Ken Nolan(IV)
- Producer
Ken Nolan received his B.A from Yale University and J.D. from the University of Florida, has served as a co-executive producer of the Academy Award Winner (2018) Icarus, and has funded and executive produced numerous additional award-winning documentaries. He is a Board Member of the esteemed Chicago Media Project (CMP), a founding and current member of CMP's Impact Grant Fund, and an early advocate of its influential CMPAC Equity Fund. He has participated as a Creative Investor for the Sundance Catalyst Forum, and together with his wife, Christina, was a member of the Sundance Gold Circle. Ken devoted a substantial early part of his legal career advocating for the protection of vulnerable groups against fraud, to include low income consumers, and major charitable organizations; he then founded Nolan, Auerbach and White, a qui tam law firm that has brought compelling and crucial fraud cases on behalf of the United States in federal courts across the country, successfully prosecuting multiple groundbreaking cases for his law firm's heroic clients, which cases themselves have returned several hundreds of millions of dollars to the taxpayers of the United States.
Ken's passion for documentaries originates in their powerful ability to evoke and stoke our emotions at the deepest levels humanly possible. Ken believes that docs are the seeds of tears, of joy, of sadness, of fear, and of fierce altruism. Through docs, he has felt these emotions stronger and with more frequency than anything he has devoted his time to before. Ken wrote the scripted dramatic recreation for documentary film Davion (in production), about a young man who, despite having survived 35 different foster homes and 8 baseless involuntary placements in psychiatric lockdown facilities, shows how grit, determination, a positive attitude and a little help, persevered through thick and thin as he emerged from the foster care system; and he is writing and producing Truth (in production), a story about America's struggle with truth and falsity in the information age.
Over the years, Ken has written thousands of pages of creative and persuasive work in story form, which accompanied sealed lawsuits provided to the Department of Justice. They now sit in file cabinets, each only to have been read by less than a dozen government attorneys and federal agents. Through each documentary, Ken is grateful to be able to make available the stories of the brave, the oppressed and those with voices that need to be heard, to a much wider audience-as an entertaining film, in our digital age, has the catalytic potential to reach the great people of our nation, and in countries throughout the world, with significantly transforming effect.
Ken's passion for documentaries originates in their powerful ability to evoke and stoke our emotions at the deepest levels humanly possible. Ken believes that docs are the seeds of tears, of joy, of sadness, of fear, and of fierce altruism. Through docs, he has felt these emotions stronger and with more frequency than anything he has devoted his time to before. Ken wrote the scripted dramatic recreation for documentary film Davion (in production), about a young man who, despite having survived 35 different foster homes and 8 baseless involuntary placements in psychiatric lockdown facilities, shows how grit, determination, a positive attitude and a little help, persevered through thick and thin as he emerged from the foster care system; and he is writing and producing Truth (in production), a story about America's struggle with truth and falsity in the information age.
Over the years, Ken has written thousands of pages of creative and persuasive work in story form, which accompanied sealed lawsuits provided to the Department of Justice. They now sit in file cabinets, each only to have been read by less than a dozen government attorneys and federal agents. Through each documentary, Ken is grateful to be able to make available the stories of the brave, the oppressed and those with voices that need to be heard, to a much wider audience-as an entertaining film, in our digital age, has the catalytic potential to reach the great people of our nation, and in countries throughout the world, with significantly transforming effect.