Emmy award winning and Golden Globe nominated producer Ilene Kahn Power was Executive Producer on WHO IS CLARK ROCKEFELLER? for Lifetime Networks’ which aired in March and April of 2010. One of Lifetime’s top rated movies for 2010, it starred Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) as Clark Rockefeller, the German imposter who kidnapped his daughter in 2008 and Sherri Stringfield (ER) as Rockefeller’s wife.
Kahn Power was an Executive Producer on the four hour miniseries for CBS, ELVIS which was filmed in New Orleans and at Graceland. The show captured six Emmy nominationsincluding Outstanding Miniseries. Jonathan Rhys Meyers won the Golden Globe award for Outstanding Actor in a Television or Cable Film or Miniseries for his portrayal of Elvis. Co-stars Camryn Mannheim and Randy Quaid were also nominated for Golden Globes, Emmys and the Satellite Award for their work on the miniseries. Ilene Kahn Power won the Satellite Award from the International Press Academy for Outstanding Television Film or Miniseries.
Ilene Kahn Power was Executive Producer on the acclaimed GIA for HBO the tragic story of the supermodel starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, and Faye Dunaway, The film received three Golden Globe Awards, six Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Motion Picture For Television. She was also nominated by the Producers Guild of Americafor the Laurel Award as Outstanding Producer for long-form television for her work on the film.
In January 2006, Ilene Kahn Power was a producer on USA Networks' TRAFFIC, the critically praised six-hour mini-series was directed by Stephen Hopkins and Eric Bross and written by Ron Hutchinson. It received five Emmy nominations. That year, she also produced THE DEAD HOLLYWOOD WIVES SOCIETY for Hallmark, based on Lindsay Maracotta’s book of the same title.
Kahn Power was instrumental in the establishing of HBO Films as the potent force it has become today. In the mid 90's She left her executive post as Vice President HBO Films to form her own company, KAHN POWER PICTURES, and produced the award winning STALIN for HBO in Moscow. Starring Robert Duvall and Julia Ormand, the film received three Golden Globe Awards as well as three CableACE Awards, and was nominated for ten Emmy Awards, of which it won four, including Outstanding Motion Picture For Television.
In her twelve years as Vice President of HBO Films, Kahn Power supervised the development and production of over sixty films. In l996 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 andMartin Sheen for Showtime; WHITE MILE starring Alan Alda , Peter Gallagher and Robert Loggia for HBO; and FATHERLAND starring Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson forHBO. In 1998 she was also Executive Producer on BUFFALO SOLDIERS, starring Danny Glover for Turner Network Television.
In 2003 Executive Producer Kahn Power's film THEY CALL ME SIRR the Sirr Parker Story which stars 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 member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Producers Guild of America, and is a Trustee of the Women In Film Foundation where she chairs and produces The Legacy Series, a series of visual histories of trailblazing women in the motion picture and television industry. She was Jury Chair of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, for nine years and was an adjunct professor in media department at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
A native of Chicago, she is a graduate of Northwestern University and has completed graduate work at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has three sons, Jeremy, Adam, and Oliver, and resides in Los Angeles with her husband, personal manager Derek Power, with whom she is partnered in Kahn Power Pictures.
Television Credits
- 2010 "Who Is Clark Rockefeller" (TV) (executive producer)
- 2005 "Elvis" (mini) TV Series (co-executive producer)
- 2004 "Traffic" (mini) TV Series (consulting producer)
- 2004 "The Hollywood Mom's Mystery" (TV) (executive producer)
- 2003 "Open House" (TV) (supervising producer)
- 2001 "They Call Me Sirr" (TV) (executive producer)
- 1998 "Gia" (TV) (executive producer)
- 1997 "Buffalo Soldiers" (TV) (co-executive producer)
- 1994 "White Mile" (TV) (co-executive producer)
- 1994 "Roswell" (TV) (producer)
- 1994 "Fatherland" (TV) (producer)
- 1992 "Stalin" (TV) (executive producer)
- 1981 "The Princess and the Cabbie" (TV) (producer)