Alan Catello Grazioso

Alan Catello Grazioso
Grazioso in Hong Kong in 2015
Born
Alan Catello Grazioso

New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityItalian-American
Alma materNortheastern University,[1]
Notre Dame High School (West Haven, Connecticut)
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, producer
Years active1989–present
Spouse
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(m. 1999)​
Websitewww.alan-grazioso.com

Alan Catello Grazioso is an American non-fiction filmmaker, multimedia and online content producer. Grazioso created original content for three PBS Kids television series including Zoom, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman and Postcards from Buster, the last of which he was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series.[2] Grazioso's online video credits include "Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken", a web-based interactive project funded and published by Oxfam America[3] which received a 2016 Webby Award Honoree achievement.[4] In 2016, The Washington Post ran a two-minute online short film produced by Grazioso for Oxfam's "Lives on the Line" campaign[5] and current affairs website AJ+ ran a separate social media targeted version.[6]

Grazioso graduated from Northeastern University in Boston.[1] In 2017, he oversaw production of a series of video assets for Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) ManageMentor, a subscriber-based online learning platform for global Fortune 500 companies. Grazioso was staff member of Harvard Business School (HBS), responsible for multimedia production of curriculum-focused content and overseas on-location production internationally and domestically in close partnership with HBS faculty. Grazioso also co-conceived of the podcast series "HBS Staff Stories" in collaboration with the leadership and content teams in the HBS Dean's Office and Marketing and Communications Department.[7] Grazioso currently is the executive producer of multimedia on the Communications team at Harvard Radcliffe Institute (HRI), which is part of Harvard University.[8] In April 2022, the HRI Communications group led the digital launch of the Harvard & Legacy of Slavery website, which was anchored at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and included a report, film, articles, and a mobile-based app tour.[9] Grazioso served as the executive producer of the mobile-based tour.[10] In April 2023, Grazioso and his team at Radcliffe were nominated for three Webby Awards.[11] In May 2023, Grazioso's video work featuring Radcliffe Fellow Isabel Galleymore was spotlighted on the landing page of Harvard.edu, the main website of Harvard University during Climate Change Action Week.[12]. In September of 2024, Grazioso helped launch a new multimedia exhibit in Radcliffe Yard and online entitled "Radcliffe Moments," which included nine kiosks of full size head-to-toe portraits, photographed in three countries, of Radcliffe-connected fellows, students, and scholars. The exhibit included a variety of audio and video of which Grazioso produced. [13]

Background

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Grazioso grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Cal Grazioso, was a union crane operator with Local 478 in Connecticut. His mother, Dee Grazioso, was an administrator for the Yale School of Medicine for over 25 years. He attended Notre Dame High School where he played varsity baseball, served as class treasurer and yearbook photographer before graduating in 1987.[14] During Grazioso's sophomore year at Northeastern University, he took a full-time six-month "co-op" position at NPR in Washington, DC.[1]

His other credits include video editor of the video companion of a 2008 Thompson Learning textbook,[15] as well as producer of the "Resources for Early Learners" public online site created by the WGBH Educational Foundation.[16]

Awards and nominations

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  • (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2003 – ZOOM – PBS Kids
  • (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2004 – ZOOM – PBS Kids
  • (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2005 – ZOOM – PBS Kids
  • (Won) Daytime Emmy Award, 2006 – ZOOM – PBS Kids
  • (Won) Parents' Choice Award, 2008 – Postcards from Buster – PBS Kids[17]
  • (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2008 – Postcards from Buster – PBS Kids[2]
  • (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2009 – Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman – PBS Kids
  • (Won) Hatch Award, 2011 – Mass Mentoring "Shawn & Quantel"[18]
  • (Won) Webby Award Honoree, 2016 – Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken – Oxfam America[4][19]
  • (Won) Telly Award (Silver), 2021 – (Harvard Business School) Peak Investment Capital: Changing the Narrative of West Africa[20]
  • (Honoree) Webby Award, 2023 – (Harvard Radcliffe Institute) Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Film: Video/Public Service & Activism[21]
  • (Nominated) Webby Award, 2023 – (Harvard Radcliffe Institute) Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Tour Experience: Apps, dApps & Software/Public Service & Activism[22]
  • (Nominated) Webby Award, 2023 – (Harvard Radcliffe Institute) Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Websites and Mobile Sites/Best Individual Editorial Feature - Ind/Brand/Org[23]
  • (Nominated) Webby Award, 2023 – (Harvard Radcliffe Institute) Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Websites and Mobile Sites/School or University[23]

Selected filmography & podcast credits

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Executive Producer & Co-host

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Field Producer

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  • Postcards from Buster – PBS Kids (1 episode)[2]
  • Fetch with Ruff Ruffman PBS Kids (9 segments, 1 full episode)

Field Producer/Editor

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  • ZOOM – PBS Kids (11 segments)

Executive Producer/Director

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  • What's Your 20? – Travel Channel (pilot)[25]
  • Reunite Road Trip – Travel Channel (pilot)[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Documenting Desperation". northeastern.edu. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "35th Program Creative" (PDF). emmyonline.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  3. ^ "Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken". 23 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken - The Webby Awards".
  5. ^ "Lives on the Line: The High Human Cost of Chicken". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  6. ^ "AJ+ - These American factory workers have to wear diapers... - Facebook". facebook.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Harvard Business School Newsroom Article". 16 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Contact". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Harvard's Walking Tour App Highlights Overlooked History". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Credits & Bios -". legacyofslavery.stqry.app. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  11. ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Cuteness Is in the Eye of the Beholder". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Radcliffe Moments". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  14. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2016-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ Murphy, Bianca; Dillon, Carolyn (10 May 2007). Interviewing in Action in a Multicultural World. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9780495095163 – via Google Books.
  16. ^ "Credits: Resources for Early Learning".
  17. ^ "Postcards from Buster".
  18. ^ "2011 Hatch Awards Book". issuu.com. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  19. ^ "Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken". oxfamamerica.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  20. ^ "Telly Awards". Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  21. ^ "Webby Awards". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  22. ^ "Webby Awards". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  23. ^ a b "Webby Awards". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  24. ^ "HARVARD RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE: "Kindness—It's Good for You!"". radcliffe.harvard.edu. 18 April 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  25. ^ "**4 min. version** WHAT'S YOUR 20 Sizzle Reel (production company: Grazioso Pictures - agent: Ra Kumar, N.S. Bienstock)". vimeo.com. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  26. ^ "TRAVEL CHANNEL: "Reunite Road Trip" Sizzle Reel (commissioned by Travel Channel produced by Grazioso Pictures)". vimeo.com. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
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