Elliat Graney-SAUCKE
Elliat Graney-Saucke is a white queer femme documentary filmmaker, cultural organizer and educator. Since 2000, Elliat has directed/produced films internationally in the US, Germany, Denmark, the UK, Poland, Serbia, Italy, Spain, Canada and Israel/Palestine. Currently completing her/their second feature documentary, “Boys on the Inside” is about three Latinx ‘boys’ who have experienced incarceration in women’s prisons. “The Resilience of King Khazm,’ now streaming on the EVRGRN Chanel, was produced in 2018 through SIFF/WA Filmworks and is about Khazm, a wheelchair bound artist who is head of Seattle’s 206 Zulu Hip Hop crew and the stories of his grandfather in Japanese internment camps. Currently in production is a short documentary, with the working title “Safta,” about a holocaust survivor and her close and complex relationship to her granddaughter. Elliat has taught and curated multiple programs on the ethics of documentary film as Executive Director of Seattle Documentary Association (2019- 2020), including the weekend retreat program for DocForest 2019 (Wenatchee traditional land), as well as with the NW Film Forum. After completing an NEA Our Town oral history project for the National Performance Network (New Orleans) in 2018, Elliat went on to help develop the Arts Leadership training program for the Certified Creative Districts of the Washington State Arts Commission. While based in Berlin, Germany, 2009-2015, Elliat produced videos, performed, organized international queer festivals and cultural heritage conferences, as well as obtaining an MA in World Heritage Studies. Elliat has produced over 20 short films and one completed feature, screening work in 13 countries.