Greg Grainger

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Name Greg Grainger		Role Film Maker

Awards Logie Award for Most Outstanding News Coverage Similar Elizabeth Alexander (actress), Jennifer Aniston, Paul Lockyer

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Greg Grainger is an Australian film-maker, TV presenter, producer, director, journalist, newsreader, station manager, news director, political correspondent and documentary maker. His works spans both high-definition travel and adventure documentaries, to wildlife programs. He has numerous distinctions including being a Logie Award winner for "Best News Coverage" (9 Network) and 2011 IAB Awards "Best of Show".

Grainger is also CEO/Executive producer of the Sydney-based TV Production companies: GraingerTV, Corporate Video Australia and Grainger Films.

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Awards and achievements

Grainger’s coverage of the George Street Sydney bombings in 1972, Australia’s first terrorism attack, won the Logie Awards for Best News Coverage (See: Logie award winners)

Grainger (under Grainger TV) produced the Making Tracks campaign for DDB Sydney & Tourism Australia, which won 1st prize for Best of Show during the 2011 IAB Australia Day.

He filmed the first white water rafting expedition across Tibet (1986), capturing events such as sky burials where the dead are cut up and fed to the vultures, WHITE FURY – THE UNTAMED TIBET (Link Source: National Library of Australia).

He has crossed the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in the wake of Irish explorer Sir Earnest Shackleton, featured in the documentary THE ISLAND AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Link Source: Victorian Government).

Grainger's all-Aussie Travel program Travel Oz [8], has resulted in him being appointed one of Tourism Australia’s cultural ambassadors, as part of the FRIENDS OF AUSTRALIA program.

Grainger is an annual Australia Day ambassador.

Network & radio work

Grainger has worked for Australian and International news & documentary networks which include National Geographic (USA) & Discovery Channel, Australia network (Asia/Pacific), Travel Channel (Europe/USA), and the Seven Network (for the Travel Oz series- Australia’s TV travel program and Grainger’s World).

Grainger's experience in radio and TV journalism include deputy news director Capital Radio London, News Director Radio 2UE Sydney, "General Manager Radio 2KA Blue Mountains, Radio 2GB, Radio 2UW"(Source: Zoom Info).

Film works

Grainger has produced a catalogue of adventure, travel and wildlife programs, from the "Antarctic to the Arctic", from the High Himalayas to the Dead Sea. His 1991 encounter with Princess Diana featured in the 2 part series THE CHARM OF BRITAIN.

His time with cannibals in Irian Jaya featured in the documentary CANNIBAL CRUSADE. (Source: National Library of Australia)

National Geographic commissioned Grainger to produce a documentary ON THIN ICE on the plight of polar bears as a result of global warming, resulting in a series of expeditions to Hudson Bay and Svalbard.

For the past 5 years, he served as the producer and presenter for 96 episodes of the entirely Australian travel series, "TRAVEL OZ." The program, which aired on ABC1 from 2008 to 2013 and on the Seven Network from 2014 to 2015, featured adventures ranging from the Tiwi and Torres Strait Islands to crossing the flooded Simpson Desert and exploring shipwrecks on the Middleton Reef.

The program titled Grainger’s World also screens 3 times a week on the TVS.

Affiliations

GraingerTV is a Sydney-based production company, specialising in television documentaries and programs.

Corporate Video Australia specialises in creating outstanding corporate videos. His is a team of dynamic, innovative and creative professionals who thrive on video creation.

GraingerFilms specialises in high-end productions for clients such as Audi, Chanel and Tourism Australia.