Ark Media is a documentary film company founded in 1997 by the producing team of Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin.

Ark produces films primarily for the PBS series FRONTLINE and American Experience, and also for cable outlets such as The History Channel and American Movie Classics. Over the last half-dozen years, Ark films have won nearly every major broadcast award: the Emmy, DuPont-Columbia, Robert F. Kennedy, Writers Guild and Peabody, as well as earning an Academy Award nomination, and official selection to the Sundance Film Festival.

Ark Media has MOVED! Please note our new address:
540 State Street
Brooklyn NY 11217
(718) 935-9745

Ark Media is currently at work on two projects related to the 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. One film, for PBS's American Experience, traces Lincoln's assassination and the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth. The other, produced in conjunction with WNET and Kunhardt Productions, is a contemporary look at Lincoln's legacy across the country, and a conversation about what the myth of Lincoln means today. Both films will broadcast on PBS in 2009 - stay tuned for details. 

In the summer of 2008, Ark Media will begin developing another film for PBS's FRONTLINE that will dig deeper into the digital revolution.

January 2008 saw an Ark double feature. The Lobotomist aired on January 21 on American Experience -- you can watch the program and read more here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/. Growing Up Online aired on January 22 on FRONTLINE, and is available online here:   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

Ark Media's film "The Boy in the Bubble" was nominated for an Emmy Award for best science and nature documentary in 2007.

In 2007, the short documentary 'Naked,' directed by Rachel Dretzin, was posted to the New York Times Magazine website. Appearing in conjunction with a feature on baby boomers in Sunday's Magazine, 'Naked' looks candidly at sex and aging in the middle years through interviews with 10 very different people. You can still see the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-l4r1Jxcc. 
Naked is nominated for a 2008 Webby award, in the Drama: Individual Episode category: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97&season=12#film_doc_ind_ep