Rachel Grady

Rachel Grady is an American documentary filmmaker.

She co-directed Jesus Camp (Academy Award nominee), The Boys of Baraka (Emmy nominee), 12th & Delaware (Peabody Award winner), DETROPIA (Emmy winner), Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016 Sundance Film Festival), One of Us (2017 Toronto International Film Festival), and the Showtime docuseries, Love Fraud, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Grady also co-directed Endangered, a documentary for HBO on the threats faced by journalists around the world.

Biography She is the stepdaughter of James Grady, author and investigative journalist. Grady was raised Jewish and still considers herself Jewish.

Career

Loki Films Many of Grady's prominent film projects have been co-directed and produced by her friend and business partner, Heidi Ewing. Meeting in 1997, Ewing and Grady found camaraderie in their similar approaches to creative projects. Soon thereafter, the two founded Loki Films in 2001, a production company that specializes in both short and feature films, as well as television and commercials.

Grady and Ewing approach their filmmaking with particular interest "in the nuances of the human experience and all of its colours and contours." Following the release of the film, the camp was forced to close down after garnering negative attention from its portrayal in the film.

Loki films' feature documentary One of Us debuted on Netflix in 2017. The film exposes many elements of Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community.

While developing the framework for One of Us, Grady said, "we started the film with what we always start all projects with, which is personal interest, curiosity".

Awards Jesus Camp premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 79thAcademy Awards.

Filmography