Biography

Chad Grochowski is an award-winning director, cameraman and sound mixer for documentary film and TV with over two decades of experience in both the US and internationally.

Beginning with Tom Shepard's Sundance Audience Award winning film, 'Scouts Honor' in 2001, up through to Morgan Spurlock's reality/docu-series, 30 Days, in 2006 - Chad has served as location sound mixer for dozens of documentaries.

As a DP/Cameraman, Chad has filmed for broadcasters such as MTV, the Learning Channel, PBS, Bloomberg, Shanghai Media Group, as well as for his own documentaries, All Men Are Sons in 2002 and The ScrapHouse in 2005 (broadcast internationally by National Geographic TV).

While living in Shanghai from 2010-14, he directed two seasons of the bi-lingual Chinese version of The Amazing Race: China Rush for Disney and Shanghai Media Group, winning an award for best adaptation of a foreign format at the Asian Television Awards in 2012. Following on that success, he and his company, Boxtop Studios, were chosen to co-produce the Mandarin Chinese version of the global hit, Master Chef (Dingjí Chúshi), with Dragon TV and Shine UK, providing production and post production support.

From 2015-2018, he directed a series of projects for Disney in China and Japan.

Grochowski lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chad Grochowski