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In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
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Lorie Conway is an author and independent producer for Boston Film & Video Productions, a company she founded in 1998. Forgotten Ellis Island, Conway's most recent book and film, which is narrated by Elliott Gould, is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities grants; it is the first book and film to be produced about the abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. For two years, the National Park Service gave exclusive access to Ms. Conway's production company to film the massive, 22 building medical complex adjacent to Ellis Island. The film premiered in the Great Hall on Ellis Island and was broadcast on national PBS Feb. 2, 2009. An abbreviated version of Forgotten Ellis Island will be shown at the Ellis Island museum. To schedule a screening or book signing, please contact bostonfilmvideo@gmail.com and visit www.forgottenellisisland.comSome of Lorie Conway's past work includes: "The Incredible Voyage of Bill Pinkney," for which she received the Peabody Award and the Cable Ace Award, and "Fortunate Son," which received the Columbia University duPont Award. Lorie Conway's works for public television includes: The Life & Times of John Kenneth Galbraith, Boston: the Way it Was, The Jews of Boston, and Fabulous Fenway, a commemorative history of Fenway Park, America's oldest major-league ballpark. Lorie Conway has also produced numerous short films and videos for Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the Nieman Foundation, EngenderHealth, a leading international non-profit based in New York, and others.
