LYNN NOVICK 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. The 92 hours of acclaimed PBS programming she has created in collaboration with Ken Burns include Ernest Hemingway, The Vietnam

DAVID SCHMIDT David Schmidt has spent his entire career with Ken Burns and Florentine Films. After an internship with the company, David quickly signed on to work full-time on the seven-part series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. After four years at the Florentine offices in Walpole, New Hampshire, David moved to New

GEOFFREY C. WARD Geoffrey C. Ward was born in Newark, Ohio, in 1940 and grew up on the south side of Chicago and in New Delhi, India. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962, with a bachelor’s degree in studio art.He was senior picture editor at Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago during

MIKE WELT Mike Welt has been making documentaries for more than 14 years, covering a wide range of topics in American and world history. He began his documentary career at Lucasfilm, where he wrote and directed films about the history of jazz and the early aviation pioneer, Anthony Fokker, and co-wrote