Biographie
Barbara Gregson is an Emmy winner, Emmy nominated and FOCAL nominated, internationally known Archival Producer and specialist in Film Research, Rights and Clearances and Co-Produced the NBC series "Most Outrageous Moments" and "The Most Outrageous Television Moments" and has Associate Produced and Production Managed several HBO documentaries.
Projects include: "Gospel" for PBS, "Meltdown: Three Mile Island" & "ReMastered" for Netflix, the HBO documentary "The Defiant Ones" about Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine (nominated for Researcher of the Year by FOCAL International), "Original Sin: Sex", CNN's "The Seventies", "Straight Outta Compton", "Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey", "His Way", "The Harvey Weinstein Project", "The Art of the Steal", "Why We Laugh", "Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story", "Hollywood Chinese", "Golda's Balcony", "Peyote to LSD", "The Boomer Century", "This Film is Not Yet Rated", "The Last Mogul", "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession" and "The Kid Stays in the Picture".
Barbara participated in the Berkeley, California round-table discussion on "Orphan Works" for the U.S. Copyright Office and has been a guest lecturer for the Producers Guild of America, the International Documentary Association and USC School of Cinema, UCLA Department of Film and Television, California State University Northridge and UCLA Extension. Barbara was also a consultant for Clearances for feature film clips, stock shots and archive footage for the book "Film & Video Budgets" by Michael Wiese and Deke Simon.
Barbara has served on the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association, the American Association of Producers and is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Federation of Commercial and Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL), Women in Film and CLEAR, in which she served as Co-Executive Director (2012-2018).
In 2023 Barbara was nominated for 2 FOCAL Awards: Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award and Best Use of Footage in a History Production for the Netflix documentary series: Meltdown: Three Mile Island.
As an Archival Producer, Barbara received one Emmy in 2020 for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary ReMastered: The Lion's Share and another Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Historical Documentary ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium. She was also nominated as Archival Producer in 2019 for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary and Outstanding Research for "ReMastered". In 2018 Barbara was nominated for the Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year Award by FOCAL International for "The Defiant Ones." Past honors include a Certificate of Outstanding Service from The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for editing the Seminar Workbook "The Anatomy of Video Tape Production" and she was selected by director John Frankenheimer to receive the ATAS certificate "for contributions to the Emmy Award Winning Achievement-Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Movie 'George Wallace'."
Barbara attended California State University, Northridge where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Radio-Television Broadcasting, Emphasis in Film and the University of Southern California where she earned a Master of Science in Education, Instructional Technology. She also earned an MBA from UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business in 2013.
Barbara is President of Miller-Gregson Productions, Inc. that she co-founded.
