NEW DAY FILMS BY
Lorraine Gray:

The Global Assembly Line

With Babies and Banners

Lorraine Gray is an internationally award winning nonfiction film director and producer. She has received an Emmy Award, Oscar nomination and a duPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award as the director/producer of her independent documentaries. (www.lorrainegray.info)

Ms. Gray is best known for two of her documentary films: the classic With Babies and Banner, the untold story of the women's role in the Great General Motors Sit Down Strike and The Global Assembly Line, the human story behind the global workplace. Both are hour long national PBS Specials. Their awards include: Blue Ribbons and a Grand Prize-American Film Festival; Golden Apple-National Film and Video Film Festival; Award of Excellence-National Film Advisory Board; John Grierson Award; an Outstanding Film of the Year-London Film Festival among others. (For further reviews and photos from these films go to www.womenhistory.info and www.globalassemblyline.info)

In her early twenties, Ms. Gray worked as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers and magazines such as The Washingtonian, Education Today, and the New York Times-DC Bureau, as well as team-produced and researched the award winning documentary The Emerging Woman, an independent documentary about women's social and economic history in the US.

In Washington, DC, Ms. Gray founded and directed the Educational TV and Film Center, dedicated to the production and distribution of educational film and companion booklets about women and work: past and present. There she wrote, produced and directed documentaries from conception to script to screen.

Lorraine Gray moved to Los Angeles as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute. And as an adjunct professor, she taught directing and producing, fiction and non-fiction, film and video at USC- School of Cinema-Television for two years. In addition, she has spoken at museums and universities such as Museum of Modern Art-NYC, Carnegie Melon University, Musee de L'Homme-Paris and American Film Institute-The Kennedy Center.

Ms. Gray received a Bachelor of Science interdisciplinary degree in Communications/Economics from American University and studied directing, producing, and story structure at UCLA Extension Program and the Directors' Guild of America-West Coast as a DGA directing member.

Lorraine Gray has worked extensively in the Los Angeles film industry in non-fiction film series for network and cable television, as well as on feature films and movies made-for-TV for studios and companies such as Disney Channel, PorchLight Entertainment, NBC, USA Network, and TNT. This work includes segment producing the science/adventure series World of Wonder for Discovery Channel, conceptualizing and producing programs on topics including astronomy, ants, ocean kayaking, time-lapse cinematography, and cold water survival; as well as associate producing Glory and Honor, a Turner Network dramatic feature film about Mathew Henson, Robert Peary and their collaboration with the Inuit as they explored the Arctic and struggled to reach the North Pole.

Ms. Gray's life-time commitment to educating broad audiences about women and work: past and present has lead her to her current documentary project One Hundred Stories: Women in Science and Technology in development aid the growing national awareness of the importance of bringing girls and young women from all backgrounds across the digital divide into the exciting world of science and technology.