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Directing
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Greg Grainger
Directing
Biography
Greg Grainger is an Australian filmmaker and TV presenter and known for travel and adventure documentaries and wildlife programs. Grainger is a Logie Award winner for "Best News Coverage" (9 Network) and 2011 IAB Awards "Best of Show". Grainger is also the CEO and Executive producer of GraingerTV, Corporate Video Australia and Grainger Films.
Grainger has worked for the National Geographic Channel, The Discovery Channel, ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), the Travel Channel, and the Seven Network. Graingers experience in radio and TV journalism include deputy news director Capital London, News Director Radio of 2UE Sydney, "General Manager Radio 2KA Blue Mountains, Radio 2GB, Radio 2UW".
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. Grainger's coverage of the Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing in 1972 won the Logie Awards for Best News Coverage. His 1991 encounter with Princess Diana was featured in the 2 part series "The Charm of Britain".
Grainger's program Travel Oz resulted in him being appointed one of Tourism Australia's cultural ambassadors, as part of the Friends of Australia program. In 1986, Grainger filmed "White Fury - The Untame Tibet", the first white water rafting expedition across Tibet. In the documentary film "The Island at the End of the World", Grainer crossed South Georgia following the path of Ernest Shackleton. G…