William Gazecki

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William Gazecki is a documentary filmmaker and sound mixer best known for his Academy Award-nominated film Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997). The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was also awarded the International Documentary Association's Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award and won awards at both the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival.[1]

Early projects include the ten-part Technical Remote Viewing. His Natural Solutions produced for PBS in 1993, impacted then-pending legislation attempting to limit public access to vitamins and health food supplements. His film Reckless Indifference (2000), about a convicted felon named Brandon Hein, won a Golden Satellite Award from the International Press Academy.

Gazecki's Crop Circles: Quest for Truth (2002), released theatrically, is an examination of the mysterious, worldwide crop circle phenomenon. The film won Best Documentary at the Thomas Edison Film Festival. His next release, Invisible Ballots (2004), presented a critical examination of the issues surrounding electronic voting technology.

He also partnered with LeVar Burton on a series for PBS entitled The Science of Peace, and recently completed Future by Design, a feature-length profile of the Florida futurist Jacque Fresco, a peer of Buckminster Fuller and Albert Einstein. In 2006, he was completing A Thousand Faces: The History of the Screen Actors Guild for the SAG Foundation.

Gazecki came to documentary filmmaking in 1991 after a multiple Emmy Award-winning career in sound mixing for television, film, and record production on such productions as The Rose, Hill Street Blues, and St. Elsewhere (for which he was a co-recipient of an Emmy award for sound mixing in 1986).[2] Other recognition for excellence in sound mixing included honors from both the Cinema Audio Society and the Society of Motion Picture Sound Editors, and several Gold and Platinum albums.

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