Scott Gracheff

Scott Gracheff is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker focusing on diverse voices seldom heard in the mainstream media. Most recently, he directed the documentary, "The Rugby Player", winner of multiple festival awards including the HBO Audience Award for Best Documentary from The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The film tells the story of Mark Bingham, one of the passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11, and his mother, Alice Hoagland, a former United flight attendant. For over 10 years, Scott was a staff Director-Producer for PBS and created numerous documentaries. In 2007 he directed "Soldados" which aired along with "The War", Ken Burn's landmark series about WWII. The documentary highlights the experience of Latino WWII soldiers, and received a 2008 Emmy Award Nomination. Additional work for PBS includes the award winning "Dave Tatsuno, Movies & Memories", which uncovers the story of a man who smuggled his 8mm film camera into a Japanese internment camp and secretly filmed his family's 3-year life behind barbed wire. In 2003, he directed "Return To The Valley", a documentary exploring the Japanese American experience after WWII which won a 2004 Emmy Award. Scott is co-producer on the new documentary, "Out In The Night", exploring an incident where four young African American women were violently threatened on the street, defended themselves and were then convicted in the court and media as a 'gang of killer lesbians'. The film has won over a dozen Jury and Audience awards on the festival circuit. For the last 2 years, Scott has been directing a documentary about NYC artist and performer Joe Coleman. Both lauded and vilified, his artwork rarely produces passive responses from the audience. Chronicling 3 years in the life of the artist, the film documents Coleman creating his largest painting ever.