Ilene Kahn Power is an Emmy Award winning and multiple Golden Globe nominated producer of movies and miniseries such as GIA starring Angelina Jolie, Roswell starring Martin Sheen, Who Is Clark Rockefeller? starring Eric McCormack, Stalin, for HBO, starring Robert Duvall and Julia Ormand for which she won the Emmy as Outstanding Motion Picture for Television, White Mile starring Alan Alda, for HBO, Elvis, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers for CBS, Traffic, the miniseries for USA, Fatherland for HBO and Buffalo Soldiers for TNT starring Danny Glover. Kahn Power had the distinction of being the only producer in history to have three out of five films nominated as Best Motion Picture for Television for the Golden Globe Awards: ROSWELL, starring Kyle Maclachlan and Martin Sheen for Showtime; WHITE MILE starring Alan Alda for HBO, Peter Gallagher and Robert Loggia for HBO and FATHERLAND starring Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson for HBO. She is the Executive Producer of the Lifetime film, Romeo Killer, starring Eric McCormack and Matt Barr, Romeo Killer for A&E, and is Executive Producer on the recent award winning documentary feature Remote Area Medical directed by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman which played theatrically in 12 cities in December of 2016. She was also Executive Producer on BUFFALO SOLDIERS, starring Danny Glover for Turner Network Television. Her film THEY CALL ME SIRR which starred Academy Award nominee Michael Clarke Duncan (“The Green Mile”) for Showtime was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Children’s Special. Kahn Power is a former Vice President of HBO Films where she developed and oversaw the production of over sixty films including Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, and Josephine Baker and Citizen X. She and her husband Derek Power are principals of Kahn Power Pictures a production and management company. She chairs and produces WIF’s Legacy Series and is member of Northwestern University’s C100 a select group of alumna from many professions which mentors young female graduates.
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