Rachel Grady

Rachel Grady at the 2016 Miami Film Festival.

Rachel Grady is an American film and television director and film producer of documentaries .

Life

In 1997 Grady teamed up with Heidi Ewing on a documentary project on Scientology . The two women decided to run a film production together. They founded Loki Films , named after a friend's daughter. They produced numerous documentaries for television and for the cinema.

At the 2007 Academy Awards , Grady and Ewing were nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary for their work on the documentary Jesus Camp . In 2007 they were also nominated for an Emmy Award for the documentary The Boys of Baraka , which was broadcast on PBS , in the Outstanding International Programming - Long Form category. Grady and Ewing were honored with the 2010 Peabody Award for documentary 12th & Delaware . In 2015 there was another Emmy nomination for Women Who Make America in the Outstanding Historical Programming category .

Private life

Grady became the mother of a son in 2010 through artificial insemination using anonymous sperm donation.

Filmography

2004: Mad Justice (Director)
2005: The Boys from Baraka (Director)
2006: Jesus Camp (Director)
2010: 12th & Delaware (co-director)
2010: Freakonomics (directing a segment)
2012: Detropia (Director)
2012: Me at the Zoo (producer)
2015: The Education of Mohammad Hussein (short documentary, co-director)
2015: The World Is as Big or As Small as You Make It (short documentary, co-director)
2015: A Dream Preferred (short documentary, director)
2016: Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (Director)
2016: One of Us (Director)