Tracy Ann Graziano

t@moonfirefilms.com

Tracy Graziano owns Moonfire Film Productions in Erie, PA. Moonfire Film Productions
(MFP) is a science, wildlife and natural history documentary film company that is
dedicated to accurate science communication. MFP recently completed a zebra mussel
control training film for Pennsylvania Sea Grant, an avian documentary for the Presque
Isle Audubon Society, and four public service announcements for the Northwestern
Pennsylvania County Conservation Districts. The Sea Grant film will help recruit and
train volunteers for their Monitoring Network, which keeps track of the invasive mussel
in Pennsylvania’s waterways. “Wings, Sand & Song” is a film on the habitats and birds at
Presque Isle State Park, and premiered at the 2008 Migratory Bird Festival at the Tom
Ridge Environmental Center at Presque Isle. The Conservation District PSA’s will air on
WJET, the local ABC affiliate. They will inform the public on a different conservation
issue each week. MFP is currently contracted to operate the Big Green Screen at the Tom
Ridge Environmental Center. Tracy also assisted the Science North film crew at Presque
Isle State Park for the “Mysteries of the Great Lakes” IMAX film, which premiered in
May of 2008. She is currently active on the Presque Isle Partnership Environmental
Research Committee, the Presque Isle Audubon Society Board of Trustees, and the 32o
Masonic Learning Center for Children Board of Governors. Tracy has also completed a
documentary for the Regional Science Consortium, which plays on a continuous loop at
the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Tracy Graziano holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History
Filmmaking from Montana State University. She completed two films for the National
Science Foundation’s EPSCoR program, and worked on her thesis film in Yellowstone
National Park, Algonquin Provincial Park, and Presque Isle State Park. Presque Isle State
Park has committed to using the film in the Tom Ridge Environmental Center at Presque
Isle. Tracy was awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and the American
Wildlife Research Foundation for her thesis film. She also worked with Batwin & Robin
Productions on the Presque Isle Orientation Film as a local guide and expert to the park.
In addition, Tracy also recorded sound for the film production. Tracy was a teaching
assistant for Cell Biology at Montana State University for three semesters.

Tracy graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in December of 2000 with
degrees in Environmental Science-Biology and Applied Media Arts-Cinematography.
Tracy acted as an intern supervisor at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. Here,
she developed and implemented a plan for 2000 and 2001 to control invasive plant
species. She was awarded the Pennsylvania Biology Student of the Year by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists and a recipient of the Franks G.
Brooks Award from Beta Beta Beta (BBB) for undergraduate scientific research on
coyotes. She was an Associate Member in BBB, a national biological honors society.
Tracy has given many lectures about her research on Canis latrans for DCNR
Administration and Staff, visiting groups to Presque Isle State Park, three BBB meetings.
The Stull Interpretive Center at Presque Isle has also hosted Tracy as a speaker six times
for public lectures. She has twice presented her graduate work at Presque Isle’s
Environmental Research Symposium, as a lecturer for the Visiting Scientist Series at
Presque Isle, at Penn State – The Behrend College, and three times as a guest speaker at
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

She served two and one-half years as the Scholar-In-Residence on the Science,
Management, Technology and Business Living and Learning floor on Edinboro campus.
Based on her field observations at Presque Isle, Tracy produced a twenty-minute video on
Canis latrans at Presque Isle. From October 2000 to July 2001, park staff, Edinboro and
Gannon Faculty and students assisted Tracy in trapping and radio collaring two coyotes
on Presque Isle. She received a grant from the Presque Isle Partnership to complete this
work on C. latrans, a newcomer to the park. This project was designed to involve students
and faculty of Edinboro and Gannon; and strengthen the working relationship with
surrounding universities and Presque Isle. Carrie Duafala, a graduate student at Edinboro
University, is currently in the process of revamping Tracy’s scientific research on coyotes
at Presque Isle State Park.

Her undergraduate courses included biology and geology, ornithology, ecology,
mammalogy, genetics, organic evolution, botany, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and
an independent study in biology. As a film student, she enrolled in four film courses,
basic courses in art, drawing, painting, four photography courses, ceramics, and many art
history courses. Tracy attended a course at the International Wildlife Film Festival with
Jeffery Boswall in April of 2000 where she earned credits toward her film degree.

Tracy’s major goal in film production is to educate about the importance of biodiversity
and environmental ethics. Her interests include hiking, camping, birding, reading, travel,
culture, and religion.

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
July 2007 NW Pennsylvania Conservation Districts $2,000 Film Project Grant
June 2007 Presque Isle Audubon Society $17,500 Film Project Grant
June 2007 Regional Science Consortium / DCNR $5,000 Film Project Grant
May 2007 Regional Science Consortium / $10,000 Film Project Grant PA Sea Grant
June 2006 Regional Science Consortium / DCNR $7,000 Film Project Grant
June 2005 Regional Science Consortium / DCNR $10,000 Film Project Grant
January 2005 Montana State University $3,000 Departmental Scholarship
August 2003 Montana State University $2,000 College of Graduate Studies Scholarship
June 2003 Montana State University $473 Departmental Scholarship
May 2003 American Wildlife Research Foundation $2,000 Thesis film grant
January 2003 Montana State University $2,837 Scholarship
August 2002 Montana State University $2,917 Scholarship
August 2002 MT National Science Foundation EPSCoR $10,000 Thesis film grant
January 2002 Montana State University $3,232 Discovery Channel Scholarship
August 2001 Montana State University $1,500 Departmental Scholarship
January 2001 ADVEST, Inc. $1,000 graduate school scholarship
January 2000 Presque Isle Partnership $1,000 coyote research

