Ark Media: a documentary film company

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.

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. Bgoodman4@mac.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 since 1995. Among her many films for FRONTLINE are: "The Lost Children of Rockdale County," "Merchants of Cool," "The Persuaders," "Failure to Protect" and "Growing Up Online." Dretzin 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. Currently. she is directing and producing "Digital Nation," a major documentary and multimedia FRONTLINE website about life in the digital age. She and Barak Goodman live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with their three children. Rdretzin@gmail.com

John Maggio (Producer/Director, Writer)
		Filmmaker John Maggio has produced, directed and written award-winning feature documentaries mostly for PBS including the critically acclaimed films The Fight, Kinsey, The Boy in the Bubble and The Lobotomist for the series American Experience. Maggio's work, which has been honored with the National Emmy Award, Writer's Guild Award, Cine Golden Eagle and an Independent Spirit Award nomination, has screened at nearly every major film festival around the world. He's just finished producing and directing a two-hour special Looking for Lincoln, a fascinating new take on our 16th President, scheduled to air on PBS in February 2009. Maggio lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two young sons.
Muriel Soenens (Producer/Director)
Caitlin McNally (Co-Producer)
		Caitlin McNally has worked on films at Ark Media mostly for PBS’s FRONTLINE, including A Hidden Life and Growing Up Online. Currently, she is co-producing Ark’s new film and website for FRONTLINE called Digital Nation. Caitlin wrote, co-produced and edited Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47, a film about China’s involvement in the African gun trade, for FRONTLINE/World. She also worked on Rory Kennedy's Emmy award-winning HBO documentary, The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. Caitlin recently produced a short documentary about an oil boom in North Dakota, and her material features regularly on the WNYC/PRI public radio program, The Takeaway. She lives in Clinton Hill, 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.
Jamila Ephron (Associate Producer)
		Jamila Ephron came to Ark Media in 2007 to work as associate producer on The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Currently, she is associate producer for Barak Goodman's upcoming special about the My Lai massacre 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 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.