Greg Grainger is an Australian filmmaker and TV presenter and known for travel and adventure documentaries and wildlife programs.Screen Australia List of Grainger documentaries
/ref> Grainger is a

Logie Award The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine '' TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as th ...

winner for "Best News Coverage"Tourism Australia
- Friends of Australia ( 9 Network) and 2011 IAB Awards "Best of Show".2011 IAB Awards Full Set of Winners
/ref> Grainger is also the CEO and Executive producer of GraingerTV,Greg Grainger Resources on National Library of Australia
/ref> Corporate Video Australia and Grainger Films.

Career

Grainger has worked for the

National Geographic Channel National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney General ...

The Discovery Channel Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Chan ...

,Wildest Africa (1995) on Discovery Channel
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ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel) ABC Australia, formerly Australia Television International (or just Australia Television), ABC Asia Pacific, Australia Network and Australia Plus, is an Australian pay television channel, launched in 1993 and operated by the Australian Broadca ...

, the

Travel Channel Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which had previously owned the channel from 1997 to 2007. The channel is headquartered in New York, New York, United ...

, and the Seven Network. Grainger's experience in radio and TV journalism include deputy news director

Capital London Capital London is a radio station owned and operated by the Global Media & Entertainment, Global media company as part of its national Capital (radio network), Capital FM Network. As Capital Radio it was launched in the London area in 1973 as o ...

,http://www.mediauk.com/article/10/lbcs-first-day News Director Radio of

2UE 2UE is an all-music radio station in Sydney owned by Nine Entertainment Co and run under a lease agreement by Ace Radio. It currently broadcasts from its studios in Pyrmont, New South Wales. History 1920s 2EU Electrical Utilities applied to the ...

Sydney, "General Manager Radio 2KA Blue Mountains,

Radio 2GB 2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia owned by parent company Nine Radio, a division of Nine Entertainment Co., who also own sister station 2UE. 2GB broadcasts on 873 kHz, AM. In 2010, 2GB held 14.7% of the total radio rat ...

, Radio 2UW". Grainger has produced a catalogue of adventure, travel and wildlife programs, from the "Antarctic to the Arctic",Wildest Antarctica and Arctic (DVD)
/ref> from the High HimalayasAcross the Roof of the World
/ref> to the Dead Sea.http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/find-a-film/detail.aspx?tid=8401 , http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/find-a-film/detail.aspx?tid=8401 Grainger's coverage of the

Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing The Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing occurred in Haymarket, Sydney on 16 September 1972, injuring 16 people. The perpetrators of the attack were alleged to be Croatian separatists. History On 16 September 1972, two bombs ...

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 Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. Dealing with risk is often a ...

expedition across

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

. In the documentary film ''The Island at the End of the World'', Grainer crossed

South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east ...

following the path of

Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of A ...

. Grainger's time with

cannibals Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is well documented, bo ...

Irian Jaya New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres ...

featured in the documentary ''Cannibal Crusade''. National Geographic commissioned Grainger to produce ''On Thin Ice'', a documentary about

polar bears The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the largest extant bear spec ...

and

global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in a broader sense also includes ...

. The film crew traveled to

Hudson Bay Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...

in Canada and Svalbard in Norway.On Thin Ice
Grainger produced the ''Making Tracks'' campaign for DDB Sydney and Tourism Australia. It won 1st prize for Best of Show during the 2011 IAB Australia Day.IAB Australia Awards Grainger produced and presented 96 episodes of ''Travel Oz''. Episodes included visits to the

Tiwi Islands The Tiwi Islands ( tiw, Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island, Bathurst Island, and nine smaller uninhabited islands, wi ...

, the

Torres Strait Islands The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their total land ...

, the

Simpson Desert The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia. It is the fourth-largest Australian desert, with an area of . The desert is underlain by the ...

and the

Middleton Reef Middleton Reef is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. It is separated by a deep oceanic pass some 47 km wide from nearby Elizabeth Reef, forming part of the Lord Howe Rise underwater plateau. It is around 230 km from Lord Howe Island and ...

. The show ran on ABC1 from 2008 to 2013 and on the Seven Network from 2014 to 2015. Grainger is an annual Australia Day ambassador.St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
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References

External links

WHITE FURY – THE UNTAMED TIBET

THE ISLAND AT THE END OF THE WORLDTravel Oz

National Library of Australia
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