Sean Grasso

Sean Grasso is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Corvallis, Oregon. He began his career making short portraits of craftspeople, several of which became Vimeo Staff Picks, and spent more than a decade shooting documentary and commercial work around the world before turning to directing. He now makes films about rural communities and their relationship to the land. His short documentary The Butterfly Lab won the Artistic Vision Award at the 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The Caldera, co-produced with ITVS for PBS’s Independent Lens, is his first feature documentary.