Rachel Lyon

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Rachel Lyon
Born
Rachel Valerie Lyon
Occupation(s)Producer, director
Years active1980–present
Websitewww.lionessmedia.com

Rachel V. Lyon is an American film director and producer.

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Career

Lyon has produced more than 65 feature films, movies-for-television, feature documentaries, and limited series for PBS, NBC, CNN, National Geographic, and the History Channel. [1] In 1980, she produced Tell Me A Riddle, which was directed by Academy Award-winner Lee Grant. [2] Her 1985 FRONTLINE television documentary, Men Who Molest, received an Emmy for Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story. [3] Lyon's 2014 film Hate Crimes in the Heartland received the Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Newark Black Film Festival. [4]

Lyon is the CEO of Lioness Media Arts, Inc. [5]

Scholarship

Lyon has held faculty positions at Bentley University, [6] Queens College, [7] Southern Methodist University, [8] and Northern Kentucky University. [9] She is the author of "Media, Race, Crime, and the Punishment: Re-Framing Stereotypes in Crime and Human Rights Issues," which was published in the DePaul Law Review in 2009. [10] In 2012, Lyon co-authored the paper "Digital Divisions: Racial (In)Justice and Limits of Social Informatics in The State of Georgia vs. Troy Anthony Davis," which was presented at the Northern Kentucky Law Review Symposium, and published in the Northern Kentucky Law Review. [11] [12]

Fundraising

In October 2013, Lyon joined the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati as Director of Special Gifts. [13]

Selected filmography

YearTitlePosition
2014 Hate Crimes in the Heartland Writer/Director/Producer
2010 Etruscan Odyssey: Expanding Archaeology Director/Producer
2008Juror Number SixDirector/Producer
2007Race to ExecutionDirector/Producer
2001Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to WashingtonDirector/Producer
1995Shadow Over Tibet: Stories in ExileDirector/Producer
1991 Thousand Pieces of Gold Associate Producer
1985Men Who Molest: Children Who SurviveProducer
1980Tell Me A RiddleProducer

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References

  1. "Rachel Lyon Biography". Filmmaker's Collaborative.
  2. "25th Anniversary Screening of Lee Grant's Tell Me A Riddle" (Press release). New York Women in Film & Television. October 23, 2005.
  3. "FRONTLINE Programs - Men Who Molest". PBS/WGBH-TV. April 16, 1985.
  4. "2014 Newark Black Film Festival Announces Paul Robeson Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). Newark Museum. July 23, 2014.
  5. "Official Website".
  6. "Bentley Presents Documentary Juror Number Six by Professor Rachel Lyon" (Press release). Bentley University. April 7, 2008.
  7. "Rachel Lyon Biography". ITVS.
  8. Musgrove, Rebecca (February 27, 2009). "When to Kill". The Daily Campus.
  9. Hurdelbrink, Miranda (September 13, 2014). "Locally-produced award winning documentary 'Hate Crimes in the Heartland' at the Cincinnati Film Festival". Cincinnati Enquirer.
  10. Lyon, Rachel (Spring 2009), "Media, Race, Crime, and the Punishment:Re-Framing Stereotypes in Crime and Human Rights Issues", DePaul Law Review, 58 (3)
  11. McPhail, Mark; Lyon, Rachel; Harris, David (2012), "Digital Divisions: Racial (In)Justice and the Limits of Social Informatics in The State of Georgia vs. Troy Anthony Davis" (PDF), Northern Kentucky Law Review, 39 (2): 137–161
  12. "Northern Kentucky Law Review Symposium" (PDF) (Press release). NKU Chase Law & Informatics Institute. March 1, 2012.
  13. "Jewish Federation hires international filmmaker for fundraising position". Cincinnati Enquirer. October 24, 2013.