Chad Grochowski
- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Chad Grochowski is an Award-winning Director, Producer and DP for film and television productions with over two decades of experience helping broadcasters and production companies realize programs and series in both the US and Asia.
During that time he has developed a comprehensive knowledge of the production industry and partnered with major broadcasters, branding firms, and companies to produce their content, including helping SMG win an award at the Asian Television Awards for the Disney licensed reality series, The Amazing Race: China Rush, which he directed in China.
Cutting his teeth in the mid-nineties in the sound and camera departments with San Francisco Bay Area documentary filmmakers, by the 2000s he began co-producing feature documentary projects with collaborators and was soon airing his first feature documentary, All Men Are Sons, on PBS, in 2002, followed by The ScrapHouse, in 2005, on National Geographic TV.
In 2010, while living in Shanghai, he was hired first as AD and then as Director for the international reality series, The Amazing Race: China Rush (Chongcì! Zhongguó) (Disney/SMG). Grochowski directed two seasons of the show which won the award for best adaptation of a foreign format at the Asian Television Awards in 2012.
Following on that successful collaboration with SMG, he provided production and post-production resources and management for Shine Group's international hit series, MasterChef (Dingjí Chúshi), which went on to be nominated for an International Emmy Award. His production company, Boxtop Studio, remained a top post-production facility in Shanghai for reality TV style programming for the next several years, providing facilities and editing staff for multiple seasons of The Secret Millionaire and Super Nanny (in Mandarin).
Grochowski lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
During that time he has developed a comprehensive knowledge of the production industry and partnered with major broadcasters, branding firms, and companies to produce their content, including helping SMG win an award at the Asian Television Awards for the Disney licensed reality series, The Amazing Race: China Rush, which he directed in China.
Cutting his teeth in the mid-nineties in the sound and camera departments with San Francisco Bay Area documentary filmmakers, by the 2000s he began co-producing feature documentary projects with collaborators and was soon airing his first feature documentary, All Men Are Sons, on PBS, in 2002, followed by The ScrapHouse, in 2005, on National Geographic TV.
In 2010, while living in Shanghai, he was hired first as AD and then as Director for the international reality series, The Amazing Race: China Rush (Chongcì! Zhongguó) (Disney/SMG). Grochowski directed two seasons of the show which won the award for best adaptation of a foreign format at the Asian Television Awards in 2012.
Following on that successful collaboration with SMG, he provided production and post-production resources and management for Shine Group's international hit series, MasterChef (Dingjí Chúshi), which went on to be nominated for an International Emmy Award. His production company, Boxtop Studio, remained a top post-production facility in Shanghai for reality TV style programming for the next several years, providing facilities and editing staff for multiple seasons of The Secret Millionaire and Super Nanny (in Mandarin).
Grochowski lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.