Lynn Novick

Lynn Novick is one of the most renowned and respected documentary filmmakers and story tellers in America. For more than 30 years she has been directing and producing landmark documentary films for PBS about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music. In collaboration with Ken Burns, she has created more than 80 hours of acclaimed programming including The Vietnam War, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, The War, and Prohibition. Novick has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards. Lynn's most recent production -- her first as solo director -- is College Behind Bars, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and aired on PBS in 2019. Produced by Sarah Botstein, the series explores urgently contemporary and timeless questions - What is prison for? Who in America has access to educational opportunity? Six years in the making, the series immerses viewers in the inspiring and transformational journey of a small gro