Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

Michael Rossi

Part-time Faculty, Film

Profile

Michael Rossi has spent the last nineteen years聽creating national programs聽for public television. In 2012, Rossi received an Emmy Award for his work as Coordinating Producer of the children's engineering series DESIGN SQUAD. His聽production credits for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE include:聽Building the聽Alaska Highway,听The Gold Rush聽(2007 Erik Barnouw Award),听We 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 2011聽Student Freedom;聽produced a series of short films for聽Freedom Summer @ 50,聽profiling participants of the 1964 Freedom Summer project in Mississippi; and made聽a series of short films for聽The Boys of '36,听profiling聽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 at聽.

Selected Films

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

Selected Television Series

Stories from the Stage, for PBS

Design Squad, for PBS

Selected Awards

Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches in a Daytime Children Series, Design Squad Nation, 2012

Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Children Series, Design Squad, 2010

Press


The 艾可直播 Globe, 2017


Los Angeles Times, 2017

WNET/Thirteen,听2017


NY1, "In Transit," 2017


WGTD聽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

Selected Film Festivals/Panels/Lectures

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, 艾可直播, MA

艾可直播 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

艾可直播 College Phi Alpha Theta, panel speaker, 2009-2011, Chestnut Hill, MA

Daguerreian Society Annual Symposium 2006, speaker, Pittsburgh, PA