Biography
Emmy-winning New York-based filmmaker and member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Grossberg is best known for the award-winning feature-length documentary, A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home, which he wrote, produced and directed and executive producing the PBS series Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan. The latter is a half-hour interview series airing nationally on PBS that inspires, educates and entertains. Hosted by four-time New York Times bestselling author Kelly Corrigan, the show features 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 of the same name 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 (AMC's The Making of the Mob). He 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. It won the Neapolitan Award at the Naples International Film Festival, the Spirit of the Independent Awards at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, the Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival, and a Chris Award Bronze Plaque at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival. A Bridge Life premiered on television on the fifth anniversary of the disaster and is currently available on DVD and online via iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon among other digital outlets.
Prior to that, Grossberg wrote, produced and directed the groundbreaking short, Betrayed, the first narrative film to shoot on the now ubiquitous Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera. The film stars Seth Gilliam (The Walking Dead, The Wire), Cara Buono (Stranger Things, The Sopranos) and PJ Sosko (Person of Interest, The Good Wife) and premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Other notable credits include Looking For Harrison featuring John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark), Life Is Elsewhere, and his college thesis film, Nowhere Town, which won the Steven Spielberg Award for Best Student Production at Worldfest Charleston International Film Festival.
His supernatural thriller, The Ascendance, was a semifinalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' prestigious Nicholl Fellowship and a finalist for the New Century Writer Awards.
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.
