Rachel Grady
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)
Web links
- Rachel Grady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Loki Films
Individual evidence
- ^ Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady Discuss the Causes and Effects of 'Detropia' (video) , Hollywood Reporter, August 26, 2012.
- ↑ Erin Essenmacher, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing present a class on directing at Silverdocs , Christian Science Monitor of July 5, 2011.
- ↑ 2007 Oscars
- ↑ NOMINEES FOR THE 28TH ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS IN 32 CATEGORIES ANNOUNCED BY NATAS , Emmy Online July 17, 2007.
- ↑ 12th & Delaware (HBO) on the Peabody Awards homepage.
- ↑ NOMINEES FOR THE 36th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS , Emmy Online from September 15, 2015.
- ↑ Kate Bolick, Should You Have a Baby on Your Own? , Cosmopolitan on May 11, 2015.
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SURNAME | Grady, Rachel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director and film producer of documentaries |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |