Gorman Bechard has directed and written 19 feature films including rock documentaries on The Replacements, Grant Hart, Archers of Loaf, Lydia Loveless, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, and now Wilco’s Jay Bennett. He has also directed the animal-rights films A Dog Named Gucci (which won the prestigious and rarely awarded ASPCA Media Excellence Award in 2015) and Seniors A Dogumentary, and most recently Pizza, A Love Story, a film on the Italian migration to New Haven, Connecticut that lead to the 3 most famous pizza restaurants in the world. He just completed Old Friends, A Dogumentary, and is currently in production on FACTORY, Normal Valid Lives, and an Untitled Powder Ridge Documentary. He has also written 5 novels including the religious satire, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told. He is the Executive Director/Programmer of NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival. He lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Kristine and their two dogs, Springsteen and Dylan.
