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		BROADCAST Most Honorable Son – Ben Kuroki’s Amazing War Story World Premiere September 17 AT 9PM on PBS (CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS) A national PBS release, Most Honorable Son tells the exploits of America's first Japanese-American war hero, Ben Kuroki. A lone Nisei in the Air Corps during WWII, Ben survived a crashing landing in Spanish Morocco, imprisonment in Spain, the disastrous Ploesti raid, angry resisters in the internment camps, and B-29 raids over Tokyo. 60 minutes/Co-producer: Nebraska Educational Telecommunications/Broadcast: PBS/Fall 2006 Please visit the official "Most Honorable Son" site at pbs.org The Dangerous Mind of Eero Saarinen This documentary chronicles the life and work of one of the most prolific, controversial and influential architects of postwar America, a dangerous apostate to the Modernist movement’s fanatical fervor, Eero Saarinen. With dramatic flair and courageous experimentation, Saarinen helped define the international image of the U.S. at the start of the Cold War with some of the most potent symbolic expressions of American identity such as the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the General Motors Technical Center, the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, the CBS Building in Manhattan and Dulles Airport. 90 minutes/Co-producer: Detroit Public Television/Broadcast: PBS/Fall 2007 Watch a preview: windows media quicktime Lustron – The House America’s Been Waiting For This award-winning documentary tells the story of Chicago inventor and industrialist Carl Strandlund and his unique vision to solve the post-WWII housing crisis by mass-producing 100 houses per day on an automotive assembly. Lustron investigates the resulting conspiracy to take over a company that many claimed would be “the General Motors of housing.” 60 minutes/Co-producer: WOSU The Ohio State University/Broadcast: PBS/November 2003 Lustron website COMMISSIONED INSTALLATIONS Vladimir Ossipoff: Hawai’i’s Modernist A historical documentary commissioned by the Honolulu Academy of Art for its traveling exhibition of 20th century modernist architect Vladimir Ossipoff. Born in Russia, raised in Tokyo and trained as an architect in California, Val Ossipoff’s influence on modernist architecture looms large over Honolulu, the Hawai’ian islands and far beyond. 30 minutes/Fall 2007 Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Commissioned by Yale University, the Finnish Cultural Institute, the National Building Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Interview footage and b-roll from The Dangerous Mind of Eero Saarinen will be repackaged to travel with an international traveling exhibition that begins in Helsinki, Finland, with stops throughout Europe and the United States. 20 minutes/October 2006 The Return of the Guardian Building This documentary short tells the story of Detroit’s deco masterpiece and its prolific and idiosyncratic designer, Wirt Rowland of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls (now SmithGroup). Viewed in the newly renovated Retail Promenade of the Guardian Building, this film has become an essential focal point attracting pedestrians looking to tour Detroit’s “architectural jewel.” Commissioned by national developer, Sterling Group, The Return of the Guardian Building was unveiled by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. 15 minutes/November 2004 Design Intervention - the Work of Father Curry This moving documentary short tells the story of Father Terrence Curry, Jesuit priest and award-winning architect, who connects streetwise Bronx teenagers with suburban Fordham University students in an effort to design and build a community center on the precise spot where a crackhouse once stood. Design Intervention is currently used as a fundraising tool and as a document for Father Curry’s collaborative design process. Supported in part by a grant from the Graham Foundation in Chicago. Watch a preview: windows media quicktime Copyright 2007 KDN Films, Inc.