Alan Catello Grazioso

Alan Catello Grazioso is an American online marketer, filmmaker, and nonfiction television producer, writer, director, and editor. Grazioso served as a content producer for three PBS Kids television series including Postcards from Buster for which he was nominated for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children Series.[2] His notable 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] On May 12, 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 that went viral and currently has over 6.4 million views on AJ+'s Facebook page.[6] Alan is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston.[7] In 2017 he produced a series of 23 videos for Harvard ManageMentor, a subscriber-based online learning platform for global Fortune 500 companies owned and distributed by Harvard Business Publishing wholly owned non-profit subsidiary of Harvard University. He's currently a full-time staffer at Harvard Business School as an interactive producer creating content (digital media case studies) in close partnership with HBS faculty and their research teams. Grazioso sits on the advisory boards of several organizations. He regularly consults startups as well as produces projects on-location internationally and domestically.

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)
OccupationFilmmaker, TV & Online Producer, Marketer, Writer, Director and Editor
Years active1989–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1999)​
Websitehttps://www.alan-grazioso.com

Background

Alan grew up in and around New Haven, Connecticut in a blue-collar Italian-America family. His father, Catello F. "Cal" Grazioso, has been a union crane operator for the past 55 years with Local 478 in Connecticut. His mother, Delores "Dee" Grazioso, worked as an administrator for the Yale School of Medicine for over 25 years. He attended Notre Dame High School (West Haven, Connecticut) where he played varsity baseball, served as class treasurer and yearbook photographer before graduating in 1987.[8] During Grazioso's Sophomore year at Northeastern University he had the opportunity to undertake a full-time six-month "co-op" position at NPR (National Public Radio) in Washington, DC.[9] While at NPR Grazioso worked closely with public radio personality Liane Hansen and interacted with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, and Noah Adams for as he recalls "an experience that just rocked my world."[1]

His other notable credits include video editor of the video companion of the 2008 Thompson Learning "Interviewing in Action in a Multicultural World" textbook [10] as well as producer of the Massachusetts Department of Early Educational and Care funded "Resources for Early Learners" public online site created by the WGBH Educational Foundation.[11] In 2010, Grazioso's documentary work has been featured on Link TV's ViewChange.org website,[12][13][14] a site “to help raise awareness of global development issues" funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[15][16] Grazioso served as senior editor on the Boston Red Sox 2011 season opening television commercial "We Will Not Rest: Base Runner" which featured Jacoby Ellsbury and premiered in March 2011 on ESPN.[17]

Awards and nominations
  1. (Won) Webby Award Honoree, 2016 - Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken - Oxfam America[4][18]
  2. (Won) Hatch Award, 2011 - Mass Mentoring "Shawn & Quantel"[19]
  3. (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2009 - Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman - PBS Kids
  4. (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2008 - Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids[2]
  5. (Won) Parents' Choice Award, 2008 - Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids[20]
  6. (Won) Daytime Emmy Award, 2006 - ZOOM - PBS Kids
  7. (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2005 - ZOOM - PBS Kids
  8. (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2004 - ZOOM - PBS Kids
  9. (Nominated) Daytime Emmy Award, 2003 - ZOOM - PBS Kids

Interactive App Credits
  1. Puppy Coach 101 (Apple App Store - active) - Teaches new puppy owners practical training tips, features a video-based approach [21]
  2. Seafood Chef (currently in post-production, launching in Apple App Store in winter of 2020) - features Boston Chef Rich Garcia cooking sustainable seafood dishes [22]

Selected filmography

Executive Producer/Director (online media)
  1. Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken (video for (Interactive website) - Oxfam America[23]
  2. Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Chicken (video for (online PSA) - Oxfam America[24]
  3. "One Tick Bite Away from Lyme Disease" - for Global Lyme Alliance - narrated by Steve Kroft, the longtime correspondent for CBS News' 60 Minutes.[25]
  4. "Lyme is Real" - for Global Lyme Alliance - narrated by Steve Kroft[26]
  5. Goats: A Gift in Action in East Africa[27]
  6. Healthy Well: Clean Water Changing Lives in El Salvador[28]
  7. Climate Change Hardest Hit: Empowered Women of Ethiopia[29]

