Bailey Barash is an independent documentary maker and journalist. She began her television career at a local Atlanta station and within a few months moved to CNN where she was in on the beginning of the first 24-hour cable news network in 1980. Over her 18 – plus year career at CNN she moved from production assistant to Senior Executive Producer, generating medical, science and technology news, features and documentaries and leading a team of journalists in award-winning programming. She left CNN in 1999 to form her own company, bbarash productions.
Her company produces videos for non-profits and social service agencies and corporations, and her own independent films on issues of aging, public health and health care, racism and social justice. Barash writes, shoots, and directs stories she believes must be told.
Winner of numerous awards for her independent work, including two CINE Golden Eagles, Barash has also had several journalism fellowships, which allowed her to study and teach journalism internationally.
Her most recent work includes the feature-length documentary "The AIDS Chronicles – Here to Represent" which is screening at film festivals around the world and is making a significant contribution to the understanding of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the urban African American population.
She is currently working on the Internet video series, "NO RULES: The Life and Times of Joe Strain"
