Rachel V. Lyon is an American film director and producer.
Career
Lyon has produced more than 65 feature films, movies-for-television, feature documentaries, and limited series for
PBS,
NBC,
CNN,
National Geographic
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, and the
History Channel.
In 1980, she produced ''Tell Me A Riddle'', which was directed by
Academy Award-winner
Lee Grant. Her 1985
FRONTLINE
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Books and publications
* ''Front Lines'' (novel), young adult historical novel by American author Michael Grant
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television documentary, ''Men Who Molest'', received an
Emmy
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for Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story.
Lyon's 2014 film ''
Hate Crimes in the Heartland'' received the
Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Newark Black Film Festival.
Lyon is the CEO of Lioness Media Arts, Inc.
Scholarship
Lyon has held faculty positions at
Bentley University,
Queens College
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,
Southern Methodist University, and
Northern Kentucky University
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. 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. 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.
Fundraising
In October 2013, Lyon joined the
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati as Director of Special Gifts.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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*''
Hate Crimes in the Heartland''
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Living people
American documentary film producers
American film directors
American women documentary filmmakers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women