen fighters. Jihad won various awards
including the prestigious Royal Television Journalism Award, the ACE
Award (the highest award in US cable television), the Blue Ribbon at
the American Film & Video Festival, and CINE's Golden Eagle. Critics
called the documentary an 'instructive, pithy, not boring and an
important piece of journalism that the American public and
decision-makers should view'.
writer, and producer. He is also an actor, photographer, and song
writer.As a journalist and war correspondent, he penetrated the Nazi
underground in Paraguay while searching for Dr. Josef Mengele,
right-wing paramilitary squads in El Salvador, covered Emperor
Bokassa's coronation, the fall of Idi Amin, the war in Afghanistan
(from both the Mujahideen and Soviet sides), and Saddam Hussein's
Iraq.Working as an independent filmmaker together with British
cameraman, Alexander Lindsay, in 1989 Harmon completed his Afghan
Trilogy, which included the documentaries Jihad: Afghanistan's Holy
War, which won a Royal Television Society award and an ACE award,
Afgan and Warlord of Kayan.Jihad took over one year to make and was
filmed clandestinely in different provinces of Afghanistan, including
in Kunar and Kandahar. It showed combat and daily life under Soviet
occupation, as seen through the eyes of Haji Adbul Latif, the 'Lion of
Kandahar' and his Mujahideen fighters. Jihad won various awards
including the prestigious Royal Television Journalism Award, the ACE
Award (the highest award in US cable television), the Blue Ribbon at
the American Film & Video Festival, and CINE's Golden Eagle. Critics
called the documentary an 'instructive, pithy, not boring and an
important piece of journalism that the American public and
decision-makers should view'.
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