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Ark Media is an independent
documentary film production company located in Brooklyn, NY. Ark was founded by Barak
Goodman and Rachel Dretzin. We produce historical, cultural and public
affairs documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE and American
Experience, as well as cable outlets like The History Channel and AMC.
In the last few years, Ark films have been nominated for an Academy
Award and won the National Emmy, a Dupont-Columbia, an RFK Journalism,
a Peabody, and a Writers Guild Award.
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Barak Goodman |
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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.
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Rachel Dretzin |
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Executive Producer, Producer/Director, Writer
Rachel Dretzin is co-founder of Ark Media and a principal producer, director, and writer with the company. Currently, she is senior producing the ten-part PBS Series Finding Your Roots hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which premiered in the spring of 2012, as well as the upcoming African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a six-part series to be broadcast on PBS in fall 2013. Among the many films she has produced and directed for PBS' FRONTLINE are: Football High, Digital Nation, Growing Up Online, Failure to Protect, The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool, The Lost Children of Rockdale County, and Hillary's Class. Dretzin's films have won the Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize, the Columbia DuPont Award, and been nominated for the Emmy Award. She has also produced for WNET New York, MSNBC's Edgewise, and NPR's "All Things Considered," as well as the NY Times Magazine on the Web.
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John Maggio |
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Producer/Director, Writer
Filmmaker
John Maggio's work appears regularly on both of PBS's premier series: FRONTLINE
and American Experience, including Kinsey, Billy the Kid, College Inc. and The Private
Life of Bradley Manning. Maggio's films have been honored with the National Emmy
Award, Writers Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award nomination as well
as multiple News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations. His work has
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has screened at festivals around the
world. He's currently in production on the four-part PBS series Italian Americans.
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Chris Durrance |
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Producer/Director, Writer
Chris Durrance is a documentary filmmaker, who has worked on more than a dozen
films for PBS FRONTLINE, including College Inc. about for-profit education,
The Madoff Affair and Return of the Taliban. He has worked all over the world,
including Europe, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and China and is the winner of a Peabody,
two Emmys, a duPont-Columbia silver baton and an Overseas Press Club award.
His most recent project was working with Barak Goodman on Clinton a
four-hour presidential biography for PBS American Experience, which airs in February 2012.
Chris lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Muriel
Soenens |
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Producer/Director
Muriel Soenens is a producer and director of feature documentary films.
Her work has mainly been for PBS and include FRONTLINE'S Failure to Protect (winner of the Dupont-Columbia award and RFK Journalism Prize),
The Persuaders, A Hidden Life, and Pope John Paul II: The Millennial Pope;
BILL MOYER'S NOW Global Woman and Poverty; and American Masters' Alfred Stieglitz and Richard Avedon.
She also made AMC's Precinct Hollywood, a history of the American cop film genre.
Most recently she directed and produced the PBS two-hour special Looking for Lincoln
with host Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Currently, she is developing a film on federal
and corporate whistleblowers. Muriel lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
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Caitlin McNally |
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Producer/Director
Caitlin has been with Ark Media since 2005. She produced Football High,
a film on the new face of high school football for PBS-FRONTLINE and is currently
a producer on the upcoming PBS series Finding Your Roots. She co-produced
Digital Nation (2010), a major PBS-FRONTLINE
documentary and web report about life in the digital age. Her other credits for
FRONTLINE include Growing Up Online (2008),
A Hidden Life (2006) and
Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47 (2007),
a film about China's involvement in the African gun trade for FRONTLINE/World,
which she co-wrote, co-produced and edited. Caitlin also associate produced
Rory Kennedy's Emmy award-winning HBO documentary,
The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007),
and has produced video for the WNYC/PRI public radio program, The Takeaway.
She lives in Brooklyn.
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Julie Marchesi |
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Producer
Julia Marchesi has been at Ark since 2008 as an associate producer on the
Faces of America series and Billy the Kid for American Experience. Before Ark she worked on several family history programs hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
including African American Lives and African American Lives 2. Most recently for Ark she is producing one hour of the ten-part series Finding Your Roots. She is from Connecticut, lives in Brooklyn, and is only half Italian.
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Jamila Ephron |
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Co-Producer
Jamila Ephron came to Ark Media in 2007 to
work as associate producer on The Assassination of Abraham
Lincoln. She was co-producer and associate producer respectively for Barak Goodman's
upcoming special about Bill Clinton and recently the My Lai massacre, both for American Experience.
Prior to joining Ark, she worked on Helen Whitney's The Mormons, a
four-hour co-production for American Experience and FRONTLINE. A
Seattle native and alumna of Sarah Lawrence College, Jamila lives in
Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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R.A. Fedde |
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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 most recently Digital Nation and
Looking for Lincoln for Ark Media. S
he 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.
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