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Welcome to Fulcrum Media Services! |
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photo: John Sarran |
Two time Emmy™ nominee and award-winning playwright, screenwriter, audiovisual researcher and archivist KENN RABIN provides a wide range of services for your documentary, fiction film, proposal, manuscript, or educational project. From the writing and funding stage, through pre-production and production, Kenn brings more than 25 years' experience to his clients. And as a film and photography instructor, he brings real-world experience into the classroom, and his passion for his work to his students. |
Click these links to his Client List and
his Production
Credits to see the
wide variety of feature films, television, and multimedia he has worked
on, including the recent multi-award winning feature GOOD
NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, for which he won the 2006 FOCAL International Award for Best Use of Archival Footage in a
Feature Film. And
click
this link to see his own play
productions, short story publications and awards for theatre,
screenwriting and prose (including a new
commission with Marin Theatre Company). You can also see a partial credit list
on: 
Kenn is a member of FOCAL, the Dramatists Guild, Theatre Bay Area, the Playwrights Lab, TCG, and various other film and theater organizations. He serves on the advisory committee for Film Night in the Park. He has also been a member of the International Documentary Association, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the International Film Group, and the American Film Institute. |
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| Kenn is the co-author of a new book on archival research, with Sheila Curran Bernard. CLICK HERE for more information!! |  |
Archival
Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing
Third-Party Visuals and Music is scheduled to be released in
October, 2008 by Focal Press/Elsevier.
Co-authored by Kenn Rabin and Documentary Storytelling writer Sheila Curran Bernard, Archival Storytelling contains everything you need to know about where to find the footage you need, how various filmmakers use archival in their work, what the ethics of using certain types of archival are in certain contexts, and how to survive the maze of clearances, copyright, fair use, underlying rights, guild clearances, and more. |
| Kenn provides manuscript consulting services to documentary film, script and screenplay writers, as well as prose writers who are taking their work to the next draft, and documentary producers who are preparing treatments and grant proposals. He also works with novelists and short story writers. Kenn can work with you to sharpen your characters, dialogue, structure, and vision -- so that your script, manuscript, or treatment reads like a "vivid and continuous dream," the way all good fiction and all good movies must, in order to engage an audience and be successful. Click here to see the productions, publications and awards his own authored work has garnished. |
| His international reputation for audiovisual research of the highest caliber comes from over two and a half decades of involvement in many of the best historical documentaries on public television, (such as EYES ON THE PRIZE, VIETNAM: A TELEVISION HISTORY, THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and many others), cable, and in feature release as well as multimedia products for a wide variety of markets and commercial clients. |
| His expertise in negotiating and licensing rights for film and video clips, still photos, artwork, text, and music can help you overcome the hurdles to including pre-existing content in your programming. |
| And Kenn leads a variety of workshops around the country, teaching writers, producers, and documentary filmmakers a wide variety of skills in entertaining one- and two-day formats. He has taught at the Maine Film & Video Workshops, Boston Film/Video Foundation, Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, and many other venues, and has been an invited speaker at the Miami Film Festival, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, NY Women in Film and Television, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and at countless other scholarly, professional, and public organizations. He was also a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University, University of California. |
| Please tour our web site, and then email us at fulcrum-at-fulcrummediaservices-dot-com (please replace the "at" and "dot" with "@" and ".") to see how FULCRUM MEDIA SERVICES can help make your next project -- whether it's a feature script or documentary -- a success! |