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Amy Stechler Dies: Frida Kahlo Documentarian, Ken Burns Collaborator Was 67

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Amy Stechler, the Emmy-nominated filmmaker of PBS’s The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo (2005) and the ex-wife and early collaborator of documentarian Ken Burns, died Friday, Aug.

26, at her home in  Walpole, N.H. She was 67.Her death was announced to The New York Times by daughters Sarah and Lilly Burns, who said that Stechler had been in declining health due to multiple sclerosis.Stechler and Burns attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., in the 1970s.

After Burns and two other Hampshire classmates, Roger Sherman and Buddy Squires, formed Florentine Films in 1976, Stechler soon joined the venture.

The group’s first project was the Oscar-nominated documentary Brooklyn Bridge, which made the festival rounds in 1981 and aired on PBS in 1982.Stechler and Burns married in 1982 and divorced in 1993.

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