Alan Chebot

Alan Chebot is an American film director and executive producer, born in Fall River, Massachusetts and raised in Somerset, Massachusetts.

Career

Chebot began his professional career as a producer for WBZ-TV Boston's Evening Magazine.^[1] In 1988, Chebot founded Parallax Productions, Inc., a video, multimedia and film production company that works with a diverse client base including television networks, media companies, public relations and advertising agencies, corporations, and foundations. Parallax Productions is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with crews all over the U.S. and many countries around the world. Parallax produces broadcast programming, documentaries, commercials, PSAs, and web content.

In the late 90s, he was the creator, executive producer and director of the nationally syndicated television series, The Wild Wild Web.^[2] The series ran for three seasons and was considered the television guide to the Internet. Distributed by CBS/King World, The Wild Wild Web series aired in 148 U.S. markets.

In 2006, Chebot produced, wrote, and directed Song for New Orleans.^[3][4] Broadcast nationally and distributed internationally by Hearst Television, the feature-length film chronicles the rebirth of the New Orleans music scene immediately after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and won two bronze Telly Awards.^[5]

From 2011–2015, Chebot directed and executive produced Outermost Radio, a feature-length documentary film about a community on the tip of Cape Cod and their non-profit community radio station WOMR.^[6] Outermost Radio was selected by the Provincetown International Film Festival^[7] where Chebot won The John Schlesinger Award^[8][9] and was most recently selected by the Kansas International Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, and the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival. In 2016, Outermost Radio will continue its festival tour at Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in Idyllwild, California, and at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema, London. He was featured on WBUR-FM,^[10] Chronicle (TV series),^[11] WCVB-TV and OZY Media ^[12] for the love of Community Radio displayed in the film.

Chebot has directed music videos for country artists Restless Heart,^[13] Robert Ellis Orrall,^[14] and Ronna Reeves.

Directorial biography

• Blakey’s Message, an intimate portrait of Jazz legend, Art Blakey (1981)
• AIDS Buddies: Friends for Life (1986)
• Second Chance (1987)
• Robert Ellis Orrall, A Little Bit of Her Love (1993)
• Robert Ellis Orrall, Every Day When I Get Home (1993)
• Ronna Reeves, Never Let Him See Me Cry (1993)
• Restless Heart, Baby Needs New Shoes (1994)
• Song for New Orleans (2006)
• Conversations with Carlos Watson (2007)
• 1 In 100 Million, a Salute to the American Workforce Series (2014-2015)^[15]
• Outermost Radio (2015)^[16]

Awards and honors

• Second Chance, WBZ-TV, New England Emmy Award Winner (1987)
• Song for New Orleans, Golden Telly Award Winner (2006)
• Conversations with Carlos Watson, Emmy Award Winner (2007)
• Outermost Radio, Provincetown International Film Festival Selection (2015)
• Outermost Radio, Kansas International Film Festival Selection (2015)
• Outermost Radio, The John Schlesinger Award Winner (2015)
• Outermost Radio, The Spotlight Documentary Film Awards Silver Award Winner (2015)

References

External links

• Internet Movie Database