Lynn Novick

Lynn Novick, director-producer, has been a close collaborator of Ken Burns for 25 years and has co-directed/produced more than 60 hours of critically acclaimed documentary films and series with him. Novick, Burns, and producer Sarah Botstein are currently working on a series about the Vietnam War due out in 2017.  She formed Skiff Mountain Films to produce socially relevant documentaries on contemporary issues. Her first such project, College Behind Bars, explores the personal and intellectual transformation of a group of incarcerated men and women in an unusual liberal arts program: the Bard Prison Initiative. Sarah Botstein is producer, Ken Burns executive-producer.