Rachel Lyon

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. In 1980, she produced Tell Me A Riddle, which was directed by Academy Award-winner Lee Grant. Her 1985 FRONTLINE television documentary, Men Who Molest, received an Emmy 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, Southern Methodist University, and Northern Kentucky University. 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

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