Filmmaker Ken Burns Featured in Reel Talk on Kodak Website

LOS ANGELES--Ken Burns will participate in Reel Talk, an online chaton Friday, December 13 at 10:30 a.m. (PST) hosted by Kodak.Toparticipate in the live chat or read the transcript, go to www.kodak.com/go/motion andclick on the Reel Talk with Ken Burns link. Burns will be presented the2002 Career Achievement Award from the International DocumentaryAssociation later that evening at the Directors Guild of AmericaTheatre in Hollywood.

Burns was nominated for an Academy Award in 1981 for BrooklynBridge, his first non-fiction film project. He has subsequentlyproduced and directed such critically-acclaimed documentaries as TheCivil War, Jazz, Baseball, Lewis & Clark,The Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson, and FrankLloyd Wright.

"This Internet chat is a unique opportunity for filmmakers, studentsand fans from around the world to speak with and get their questionsanswered by one of the most influential filmmakers and storytellers ofour times," says IDA President Michael Donaldson. "We are grateful toKodak, a long-timer supporter of IDA, for sponsoring this chat."

Ken Burns' American Stories is a weekly series currentlyairing on PBS stations. The program features the acclaimed documentaryfilmmaker introducing some of his most memorable films. Burns and hisNew Hampshire-based company, Florentine Films, currently have twoprojects in production. Horatio's Drive follows the firstcross-country automobile trip, and Jack Johnson is a portrait ofthe complicated boxer who became the first African American heavyweightchampion.