About the Authors

Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and consultant and the author of Documentary Storytelling, a best selling guide to story and structure in nonfiction filmmaking. She has played a leading role in creating, developing, and producing projects for national and international broadcast, theatrical release, and museum and classroom use. Her archival film credits include the series Eyes on the Prize, I’ll Make Me a World, This Far By Faith, America’s War on Poverty, and School, for which she also co-wrote the companion book. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has taught at Princeton University, Westbrook College and elsewhere. In the fall of 2008, she joined the faculty of the University at Albany, where she holds a joint appointment as Director of Media Programs at the New York State Writers Institute and Associate Director of the University’s Documentary Studies Program. See her blog: http://docustory.blogspot.com.

Kenn Rabin is an internationally recognized expert on the use of archival materials in film storytelling. His credits include the dramatic features Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant; Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by George Clooney; and The Good German, directed by Steven Soderbergh, in addition to a number of acclaimed archival television series, including the 13-hour Vietnam: A Television History and the 14-hour Eyes on the Prize, for which he was nominated for an Emmy. Kenn teaches workshops throughout the country on dramatic storytelling, archival research, and rights negotiation and licensing, and has been an invited speaker at the Miami Film Festival, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, New York Women in Film and Television, and numerous other scholarly, professional, and public organizations. He has taught at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University. His web address is www.fulcrummediaservices.com. [photo: John Sarran]