Lorie Conway is an American independent producer and

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

. Her work has received Peabody, DuPont and

CableACE award The CableACE Award (earlier known as the ACE Awards; ACE was an acronym for "Award for Cable Excellence") is a defunct award that was given by what was then the National Cable Television Association from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in Am ...

s. In 1993–94, she was a

Nieman Fellow The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University awards multiple types of fellowships. Nieman Fellowships for journalists A Nieman Fellowship is an award given to journalists by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

; 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 The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also the Library for the Commonwealth (formerly ''library of last recourse'') of the Commonwea ...

. 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 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

. 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. Filmography: *In development, "Hope is a Powerful Weapon," a feature-length documentary based on the prison letters of Nelson Mandela *In development, ELLIS, a dramatic series about the politics of immigration as 12 million Europeans streamed onto Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century; the series will be partially based on Forgotten Ellis Island, which told the lost story of the massive immigrant hospital on Ellis*''Everyonestory-Stories Worth Sharing'', web based video series featuring profiles of individuals who live among us but whom we rarely encounter beyond an anonymous presence *''Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law,'' distributed by Journeyman Films, screened on four continents * ''Undaunted, Chasing History at the Boston Marathon'' * '' Forgotten Ellis Island (film): The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital'' and book by the same name, PBS, Amazon * '' Fabulous Fenway'', narrated by

Mike Barnicle Michael Barnicle (born October 13, 1943) is an American print and broadcast journalist, and a social and political commentator. He is a senior contributor and the veteran columnist on MSNBC's '' Morning Joe''. He is also seen on NBC's ''Today Sh ...

, a commemorative history about the

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and the oldest ballpark in the

American league The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ...

* ''Thus Galbraith'', narrated by

William F. Buckley William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded ''National Review'', the magazine that stim ...

, a biography of the political economist,

John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through t ...

* ''

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

, the Way it Was'', a two-hour social history of Boston post WW 2 * ''The Jews of Boston'', a documentary history narrated by

Leonard Nimoy Leonard Simon Nimoy (; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, famed for playing Spock in the '' Star Trek'' franchise for almost 50 years. This includes originating Spock in the original ''Star Trek'' series in 1966, th ...

, who grew up in the West End of Boston * ''The Incredible Voyage of

Bill Pinkney Willie “Bill” Pinkney (August 15, 1925 – July 4, 2007) was an American performer and singer. Pinkney was often said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters, who achieved international fame with numerous hit records. He ...

'', Peabody Award winning documentary film about the first African-American to sail solo around the world

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