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.
       

"I’m not often speechless but after watching Lorie Conway’s film, Forgotten
 Ellis Island, I find myself searching for words. It is so beautifully produced
and so artfully crafted. Bravo!"
- Cynthia Garrett, Superintendent, Ellis Island National Park,
at the premiere of the film on Ellis Island

Forgotten Ellis Island, Conway’s most recent film, narrated by Elliott Gould, is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Forgotten Ellis Island is the first film to be produced about the abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. For two years, the National Park Service gave exclusive access to Boston Film & Video Productions to film the massive, 22 building medical complex adjacent to Ellis Island. The film premiered in the Great Hall on Ellis Island and will be broadcast nationally on PBS Feb. 2, 2009 AT 10 PM; an abbreviated version of the film is being shown daily at the Ellis Island museum.

Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins published the companion book to the film, also written by Lorie Conway. Through the Harper Collins Speakers Bureau, she is conducting screenings and book talks about the decade long film and book project. For more information, please visit, www.forgottenellisisland.com or contact Lorie Conway at Conway@forgottenellisisland.com
or call 617 388 7443.