Lorie Conway
Bio:
Lorie Conway is an American independent producer and filmmaker. Her work has received Peabody, DuPont and CableACE awards. In 1993-94, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University; she served for eight years as Vice President of the Nieman Foundation Advisory Board and has served for ten years as an Associate of the Boston Public Library. Lorie Conway’s work on Forgotten Ellis Island, the first film and book about the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, was supported by three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For over two years, her production company, Boston Film and Video, filmed the former hospital complex on Ellis Island. Recent film projects includes Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law, about one of the bravest lawyers in Africa -- who has been defending victims of Robert Mugabe's brutal regime in Zimbabwe. Tiny Ripples of Hope, a sequel to that film, is currently in development about a school named after Mtetwa which is teaching students about their human rights in Uganda.
WMC Live
February 12, 2016 | Lorie Conway, Dr. Edythe E. Weeks, Esq., Betsy Teutsch |
Gender-based violence,
Politics,
Robin Morgan
WMC Live #155: Lorie Conway, Edythe Weeks, Betsy Teutsch. (Original Airdate 2/13/2016)
Robin on Syria—and on women who support Sanders. Guests: Lorie Conway on her doc film "Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law"; Edythe Weeks on outer space laws and sex/race equality; Betsy Teutsch's "100 Tools to Empower Global Women for Under $100."
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