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.

AIR ACE: Harvey is equally at home in radio. He was the first news director at Detroit's underground radio station, WABX-FM. Later, Harvey moved to WRIF-FM where he became the host of popular weekend talk shows, SPARE CHANGE and NIGHT CALL. Harvey also delivered commentaries on WCSX-FM and hosted HARVEY O ON THE METRO on Detroit's public radio station, WDET-FM. Harvey's comments on media and the movies can occasionally be heard on WWJ. He has consulted with WDET on the station's brand identity, marketing, content development, pledge campaigns, underwriting, and other critical issues facing public service media.

THE FIFTH ESTATE: Harvey started his career as a print journalist. He was only 17 and just out of Mumford High School when he created The Fifth Estate, one of the country's oldest underground newspapers. Harvey also has written for The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Above all, Harvey is a teacher. In addition to mentoring hundreds of interns, he has taught creativity, screenwriting, and documentary filmmaking to both under- and post graduates at Wayne State University. He has been a guest speaker at the University of Michigan, Oakland University, and Schoolcraft College. Harvey also taught writing and video production workshops for adults and children at the Cranbrook Educational Community, the Community House of Birmingham, and the Grosse Pointe War Memorial.

"Mister O," as his students called him, taught screenwriting at University of Detroit Jesuit High School and was on the faculty at the Grosse Pointe Academy for 15 years where he taught creative writing. Harvey has also taught in the Detroit Public Schools as part of Terry Blackhawk's InsideOut program, a literary arts project for students that places professional writers-in-residence at schools.

Harvey also teaches teachers. He has presented his popular "Physual™" (physical + visual) and storytelling workshops to the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), the Association of Independent Michigan Schools, the Macomb County Intermediate School District, the Colorado Language Arts Society, and the National Chapter of Campus Compact.

Harvey's work as an educator and multi-media innovator has been profiled in several books including including "Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll", "The Detroit Almanac", "Motor City Memoirs", "Rockin' Down the Dial", "Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties", "Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press", "Detroit's Powers and Personalities", and "From Soupy to Nuts: A History of Detroit Television."