“The Undertaking,” PBS Frontline’s 2007 film based on Thomas Lynch’s book by the same name has won the Emmy Award for Arts & Culture Documentary presented in New York City on September 22.  David Fanning, executive producer of Frontline, accepted the award for filmmakers, Karen O’Connor and Miri Navasky.   The 29th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Ceremony was held in the Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center.  More than a thousand television and new media executives, news and documentary producers and journalists attended.  Broadcast in October of 2007, “The Undertaking” focused on the lives and work of Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors in Milford and Clawson, Michigan.  It followed several families through the process of terminal illness, decisions about funeral arrangements, burials and cremations, and into the early months of bereavement.  It examined the role of funeral directors, hospice workers and others in caring for the living and the dead.  “Of course we are honored by this award,” says Michael Lynch, “and pleased for Karen O’Connor and Miri Navasky and David Fanning who worked hard to tell the stories of families in the most difficult times.  And it honors the courage of the Verrino, King and Leonard families who allowed filmmakers inside their personal grief in order to inform and inspire the larger community.”