Devlin Hall 434
Telephone: 617-552-4295
Email: michael.rossi.98@bc.edu
Documentatary Film
Documentary Film Production
Michael Rossi has spent the last nineteen yearsĀ creating national programsĀ for public television. In 2012, Rossi received an Emmy Award for his work as Coordinating Producer of the children's engineering series DESIGN SQUAD. HisĀ production credits for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE include:Ā Building theĀ Alaska Highway,ĢżThe Gold RushĀ (2007 Erik Barnouw Award),ĢżWe Shall Remain, The Rise and Fall of Penn Station, The Bombing of Wall Street, and The Race Underground. He also served as an embedded filmmaker on the 2011Ā Student Freedom;Ā produced a series of short films forĀ Freedom Summer @ 50,Ā profiling participants of the 1964 Freedom Summer project in Mississippi; and madeĀ a series of short films forĀ The Boys of '36,ĢżprofilingĀ U.S. Olympic rowers. Other credits include The Silence for FRONTLINE. Currently, Rossi is producing and directing The Master Palindromist, a feature-length documentary about Barry Duncan, a self-proclaimed master of reversibility, who is honing his skills in an effort to reassess his life, and possibly change the world. He also serves as producer, director, DP, and editor of the PBS storytelling series Stories from the Stage. His current project for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is Mr. Tornado, tracing the life of Tetsuya Theodore Fujita, a prominent Japanese-American researcher who was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of many severe weather phenomena and known for creating the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage. You can learn more about his work atĀ .
Mr. Tornado, for American Experience, Writer/Producer/Director, 2020
The Bombing of Wall Street, for American Experience, Producer, 2018
The Race Underground, for American Experience, Writer/Producer/Director, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Penn Station, for American Experience, Producer, 2014
The Silence, for Frontline, 2011
We Shall Remain: Geronimo, for American Experience, 2008
We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee, for American Experience, 2007
The Gold Rush, for American Experience, 2006
Building the Alaska Highway, 2005
Stories from the Stage, for PBS
Design Squad, for PBS
Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches in a Daytime Children Series, Design Squad Nation, 2012
Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Children Series, Design Squad, 2010
The Boston Globe, 2017
Los Angeles Times, 2017
WNET/Thirteen,Ģż2017
NY1, "In Transit," 2017
WGTDĀ Public Radio, Racine/Kenosha, Wisconsin, 2017
Newburyport Daily News, 2017
Doug Most, 2015
Film International, 2014
New York Preservation Archive Project, 2013
Believer Magazine, 2012
Panasonic, 2012
Globe Docs Film Festival, Official Selection, The Race Underground, 2016
Salem Film Fest, American Experience Presents, panelist, 2015, Salem, MA
Mass Media Expo, Documentary Series in a Digital Age, panelist, 2014, Boston, MA
Boston College, The Art and Science of Documentary Filmmaking, keynote speaker, 2014, Chestnut Hill, MA
New York Preservation Archive Project, keynote speaker, 2013, New York, NY
Boston College Phi Alpha Theta, panel speaker, 2009-2011, Chestnut Hill, MA
Daguerreian Society Annual Symposium 2006, speaker, Pittsburgh, PA