The LitFilm Keynote Conversation: Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein
Renowned filmmakers Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein present the LitFilm 2021 keynote conversation on making literary subjects literary, on filmmaking partnerships and more.
Lynn Novick has been directing and producing landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. Her 4 part series, College Behind Bars, aired on PBS in 2019. The 80 hours of acclaimed PBS programming she has created in collaboration with Ken Burns include The Vietnam War, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, The War, and Prohibition – these landmark series have garnered 19 Emmy nominations. One of the most respected documentary filmmakers and story tellers in America, Novick herself has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards.
Sarah Botstein has been producing award-winning documentaries at Florentine Films since 1997. She recently produced The Vietnam War, co-directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, an immersive, 10-part, 18-hour epic about of one of the most divisive and consequential events in American history. It will air on PBS beginning September 17, 2017.
Novick and Bostein's latest work with Burns is Hemingway, a three-part documentary. The first part will screen before the keynote. To see the full LitFilm 2021 roster, please go here.
*Registered audience members will receive a streaming link and additional instructions prior to the program date.
LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Renowned filmmakers Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein present the LitFilm 2021 keynote conversation on making literary subjects literary, on filmmaking partnerships and more.
Lynn Novick has been directing and producing landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. Her 4 part series, College Behind Bars, aired on PBS in 2019. The 80 hours of acclaimed PBS programming she has created in collaboration with Ken Burns include The Vietnam War, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, The War, and Prohibition – these landmark series have garnered 19 Emmy nominations. One of the most respected documentary filmmakers and story tellers in America, Novick herself has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards.
Sarah Botstein has been producing award-winning documentaries at Florentine Films since 1997. She recently produced The Vietnam War, co-directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, an immersive, 10-part, 18-hour epic about of one of the most divisive and consequential events in American history. It will air on PBS beginning September 17, 2017.
Novick and Bostein's latest work with Burns is Hemingway, a three-part documentary. The first part will screen before the keynote. To see the full LitFilm 2021 roster, please go here.
*Registered audience members will receive a streaming link and additional instructions prior to the program date.
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