AWARDS
Nov 2006 American Conservation Film Festival “Chasing Coyotes” official selection
May 2006 International Wildlife Film Festival “Spirit Dog” Honorable Mention in

Animal Behavior
April 2006 Reel Women International Film Festival “Chasing Coyotes” official selection
July 2005 Michael Brinkman Award Fellowship to attend the Jackson Hole

Wildlife Film Festival
Feb 2004 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival “Japan’s Lost Wolves” official selection
June 2003 Science & Natural History Film Festival Best Science Film, 2nd Place
May 2000 Beta Beta Beta (BBB) Frank G. Brooks Award for Scientific Research
2000 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists (CPUB)

Biology Student of the Year

LECTURES
November 2006 Edinboro University, Environmental Biology Guest Speaker
November 2005 Penn State Erie – The Behrend College, Field Zoology Guest Speaker
October 2005 Regional Science Consortium Annual Environmental Symposium
October 2005 Edinboro University, Environmental Biology Guest Speaker
Sept 2005 Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Presque Isle State Park Visiting Scientist Series
November 2004 Edinboro University, Environmental Biology Guest Speaker
August 2004 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Regional Research Consortium
August 2003 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Public Lecture
August 2003 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Regional Research Consortium
2002 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Public Lecture
2001 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Public Lecture
2001 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Public Lecture
2001 Stull Interpretive Center, Presque Isle State Park Management & Maintenance Staff
2001 Albion, PA, Beta Beta Beta Induction Ceremony Guest Speaker
2000 Gannon University Tri State Undergraduate Science Research Competition
2000 Edinboro University Beta Beta Beta Induction Ceremony Keynote Speaker
October 2004 Edinboro University Environmental Biology course Guest Speaker
October 2003 Edinboro University Environmental Biology course Guest Speaker
2000 Moraine State Park, Franklin, PA DCNR Region 3 Meeting

FILM CREDITS

Wings, Sand & Song 70 min; 2008 Migratory Bird Festival
May 2008 Moonfire Film Productions, Erie, PA
Writer, director, camera, editor

Conservation District PSAs 4 x 15 seconds;WJET Green Tip of the Week
April 2008 Moonfire Film Productions, Erie, PA
Co-writer, director, camera, editor

Stemming the Tide 20 min; 2007 PA Zebra Mussel Summit
November 2007 Moonfire Film Proudctions
Writer, director, camera, editor

The Regional Science Consortium 8 min
Tom Ridge Environmental Center
May 2006 Moonfire Film Productions, Erie, PA
Writer, director, camera, editor

June 2005 Batwin & Robin Productions, New York, NY Presque Isle Orientation film 10 min
Production Assistant, Soundperson, local guide Tom Ridge Environmental Center

May 2005 Moonfire Film Productions, Erie, PA Spirit Dog 57 min
Writer, director, camera, editor National Park Service
Presque Isle State Park
Algonquin Provincial Park

May 2005 Moonfire Film Productions, Erie, PA Chasing Coyotes 13 min
Writer, director, camera, editor
July 2004 MT EPSCoR On The Frontier 60 min
Final editor MT PBS
Dec 2003 MT NSF EPSCoR Japan’s Lost Wolves 7 min
Writer, director, camera, editor MT PBS
August 2002 MT National Science Foundation EPSCoR EPSCoR Promo 5 min
Camera, sound, editor National Science Foundation
April 2002 Montana State University Portrait of a Montana Artist 11 min
camera
1999 Coyotes at Presque Isle 20 min
Writer, director, camera, sound, editor
1998 Soal 2 min
Writer, director, camera, sound, editor
SPECIAL COURSES

July 2001 Animal Handling Techniques Mark Johnson, DVM, course instructor
USFWS - NCTC Shepherdstown, West Virginia

April 2000 Wildlife Filmmaking Jeffery Boswall, course instructor
International Wildlife Film Festival Missoula, Montana State University

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
May 2008 – current Presque Isle Audubon Society Board of Trustees – Program Coordinator
July 2007 – current Presque Isle Partnership Environmental Research Committee
January 2007 - current “TREC on the Wild Side” Wildlife Film Festival Coordinator, Erie, PA
September 2005, 2003, 2001 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Jackson Hole, WY
April 2003 International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, MT
July 2003 Discover Presque Isle, Erie, PA
April 2002 International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, MT
September 2001 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Jackson Hole, WY
July 2001 Discover Presque Isle, PA
July 2000 Discover Presque Isle, PA
1986-89 Asbury Woods Nature Center, Erie PA

RESEARCH
2000-1 Presque Isle Partnership Invasive Plant Program Director, Erie, PA
1999-01 Coyote tracking, trapping and radio telemetry, Presque Isle State Park, Erie, PA

TEACHING POSITIONS
Spring 2002-Spring 2003 Cell Biology Lab Instructor Montana State University- Bozeman
Carol Johnson, Associate Professor