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Harrington's most recently completed independent production Welcome to the Club - The Women of Rockabilly, a music documentary about the pioneering women of rock and roll, was honored with a 2003 GRAMMY™ nomination and has been seen on public television and at films festivals in the U.S. and abroad. [NOTE: In a previous lifetime she was a rock & roll singer herself, noted for her years as a member of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers on Warner Brothers/Sire Records.] She is currently at work on The Winding Stream, the story of the Original Carter Family and their musical legacy which is both a music history and performance film. This is being produced in conjunction with the Country Music Hall of Fame and 821 Entertainment. In 2005, Zigzag, the innovative television show she wrote, co-produced and directed received a regional Emmy nomination in the Public Affairs category. She also produced, wrote and directed the critically acclaimed autobiographical documentary The Blinking Madonna & Other Miracles which aired on public television and at numerous film festivals. This film is a personal spin-off of her ethnic studies documentaries Ave Maria and The Moveable Feast. Harrington enjoys a steady and productive relationship as an independent contractor with Oregon Public Broadcasting, producing, researching and developing new shows for national air. She has recently completed duties as producer/director/writer on the popular PBS series, History Detectives. She was the producer/director of Digital Television: A Cringely Crash Course, one of PBS's first HDTV offerings. She served as co-producer/writer of Aleutians: Cradle of the Storms for PBS and Natural History New Zealand. In addition, she was written for various history series for OPB and Annenberg Media including The Homes of FDR and episodes of Bridging World History and America's History in the Making. Through Boston's Documentary Guild and WGBH, she has worked as a line producer and associate producer on various shows for PBS, among them programs for NOVA, Frontline and The Health Quarterly, in addition to two PBS specials. These shows have been honored with a number of awards, including a Peabody (Dating in the Age of AIDS) and two National Emmy nominations (In the Path of a Killer Volcano, and Apollo 13: To The Edge and Back). She has also worked on occasion as an editorial consultant to the National Film Board of Canada. She is active in various film communities, most recently having served on the board of Film Action Oregon as well as the Oregon Media Production Association. She is a past President of Women in Film/New England and a former Vice President of Women in Film/Seattle. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. She has been a media instructor at Washington State University, Lewis and Clark College, Bunker Hill Community College, New England School of Photography, Boston Film/Video Foundation, the Northwest Film Center and the Olympia Film Society. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Public Communications from Syracuse University and a Master's degree in American Studies from UMass Boston. Festival Interview: The following is a six part interview with Beth Harrington conducted by Festival coordinator Steve Newcomb during the 2010 OpenLens Festival.
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DIVA was please to have as the host of the Sixth Annual OpenLens Festival, Beth Harrington. Harrington is an award-winning producer, director and writer, born in Boston and transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. She often focuses on work that explores American history, music and culture. 
