About KennKenn Rabin, a two-time Emmy Award nominee, is a consulting producer and an internationally-recognized expert on the use of archival materials in film storytelling. He has worked on more than 100 theatrical and documentary films and series. His credits include Selma (Ava DuVernay); Milk (Gus Van Sant); Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney), The Good German (Steven Soderbergh), Amazon Studios' Troop Zero and other features. Theatrical documentaries include Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel; Inequality for All, a film about economist Robert Reich; and Vanessa Gould's Obit. He was associate producer and co-writer of Barry Levinson’s Yesterday’s Tomorrows for Disney/Showtime, and co-produced and co-wrote PBS’s The Storm that Swept Mexico, a centennial history of the Mexican Revolution. In addition, Rabin was project archivist for the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize as well as L. Richard Ellison’s Vietnam: A Television History. His work also appears in many episodes of PBS's American Masters, American Experience, POV and Independent Lens.
Kenn has led master classes at the Miami Film Festival and Seoul International Film Festival and for Women Make Movies, the Broadcast Educators Association, and others, and has been a guest lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson Center at the Smithsonian Institution, Stanford University, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and elsewhere. He also provides workshops on the use of archival materials, fair use and rights clearances for educational and advertising divisions of such corporations as Apple and Paramount UK. |
photo: John Sarran
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Press
- 2024: Student Filmmakers, "10 Things Student Filmmakers Need to Know About Rights, Licensing, Fair Use and Public Domain"
- 2020: Filmmakers Collaborative interview, "The Art and Science of Archival Storytelling," May 1
- 2016: Ford Foundation: Making Eyes on the Prize: An Oral History
- 2016, "Featuring: Kenn Rabin, San Anselmo," discussing the Beatles film Eight Days a Week - Archive Valley
- 2015: The American Historian (Organization of American Historians), “A Conversation with Selma Archival Producer Kenn Rabin”
- ITVS, “Kenn Rabin on Fair Use” (video)
- 2006, Variety, “Rabin rifles archives for ‘Good’ – Researcher found, cleared, and negotiated price for footage”: (Good Night, and Good Luck)
- 2005: Los Angeles Times, “A foot in footage past and present: Kenn Rabin, Archival Researcher”
