Lynn Novick

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Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker

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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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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/10/2024.

Lynn Novick Speaking Topics

  • 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.

  • Creating a Team for Confidence

  • The Power of Storytelling

Lynn Novick Videos

  • The US and The Holocaust - Director Lynn Novick Reflects
    The U.S. and the Holocaust, a new documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the...
  • Hemingway | Official Teaser #2 | A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick ...
  • Lynn Novick on 'The Vietnam War'
    Filmmaker Lynn Novick talks about the difficulties of making a documentary about the Vietnam War.

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Lynn Novick is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The US and the Holocaust, Creating a Team for Confidence and The Power of Storytelling. The estimated speaking fee range to book Lynn Novick for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. 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 Van Jones, Ken Burns, Esmeralda Santiago, Diane Guerrero and Reginald Hudlin. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Lynn Novick for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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