Rachel Lyon
{{short description|American film director and producer}}
{{for|the novelist|Rachel Lyon (novelist)}}
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Mr. Dreyfuss goes to Washington
| birth_name = Rachel Valerie Lyon
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| occupation = Producer, director
| yearsactive = 1980–present
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| website = www.lionessmedia.com
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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, and the History Channel.{{cite web|title=Rachel Lyon Biography|publisher=Filmmaker's Collaborative|url=http://filmmakerscollab.org/filmmakers/rachel-lyon/}} In 1980, she produced Tell Me A Riddle, which was directed by Academy Award-winner Lee Grant.{{cite press release|title=25th Anniversary Screening of Lee Grant's Tell Me A Riddle|publisher=New York Women in Film & Television|date=October 23, 2005|url=http://www.nywift.org/article.aspx?id=269}} Her 1985 FRONTLINE television documentary, Men Who Molest, received an Emmy for Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/315.html|title=FRONTLINE Programs - Men Who Molest|publisher=PBS/WGBH-TV|date=April 16, 1985}} Lyon's 2014 film Hate Crimes in the Heartland received the Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Newark Black Film Festival.{{cite press release|title=2014 Newark Black Film Festival Announces Paul Robeson Award Winners|publisher=Newark Museum|date=July 23, 2014|url=http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52646597e4b0c4085017f26f/t/54592f7be4b06b0c5889b505/1415131003812/2014+Robeson+awards+winners+FINAL.pdf}}
Lyon is the CEO of Lioness Media Arts, Inc.{{cite web|title=Official Website|url=http://www.lionessmedia.com}}
Scholarship
Lyon has held faculty positions at Bentley University,{{cite press release|title=Bentley Presents Documentary Juror Number Six by Professor Rachel Lyon|publisher=Bentley University|date=April 7, 2008|url=http://www.bentley.edu/newsroom/latest-headlines/bentley-presents-documentary-juror-number-six-professor-rachel-lyon}} Queens College,{{cite web|title=Rachel Lyon Biography|publisher=ITVS|url=http://itvs.org/films/race-to-execution/filmmaker}} Southern Methodist University,{{cite news|last=Musgrove|first=Rebecca|title=When to Kill|publisher=The Daily Campus|date=February 27, 2009|url=http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/when-to-kill}} and Northern Kentucky University.{{cite news|last=Hurdelbrink|first=Miranda|title=Locally-produced award winning documentary 'Hate Crimes in the Heartland' at the Cincinnati Film Festival|publisher=Cincinnati Enquirer|date=September 13, 2014|url=http://local.cincinnati.com/share/story/217623}} 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.{{Citation|last=Lyon|first=Rachel|title=Media, Race, Crime, and the Punishment:Re-Framing Stereotypes in Crime and Human Rights Issues|journal=DePaul Law Review|volume=58|date=Spring 2009|issue=3|url=http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=law-review}} 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.{{citation|last1=McPhail|first1=Mark|last2=Lyon|first2=Rachel|last3=Harris|first3=David|title=Digital Divisions: Racial (In)Justice and the Limits of Social Informatics in The State of Georgia vs. Troy Anthony Davis|journal=Northern Kentucky Law Review|volume=39|pages=137–161|year=2012|issue=2|url=http://b.3cdn.net/ncadp/1d36b436f9262f5db9_gkm6bh3s2.pdf}}{{cite press release|title=Northern Kentucky Law Review Symposium|publisher=NKU Chase Law & Informatics Institute|date=March 1, 2012|url=http://chaselaw.nku.edu/documents/LII/spring_2012_symposium/schedule.pdf}}
Fundraising
In October 2013, Lyon joined the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati as Director of Special Gifts.{{cite news|title=Jewish Federation hires international filmmaker for fundraising position|publisher=Cincinnati Enquirer|date=October 24, 2013|url=http://local.cincinnati.com/share/story/209825}}
Selected filmography
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| Year || Title || Position | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Hate Crimes in the Heartland | Writer/Director/Producer |
| 2010 | Etruscan Odyssey: Expanding Archaeology | Director/Producer |
| 2008 | Juror Number Six | Director/Producer |
| 2007 | Race to Execution | Director/Producer |
| 2001 | Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington | Director/Producer |
| 1995 | Shadow Over Tibet: Stories in Exile | Director/Producer |
| 1991 | Thousand Pieces of Gold | Associate Producer |
| 1985 | Men Who Molest: Children Who Survive | Producer |
| 1980 | Tell Me A Riddle | Producer |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.lionessmedia.com}}
- {{IMDb name|0528971}}
- Hate Crimes in the Heartland
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Category:American documentary film producers
Category:American women film directors
Category:American documentary film directors