Michael Rossi is an independent producer of documentary film and non-fiction television based in Brooklyn, NY. He has spent the last twelve years producing, directing, shooting, and editing on national programs for public television. Most recently, Rossi worked on The Silence, a thirty-minute documentary for Frontline. He also served as Coordinating Producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning engineering series Design Squad and spearheaded the development and production of a new spin-off series, Design Squad Nation, which premiered nationally on PBS in January 2011. His production credits for American Experience include: Building the Alaska Highway, The Gold Rush (winner of the 2007 Erik Barnouw Award), and We Shall Remain, a five-part television series and multimedia project on Native American history. He also worked on The War That Made America, a four-hour PBS series about the French and Indian War. Rossi's career at PBS began in the Educational Programming department at WGBH Boston, and he has done a variety of freelance production work on documentaries, feature films, television shows, music videos, and commercials. Rossi completed the B.A./M.A. program in U.S. History at Boston College, where he has guest-lectured for the Black Studies course Eyes on the Prize. Currently, Rossi is producing and directing The Master Palindromist, the story of Barry Duncan, a self-proclaimed master of reversibility.