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Chris Durrance

Producer/Dir, Writer
Ark Media

Chris Durrance is an Emmy, Peabody and duPont Columbia award-winning filmmaker, who has produced and directed dozens of films throughout Europe, Asia and the Mideast for PBS' "Frontline," presidential biographies for PBS' "American Experience," and two major documentary series' with filmmaker Ken Burns (Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies, The Gene: An Intimate History) adapted from books by Pulitzer Prize winning author and oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Currently, Durrance is directing and producing Caregiving, a four-hour multi-platform documentary series, slated to premiere in primetime on PBS stations throughout the United States, in Spring 2024, accompanied by an expansive public media outreach, engagement and education campaign, and global distribution. Caregiving is an Ark Media production (executive producer Barak Goodman), in association with Lea Pictures (executive producers Bradley Cooper & Weston Middleton), and WETA, the flagship PBS station in Washington, DC (executive producers John Wilson & Tom Chiodo).

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