Joshua Grossberg

Joshua Grossberg

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Biography

Emmy-winning filmmaker and member of the Producers Guild of America, Grossberg is renowned for his award-winning feature-length documentary, A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home, which he wrote, produced, and directed, as well as executive producing the PBS series Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan.

A half-hour interview series airing nationally on PBS, Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan inspires, educates, and entertains audiences, featuring insightful conversations with notable guests reflecting on their lives and the impact they can have on their worlds.

Grossberg's other notable credits include HBO's 2020 documentary special, Between the World and Me, based on the book by Ta-Nehisi Coates; the Smithsonian Channel's Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly; and PBS' Brief But Spectacular.

Grossberg served as a writer-producer on Fashion, an 8-episode docuseries for Amazon from Stephen David Entertainment, and made a documentary short series, The Hamilton Electors, focusing on electoral college reform in the wake of Donald Trump's election to the presidency.

He was also an associate producer on Diva Communications' Emmy-winning two-part documentary, The Brightness of Noon: The Intersect of Faith, Immigration and Refugees, which aired on ABC in late 2018 and 2019.

Grossberg's 2010 feature documentary directing debut, A Bridge Life, followed a Good Samaritan who rescues seven evacuees after Hurricane Katrina and won several awards, including the Neapolitan Award at the Naples International Film Festival and the Chris Award Bronze Plaque at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival.

Prior to that, Grossberg wrote, produced, and directed the groundbreaking short, Betrayed, the first narrative film to shoot on the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Grossberg is a graduate of City University of New York's Graduate film program, Northwestern University's film and creative writing program, and studied under legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog as a member of the latter's invitation-only Rogue Film School seminar.

In addition to filmmaking, Grossberg is a freelance journalist who previously worked for 13 years as senior writer for E! Online and E! News and wrote for such publications as New York Magazine, the New York Post, and SYFY Wire.

He is also an avid traveler and noted film buff who is working on finishing up his next directing effort, a documentary feature about the lost print of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, a tale he recounted in Vanity Fair and Empire.

Grossberg previously chaired the Producers Guild of America's Mentorship Committee and sits on the Documentary Committee.

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