About Rick
a.k.a. Une
Rick Groleau
I am a multimedia producer with almost 40 years experience in film and video, writing, multimedia, and website management. My “day job” career began at WGBH, Boston’s public television station, where I worked for 18 years, and ended at Harvard Medical School, where I worked for another 17. For the past 15 I have also worked through my own company, Picked Wiss, which is now called Unietoons.
My experience includes video and film production, animation, writing, project management, and web development. For WGBH I wrote, storyboarded, and produced over 100 interactive features for NOVA, the American Experience, This Old House, and Mystery. While at Harvard Medical, I directed, produced, and animated almost 200 videos, led the production of the Wyss Institute website, which won a Webby Award in the category of science.
Although I studied film and television production at Emerson College in the late 1980s, it wasn’t until 2007 that I began working on my own films. I submitted my first film to a festival in 2013. The film, which is about me and my son surfing 10 beaches in four states in five days, was an official selection at the Maine Outdoor Film Festival. Since then, I have directed and produced five more micro-budget films. These have screened at 40+ regional film festivals and have won awards including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Maine Film, Best Short, Best Indie Short, Best Cinematography, Original Screenplay, and Best of Festival. Three of these films have been broadcast on Vermont and Maine public television.
In 2015 I wrote my first screenplay — a short called “The Old Yard.” That script won Best Screenplay in the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival’s screenplay competition. It was also a finalist at the 2016 Boston International Film Festival. Another script, “The Niagara Resolution,” won Best Screenplay at the 2017 Massachusetts Independent Film Festival and was a finalist at the 2016 New York Short Film and Screenplay Festival.
Web-related projects I’ve been involved with have received following recognition: Webby Award winner in Science category (Wyss Institute, 2012); Webby Award finalist in Education category (NOVA Online, 2001); Webby Award finalist in Education category (A Science Odyssey, 2000); Webby Award Honoree (Children’s Research website, 2006); Peabody Award (NOVA Online’s Elegant Universe — program and website — 2003); and 32 USA Today Hot Picks (way back when they did that!).
For additional information, check out my LinkedIn profile…
Multimedia producer / filmmaker based in the boston area
condensed resume
1987-2005
Worked on a variety of online projects including websites for NOVA, American Experience, This Old House, WGBH Online, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, Victory Garden, A Science Odyssey, Africans in America, taking on various roles, including managing editor, writer, project manager, developer, and multimedia producer.
2005-2008
Led the web effort to heighten awareness of research conducted at the hospital, which is home to the world’s largest research enterprise at a pediatric center. Produced interactive content aimed at describing research developments to a lay audience that included Flash-based presentations, galleries, animated illustrations, virtual tours, and video.
2008-2025
Held three positions for three departments while at Harvard — one in the Office of Communications and External Relations, one at the Wyss Institute, and one at Harvard Health Publications. Worked as a Senior Multimedia Producer and Manager of Web Communications.
2025-PRESENT
Specialize in conveying esoteric science content to a lay audience through animation, video production, and writing.