Award winning filmmaker Lucille Carra was born in Manhattan. She holds a BFA in Film Production and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was cited Outstanding Woman Student of the Year (Tisch) from the New York University Alumni Association. Through her company, Travelfilm, she has produced, directed and written critically acclaimed cultural documentaries on an international scale.
Collaborating with producer/editor Brian Cotnoir, she filmed THE INLAND SEA (Earthwatch Film Award, Best Documentary/Hawaii International Film Festival) and DVORAK AND AMERICA, the first U.S.- Czech TV documentary co-production. Featuring previously unknown recordings of Dvoraks music, the film has been screened in conjunction with Dvorak festivals at several venues, including The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Royal Festival Hall in London. DVORAK has been broadcast annually on Independence Day in the Czech Republic and the United States.
THE LAST WRIGHT, produced and written with Garry McGee, was funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Iowa. The film chronicles the history of the last-standing Frank Lloyd Wright hotel, the Park Inn, and the efforts to restore it. With a focus on sustainability issues, the film offers a comparative study of several Wright masterpieces in America and Japan. It received a regional EMMY nomination for Best Writing and the Grand Prize from the Iowa Motion Picture Association of America. She is currently curating newly discovered performance work by legendary Canadian musician and broadcaster Glenn Gould in preparation for a new project, and is in post-production with a new film, GLENN GOULD, RECORDING ARTIST, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her films are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Sundance Collection.
Lucille Carra has an extensive background in arts administration and non-profit, and has worked in the distribution and archiving of international films, including the collections of several master Japanese filmmakers; in theater, she has worked as a production coordinator in New York's top theaters, and has facilitated the licensing of Broadway productions to Japan. An advocate for childrens literacy, she holds an additional MS degree in Education from CUNY.
She has arranged panels and has spoken on film and the arts: (partial listing)
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago: Frank Lloyd Wright in Iowa
Paley Center for Media: Rediscovering Glenn Gould
Iowa Independent Film Festival
Columbia University, Architecture Department
National Building Museum: Frank Lloyd Wright: Sustainability
New York University, Graduate Film: lecture, Documentary Filmmaking
The Czech Center , New York: Dvorak talk
University of Iowa: Dvorak talk
Minnesota Historical Society: Dvorak talk
Royal Festival Hall, London: Dvorak talk
Women Make Movies, New York: Non Profit Fundraising
Several lectures on The Inland Sea, including The Japan Society, New York ; British Film Institute, London ; Sydney International Film Festival.
Cinema Then, Cinema Now; CUNY-TV
Read articles by Lucille Carra
From Spillville, Iowa to the stairwells of Prague
On the making of DVORAK AND AMERICA in Real Screen Magazine.
Music for a Sunday Afternoon
On preserving Glenn Gould's television work.
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