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Barry Simmons
Affiliation during program: WTVF-TV, Nashville
Country Focus: Kenya
Barry Simmons is a documentary filmmaker who began shooting "Sons of Lwala" during his IRP Fellowship in 2006. The film, a story of two Kenyan brothers studying medicine in Nashville who build a clinic in their Kenyan village, has been screened across the US at film festivals and schools, and has won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Nashville Film Festival. The film had its world premiere in spring 2008 and within nine months has raised nearly $250,000 to help fund the clinic in Kenya. Among the awards Simmons has won are eight regional Emmys and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. At the time of his IRP fellowship, he was a television reporter for the CBS affiliate in Nashville, reporting on government and politics, among other topics. He began his reporting career at KSLA-TV in Shreveport, Louisiana, after graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in broadcast journalism.
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