Harvey has been a director, writer, and producer of documentary, drama and docu-drama for more than 25 years. He holds dual Canadian and Irish citizenship and is able to travel and work on both a Canadian and an EU passport.
Harvey began his film and television career in Vancouver, Canada where he co-founded two production companies - Hy Perspectives Media Group and Siren Films - that made independent films about social issues including legislative discrimination against Native Indian women, healing alcohol and drug abuse in Native Indian communities, remarkable breakthroughs in the lives of quadriplegics, and issues facing new immigrants.
His production of the feature docudrama CLOSE TO HOME, about the continuum of sexual abuse, runaways and juvenile prostitution, became a nationally acclaimed Movie Of The Week.
Harvey has directed nominated and award-winning documentary and docudrama features and series, episodic drama and family comedy series for National Geographic, History, Discovery, CBC, CTV, CITY, A&E, PBS, BBC, ALIBI, W, ITV, Vision, TLC, Family Channel, Noggin, Disney, Nickelodeon, Discovery Health, Fox Kids, YTV, Canal Plus, Canal J, ZDF, France 3, ABC Australia and many more networks.
Shoots have taken Harvey across Canada, into the Arctic and around the world to Brazil, Thailand, Okinawa, South Africa, Japan, India, France, England, United States, Holland, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Belgium, Turkey, Cuba, Hong Kong, Argentina, Russia, Estonia and Ukraine.
After the release of his feature film, THE BURNING SEASON, which he wrote, directed and filmed in Canada and India, Harvey moved to Toronto, Canada in 1993.