Burns was the first speaker of the year at the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Town Hall speaker series. Director Rob ...

After the Senate passed Donald Trump‘s federal federal funding cuts to public media, documentarian Ken Burns worries for the future of documentary filmmaking. The two-time Oscar-nominee and five-time ...

Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new filmmakers and rural communities. He calls it a ...