GM: No More Funding For Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 9, 2009 under Documentary, PBS, People | 
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General Motors Corp. will stop bankrolling movies made by PBS filmmaker Ken Burns as it tries to conserve cash and survive the worst sales market in 27 years.
GM, which is in danger of running out of money this month and has asked for as much as $30 billion in federal aid, is curtailing corporate sponsorships and slashing marketing expenses.
The cash crunch ends a 22-year relationship between GM and Burns. Under a 10-year deal that started in 1999, GM paid for 35 percent of each film’s budget and funded educational outreach programs tied to each documentary. [via]
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