Lindsey Grayzel

Lindsey Grayzel
Born
Lindsey Goodwin
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1994–present
Known forFelony arrest while filming Trans Mountain Pipeline protest

Lindsey Grayzel (also credited as Lindsey Goodwin-Grayzel) is a documentary filmmaker from Portland, Oregon. She started as an editor in 1994 then became producer and director in 1999.[1]

While filming for her documentary The Reluctant Radical,[2] she was arrested and charged with criminal sabotage and other felonies while filming a protest break-in at the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Skagit County, Washington in October 2016,[3][4] the same day as another filmmaker was arrested at a Keystone Pipeline site in Pembina County, North Dakota.[5] According to The Guardian and Filmmaker magazine, Grayzel was outside a fenced area filming the protest inside a no-trespassing area.[3][6] Filmmaker also reported that Grayzel was subjected to a strip search before being jailed.[6] Charges against Grayzel were dropped the next month.[7]

  1. ^ Doc Camp 2017 speakers, Women in Film and Television International Portland chapter, retrieved 2017-06-01
  2. ^ Emilly Prado (April 26, 2017), "Changing the World with The Reluctant Radical: They Tried to Make a Movie. Then They Got Arrested.", The Portland Mercury
  3. ^ a b Levin, Sam (2016-10-20). "Documentary film-makers face decades in prison for taping oil pipeline protests". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  4. ^ U.S. documentary filmmakers face prison for filming protest, Committee to Protect Journalists, October 20, 2016
  5. ^ Whitcomb, Dan (2016-10-14). "Celebrities rally behind filmmaker arrested in pipeline protests". Reuters. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  6. ^ a b Bernstein, Paula (2017-05-22). "A Disturbing Trend: Documentary Filmmakers Arrested for Doing Their Job". Filmmaker. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  7. ^ Gene Johnson (November 7, 2016), Charges dropped against pair who filmed pipeline protest, Associated Press – via Washington Times