Education
Yale University; Harvard Law School.
director editor film producer cinematographer
Yale University; Harvard Law School.
In 2011 he directed Page One: Inside the New York Times which was nominated for two News & Documentary Emmys and a 2011 Critics" Choice Award for Best Documentary. The film was co-distributed by Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media and grossed over $1 million at the domestic box office. His work has appeared on the History Channel, Sundance Channel, Music Television Networks and Home Box Office, including Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven which premiered on Home Box Office in 2008.
In 2013 Rossi was one of the first directors to be commissioned by Cable News Network to develop feature-length documentaries for theatrical and television distribution by Cable News Network, including his next film about the transformation of higher education.
The film, Ivory Tower, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically distributed in 2014 by Samuel Goldwyn and Participant Media. After airing on Cable News Network, the film was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy for outstanding business and economic reporting.
In 2015 Rossi produced Thought Crimes, an Home Box Office documentary about the case of the Cannibal Cop that examines the First Amendment implications of policing communication in fantasy forums online. Rossi graduated magna cum laude from Yale College where he served as the editor in chief of the Yale Literary Magazine.
In 1998 he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.
After two years as an associate in mergers and acquisitions at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom Limited Liability Partnership in New York, Rossi went on to pursue a career as a filmmaker. Often Rossi’s films have to do with something that has been an issue in his life. He makes his movies to find out an answer, or many answers to the broad issue that the movie is focused on.
Each film let’s the subjects do all of the talking and storytelling.
He simply just is there to film and then whatever happens, happens (Boltin). His style has not changed much since he began making films just a little over ten years ago.
