Lynn Novick
Keynote Speaker: Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker on Culture, History, Politics, Sports, Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music
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Lynn Novick Biography
Lynn Novick has been making landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. Since 1994, she has created nearly 100 hours of acclaimed programming for PBS in collaboration with Ken Burns, including The U.S. and the Holocaust, Hemingway, The Vietnam War, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Lloyd Wright, The War, and Prohibition — these landmark series have garnered 19 Emmy nominations. Novick herself has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards.
College Behind Bars, Novick’s debut as solo director, premiered at the New York Film Festival and aired on PBS in 2019. Produced by Sarah Botstein, the four-part verité 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 group of incarcerated men and women serving time for serious crimes, as they try to earn college degrees in one of the most rigorous prison education programs in America. The Education Writers of America honored the series for Best Visual Storytelling: “The commitment and effort the filmmakers took to tell the stories of [men and women] trying to better their lives by obtaining a college degree – and what their stories say about our criminal justice system – is nothing short of incredible….The film does honor to its subjects and the debate over the purpose of education and rehabilitation.”
Novick’s next project as solo director and writer is a multi-part PBS series on the history of crime and punishment in America, slated for release in 2026. Following The U.S. and the Holocaust, she is collaborating with Burns, Botstein and writer Geoffrey C. Ward on a six-hour series on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale with honors in American Studies, and lives in New York City.
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Lynn Novick Speaking Topics
Director Lynn Novick speaks to the themes in the new documentary, The US and the Holocaust, a three-part, six hour series she directed together with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein.
The US and the Holocaust examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a “nation of immigrants,” but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight, as their families tried to escape Hitler, this series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.
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Lynn Novick is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Television & Film, Entertainers, Storytelling, Teamwork & Teambuilding, Inspirational, Culture, Music, Literary, History, Authors, Government, Education and Civil Rights.
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Lynn Novick is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Television & Film, Entertainers and Storytelling. The estimated speaking fee range to book Lynn Novick for live events is $30,000 - $50,000, and for virtual events Below $10,000. Lynn Novick generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Esmeralda Santiago, Yangsze Choo and Laura Ling. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Lynn Novick for an upcoming event.
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Lynn Novick Speaking Topics
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The US and the Holocaust
Director Lynn Novick speaks to the themes in the new documentary, The US and the Holocaust, a three-part, six hour series she directed together with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein.
The US and the Holocaust examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a “nation of immigrants,” but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight, as their families tried to escape Hitler, this series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.
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Creating a Team for Confidence
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The Power of Storytelling
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Lynn Novick Reviews
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Lynn did a great job! Content-wise, the audience was blown away. Someone said they were even close to tears: "moving, thoughtful, eye-opening, meaningful, engaging, focused, intellectually stimulating, powerful." I have seen most of the documentaries more than once (and will watch them again), and Lynn Novick is talented, articulate, and passionate. The Q&A format worked much better than a speaker reading or making a speech. All of it was excellent! We are very appreciative for the time and attention Lynn gave to our event. Our audience was very moved by her work and words --and the Q&A format was highly engaging. We would absolutely welcome the opportunity to work with Lynn again!
NH Humanities Council - Jul 20 2022
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Meet Lynn Novick
The ‘Vietnam War’ co-director has been making movies with Ken Burns for decades. Why is only one of them famous?
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Why The Vietnam War Is Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Most ...
But by 2006, when the filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick were finishing up their World War II documentary series, The War, they felt that the timing was ...
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick preview "The Vietnam War" - Videos ...
The documentary filmmakers' latest project, a 10-part series on the U.S. war in Vietnam, premieres Sunday on PBS.
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War - The New York ...
Americans are still divided over the legacy of the Vietnam War. Can Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 18-hour documentary help put the demons of that era — and ...
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick directed 'The Vietnam War' together ...
Above: Lynn Novick interviews Duong Van Mai Elliott, who grew up in Vietnam and worked for the RAND Corp. interviewing captured Viet Cong fighters.
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