Rory O'Connor (filmmaker)
| Rory O'Connor | |
|---|---|
| Born | New York, New York |
| Nationality | US |
| Education | B.A., Boston College; Fellow, Rutgers University; Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| Website | http://roryoconnor.org/ |
Rory O’Connor is a journalist, author, educator and documentary filmmaker. He is co-founder and president of the Globalvision Corporation, and Board Chair of The Global Center], an affiliated non-profit foundation. His films and television programs have aired on PBS,BBC, NHK, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and numerous other networks. He has played a key role in the production of more than two dozen documentaries, and his broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award for Outstanding Documentary, an Orwell Award and two Emmys. He has written several books, and blogs for the Huffington Post,AlterNet, Al Jazeera and other news sources.
During a ten-year stint in print, culminating as Managing Editor of the Boston-area weekly alternative newspaper The Real Paper, O'Connor began working in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at WGBH-TV in Boston. He later worked as a producer and investigator at WCVB-TV, Boston; a Program Producer at WGBH; Executive Producer at Boston's Neighborhood Network News; segment producer at the PBS NewsHour; and Producer at CBS News, before co-founding the independent international media firm Globalvision.
2011: Producer, Executive Producer “The Harvest (La Cosecha),” Independent Documentary produced with ShineGlobal
2010: Director, Writer, Co-Producer “The Battle of Durban II: Israel, Palestine and the United Nations,” Independent Documentary produced with Second Generation Films
2010: Executive Producer “Plunder: The Crime of Our Time,” Independent Documentary
2009: Executive Producer “Barack Obama: People’s President,” Independent Documentary with Videovision
2008: Executive Producer “Viva Madiba,” Independent Documentary with Videovision
2007: Executive Producer “Frontrunner: The Afghan Woman Who Surprised the World,” Independent Documentary
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