Producer (television series)
  1. Postcards from Buster - PBS Kids
  2. Fetch with Ruff Ruffman- PBS Kids
  3. ZOOM - PBS Kids
  4. What's Your 20? - Travel Channel (pilot)[30]
  5. Reunite Road Trip - Travel Channel (pilot)[31]

Producer (Harvard Business School - HBS - case studies)
  1. multimedia case - Professors Charles Wang and Ethan Rouen, completed April 2020. Filmed in New York City and Boston.
  2. multimedia case - Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, completed December 2019. Filmed in Ghana, West Africa.
  3. video case - Professor Francesca Gino and Paul Green, completed January 2020. Filmed in Mexico.
  4. multimedia case - Professors Paul Healy and Susanna Gallini, HBS MENA Research Center Executive Director Esel Cekin, completed November 2018. Filmed in New York City and Boston.
  5. case supplement - Professors Francesca Gino and Paul Green, completed December 2018. Filmed in Boston & Detroit.
  6. case supplement - "Engineering Company Culture at Zaimella Ecuador." Professors Francesca Gary Pisano, published September 2019. Harvard Business School Case # 920-015 [32]
  7. case supplement - "Cambridge Franchise Partners" Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, published July 2018.[33]
  8. case supplement - "Capitol Digital" Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, published July 2018.[34]

Line Producer (television)
  1. Journey to 10,000 BC - History Channel

Senior Editor (advertising)
  1. We Won't Rest (TV Spot) - for the Boston Red Sox - featuring Jacoby Ellsbury and Carl Crawford, spot directed by John Huet[17]

Miscellaneous Crew (feature films - major studios)
  1. The Proposition (feature film] - starring Kenneth Branagh, Madeline Stow and William Hurt
  2. Before and After (feature film) - directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson and Alfred Molina

References
  1. "Documenting Desperation". northeastern.edu. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  2. http://cdn.emmyonline.org/day_35th_program_creative.pdf
  3. "Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken".
  4. "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. "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6611651444112183297/
  8. https://mediafiles01.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/443/misc/misc_161211.pdf
  9. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alangrazioso
  10. Murphy, Bianca; Dillon, Carolyn (10 May 2007). Interviewing in Action in a Multicultural World. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9780495095163 – via Google Books.
  11. "Credits: Resources for Early Learning".
  12. "Goats: A Gift in Action Helping Women in East Africa".
  13. "Healthy Well: Clean Water Changing Lives in El Salvador".
  14. "Climate Change Hardest Hit: Empowered Women of Ethiopia".
  15. Ingram, Mathew (26 February 2010). "LinkTV Building a YouTube for Social Change".
  16. "Link TV to Launch ViewChange.org - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation".
  17. "The 2011 Boston Red Sox 25 Man Roster". wn.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  18. "Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken". oxfamamerica.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  19. "2011 Hatch Awards Book". issuu.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  20. http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=21747&StepNum=1&award=aw
  21. "Puppy Coach 101 on the App Store". apple.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  22. "Meet: Chef Rich Garcia". wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  23. "Lives on the Line: The high human cost of chicken". oxfamamerica.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  24. Oxfam America (27 October 2015). "Lives on the Line: The High Human Cost of Chicken". Retrieved 6 January 2017 – via YouTube.
  25. "One Tick Bite Away from Lyme Disease - Global Lyme Alliance". globallymealliance.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  26. "Lyme is real, with more than 329,000 new cases in 2015 alone. - Global Lyme Alliance". globallymealliance.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  27. "Goats: A Gift in Action Helping Women in East Africa". viewchange.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  28. "Healthy Well: Clean Water Changing Lives in El Salvador". viewchange.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  29. "Climate Change Hardest Hit: Empowered Women of Ethiopia". viewchange.org. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  30. "**4 min. version** WHAT'S YOUR 20 Sizzle Reel (production company: Grazioso Pictures - agent: Ra Kumar, N.S. Bienstock)". vimeo.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  31. "TRAVEL CHANNEL: "Reunite Road Trip" Sizzle Reel (commissioned by Travel Channel produced by Grazioso Pictures)". vimeo.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  32. "HBS Case Study".
  33. "HBS Case Study".
  34. "HBS Case Study".
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