Kenn Rabin

Kenn Rabin is a two-time Emmy Award-nominated producer, consulting producer, writer and archival researcher and an internationally-recognized expert on the use of archival materials in film storytelling. His dramatic feature credits include "Milk" (directed by Gus Van Sant); "Good Night, and Good Luck" (George Clooney); "Selma" (Ava Du Vernay); "The Good German" (Steven Soderbergh) and the 2020 Amazon Studios film "Troop Zero" (Bert and Bertie). Feature documentaries include "The Fog of War" (Errol Morris), "Obit."(Vanessa Gould); "An Inconvenient Sequel" (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Richard Berge) and "Inequality for All" (Jake Kornbluth).

He has over 100 documentary television credits, including the landmark 13-hour "Vietnam: A Television History" and the 14-hour "Eyes on the Prize," as well as numerous episodes of PBS's "American Experience," "POV," "Independent Lens" and "American Masters." He produced and wrote, with Raymond Telles, "The Storm that Swept Mexico," PBS's centennial film about the Mexican Revolution, and associate produced and co-wrote Barry Levinson's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" for Disney/Showtime. He continues to consult with independent producers of both narrative fiction and non-fiction.

Kenn teaches workshops throughout the country on dramatic storytelling, archival research, and rights negotiation and licensing, and he has been an invited speaker at the Miami and Seoul Film Festivals, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, New York Women in Film and Television, and numerous other universities, as well as scholarly, professional and public organizations. He has taught at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University, and is the co-author, with Sheila Curran Bernard, of the book "Archival Storytelling." His web address is www.fulcrummediaservices.com.