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		ABOUT KDN FILMS
		With offices in Los Angeles and Detroit, KDN Films is a television production company that specializes in entertaining and thought-provoking historical and contemporary social documentaries. We have won numerous awards including an Emmy, a Cine Golden Eagle and Best Documentary at the Santa Fe Film Festival. KDN produces for many networks across the U.S. and the world, including: ABC World News Tonight, A&E, CBS Evening News, CNN, Discovery Communications (Animal Planet, The Learning Channel and the Travel Channel), the History Channel, RAI Television, ZDF, Channel 4, NHK, Fuji TV and many more. In addition to our broadcast productions, KDN also produces films for museum exhibitions as well as marketing and educational programs for corporate clients and governmental agencies. Bill Kubota is a founding partner of KDN Videoworks in Detroit—the parent company of KDN Films. He has received numerous awards for television news producing and has earned the reputation as one of the Midwest’s most respected television news producers and video photographers. His work has appeared on such programs as NBC Dateline, ABC World News Tonight and PBS Frontline. Bill also co-founded Uplynx, Inc., a satellite up-linking company based in Detroit delivering live television all over the country. In 1988, Bill founded KDN with the intention to produce documentary projects. By 2002, KDN launched its first documentary project: the award winning, Lustron – The House America’s Been Waiting For. His latest documentary looks at a Japanese-American war hero during WWII titled Most Honorable Son – Ben Kuroki’s Amazing War Story. Bill Ferehawk is a producer and director with film and television awards including a Cine Golden Eagle, Emmy and Best Documentary from the Santa Fe Film Festival. Mr. Ferehawk’s background is in architecture having worked in the offices of Kevin Roche, Charles Moore, the studio of sculptor Alice Aycock and as an art director for Walt Disney Imagineering, Dreamworks and Universal Studios. A three-time Graham Foundation grant recipient, Bill Ferehawk holds a Master of Architecture degree from Yale School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from University of California, Berkeley. Ed Moore studied documentary film at the University of Michigan and journalism at West Virginia University. Fresh perspectives on popular subjects. The overlooked and forgotten. Anything that makes a compelling story is fair game. He has won awards (Emmy, Cine Golden Eagle, Houston Int’l Film Festival and others), prestigious grants (Michigan Humanities Council/NEH, Graham Foundation and the Whitaker Foundation) and as a third-grader received an engraved invitation to President Carter’s inauguration (no kidding!). Ed works regularly as a producer for ABC News, the Discovery Channel & The Learning Channel and just about any other network worth mentioning. He is also on an advisory panel at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Chicago to create the Lustron preservation initiative to raise awareness about recent past preservation. Current productions include documentaries about Eero Saarinen, Minoru Yamasaki and familial CJD, a human form of mad cow disease. A mountaineer at heart from Almost Heaven West Virginia, when Ed starts pining for hills, you’ll find him with his wife, Manuela, in her hometown near the Italian Alps. Copyright 2006 KDN Films, Inc.