JOHN KETCHAM (Producer) began work on The Hurricane nine years ago. Concurrently, he oversaw the development of: two television movies for NBC, Holding on to Love and Sleepwalker; and wrote and directed Concerto, as one of the winners of the UCLA short fiction film program. He also wrote and sold an original feature script entitled, Finders/ Keepers. Before moving to Los Angeles, Ketcham had been a reporter and freelance producer in his native Canada. His first documentary Life Sentence, which won a Canadian documentary award, recounted the struggle of an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, held captive in the former Soviet Union. Ketcham currently resides in Los Angeles.