Barak Goodman
(Executive Producer, Producer/Director, Writer)

Barak Goodman is co-founder of Ark Media and a principal producer, director, and writer with the company. His films for Ark Media have been nominated for an Academy Award and won multiple Emmys and Writers Guild Awards, the DuPont-Columbia, and Peabody Awards, the RFK Journalism Prize, and twice been official selections at the Sundance Film Festival.

Barakgood4@gmail.com

Rachel Dretzin
(Executive Producer, Producer/Director, Writer)

Rachel Dretzin is co-founder of Ark Media and a principal producer, director, and writer with the company. She has been producing and directing films for PBS' Frontline for over a decade. Dretzin has also produced for WNET New York, MSNBC's Edgewise, AMC Movie Classics, and NPR's "All Things Considered". Most recently, she directed a short film, "Naked" for the New York Times Magazine on the web. She and Barak Goodman live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with their three children, Noah, Jesse and Ruby.

Rdretzin@earthlink.net

John Maggio
(Producer/Director)

Together with Barak Goodman, John Maggio has produced, directed and written award winning films, mostly for PBS' acclaimed series American Experience. Most recently, Maggio and Goodman teamed up to make The Lobotomist, the tragic tale of the megalomaniac doctor Walter Freeman and his crusade to cure madness. In 2006 he wrote and directed Einstein's Letter for the History Channel's Emmy Award winning event Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America. Maggio's films have screened at nearly every major film festival around the world. In 2004 he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for the feature film Virgil Bliss. He is also an accomplished musician, co-producing and co-writing Venus Loves a Melody, an album of songs featuring Cody Chesnutt for Walt Disney's Hollywood Records. Maggio lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two young sons.

Jpmaggio@nyc.rr.com

Muriel Soenens
(Producer/Director)

Caitlin McNally
(Associate Producer)

Caitlin McNally joined Ark Media in 2005. She associate produced A Hidden Life and Growing Up Online, both for PBS's FRONTLINE. In 2007, she worked on Rachel Dretzin's short film 'Naked' for The New York Times Magazine website. Caitlin also worked as an associate producer for Rory Kennedy's HBO documentary "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," the 2007 Primetime Emmy award winner and an official selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Caitlin wrote, co-produced and edited Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47, a short film about China's involvement in Africa for FRONTLINE/World. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Konstantinos Kambouroglou
(Associate Producer)

Konstantinos Kambouroglou joined Ark Media in 2007, after leading the archival research team on Helen Whitney's 'The Mormons' for PBS Frontline/American Experience. He previously worked on 'Key Constitutional Concepts,' an award-winning educational film by Peter Jennings' Documentary Group. Before focusing exclusively on documentaries, Kambouroglou produced investigative segments for various Greek newsmagazines, as well as interstitial programming for the Athens 2004 Olympics organizers. He was trained as a broadcast journalist at Columbia University and lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.

Kristina Cafarella
(Associate Producer)

Kristina joined ARK Media in the fall of 2007 as an Associate Producer for the PBS/American Experience documentary, Death of Lincoln. Since beginning her doc career in 2001, Kristina has worked with a number of esteemed producers on a variety of historical films, including the Emmy award-winning The Pill and Slavery and the Making of America (both for PBS) and the highly-rated History Channel series, The Revolution, for which she co-wrote one of the hours. She is currently also working on a side project, a film about a diverse New Orleans neighborhood's continued fight to rebuild post-Katrina. When she's not out in the field chasing reenactors, Kristina is helping coach runners through Team in Training and Nike, and training for the Chicago Marathon. She's also trying to get back to her piano lessons.

Ben Robbins
(Associate Producer)

Ben Robbins joined Ark Media in 2008. Prior to Ark, Ben produced and wrote Banff-nominated A&E Biographies of Bob Dylan and Eugene O'Neill, in addition to reality television about homicide detectives, assorted investigative and health shows, and segments of the now-defunct PBS show, "Media Matters." As a screenwriter, Ben has been a fellow of the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony and an invitee to the Berlinale Talent Campus. Like most of his co-workers, he lives in Brooklyn.

Jamila Ephron
(Associate Producer)

Jamila Ephron came to Ark Media in 2007 after working as a production associate on Helen Whitney's "The Mormons," a four-hour American Experience and Frontline co-production. She worked as a production assistant on Growing Up Online for Ark Media and is currently an associate producer for the upcoming American Experience special on the death of Abraham Lincoln. A Seattle native and alumna of Sarah Lawrence College, Jamila lives in Astoria, Queens.

R.A. Fedde
(Editor)

Since escaping a successful Silicon Valley career in 2001, Fedde has edited everything from wild horses to Marilyn Manson. Her work includes "10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America: Antietam" and "Combat Diary", which was nominated for a 2006 Emmy. She has worked on numerous PBS shows, including A Hidden Life and The Lobotomist for Ark Media. She also co-owns the Brooklyn Fencing Center, Brooklyn's first Olympic-style fencing club. An alumna of the Rhode Island School of Design, she lives in Brooklyn.