LORIE CONWAY During her twenty-five year career of producing television and films, Lorie Conway has been the recipient of several national broadcast awards, including the Peabody and Cable Ace Award for "The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney," and the Columbia University duPont Award for "Fortunate Son," about Lewis Puller, son of the legendary Marine General Chesty Puller. Lorie Conway's works for public television includes: The Life & Times of John Kenneth Galbraith, Boston: the Way it Was, The Jews of Boston, and Fabulous Fenway, a commemorative history of Fenway Park, America’s oldest major-league ballpark. Lorie Conway has also produced numerous short films and videos for Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and various non-profit organizations. Forgotten Ellis Island, the latest film produced by Lorie Conway and her company, Boston Film and Video Productions, is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities grants and was broadcast nationally on PBS in 2009. |
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"I’m not often speechless but after watching Lorie Conway’s film, Forgotten Narrated by Elliott Gould, the film premiered in the Great Hall on Ellis Island, an abbreviated version is being shown at the Ellis Island museum. To learn more go to www.forgottenellisisland.com Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins published the companion book to the film, also written by Lorie Conway. For more information about hosting a screening of the film, please contact Lorie Conway at Conway@forgottenellisisland.com Boston Film and Video Productions is currently fundraising for Where We Have Hope, Going Home to Zimbabwe; she has partnered with Andrew Meldrum, an American journalist, to produce the film based on Meldrum's memoir, Where Where Have Hope, about living and reporting in Zimbabwe for almost three decades before being forcibly deported from his adopted country. To watch the trailer, click here.
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