Testimonials

“Elliat Graney-Saucke collaborates with the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) as a consultant in many capacities including developing content for the Arts in Education (AIE) program. Elliat was a key partner in the development of the Creative Start Studio page – an effort to provide accessible multimedia resources for caregivers and educators of children ages 3 to 8. As a collaborator, Elliat is organized, responsive, and keenly oriented to equity and access work in the arts.”

Tamar Krames, Arts in Education Program Manager
Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA)

“The video documentation Elliat produced for me during the memorial performances at Seattle Art Museum is excellent. These performances are extremely important for my project and proper documentation is vital to the future of the work. I would only trust someone who I knew would be able to capture and produce documentation that faithfully and clearly represented the performances that took place. Elliat was able to do this and so much more in a remarkable way.”

Molly Vaughen, Visual Artist & Associate Professor
Bellevue College

“Elliat helped us bring our fundraising campaign to life with an inspiring video. She did a great job on a really tight timeline, and the final product helped us surpass our goal by a huge margin!”

Will von Geldern, Director of Advocacy & Communications
Ventures Nonprofit

“Elliat was a pleasure to work with. Despite being given few reference materials, little direction and time, she was able to produce a video that truly captured the intention and heart of our event.”

Katie Kurfurst, Communications Manager
Ventures Nonprofit

“We had such a great experience working with Elliat to tell the housing stories of LGBTQ elders in our community. We came to her with a tight timeline – less than 3 weeks – and she was able to shoot all of the interviews and b-roll and edit and assemble the footage into a clear and moving story. We now have a wonderful short video that we are using to build a movement for LGBTQ affirming low-income senior housing in Seattle.”

Alex Brennan, Senior Planner
Capitol Hill Housing

“I had the great pleasure of working with Elliat at IETM, the international network for contemporary performing arts, one of Europe’s largest and most established cultural networks based in Brussels. Working with Elliat was a wonderful experience : it is rare and precious to come across someone with such dedication, integrity, intelligence and capacity for creative thinking. She integrated the network’s multicultural environment with great ease, curiosity and generosity, with highly developed social skills and strong intercultural competence, a combination so precious in our sector and in the world today. She quickly understood the challenges and the potential for development, never hesitated to propose fresh, bright, creative ideas but always working as a true team member. Working with Elliat was inspirational, engaging and a lot of fun: I only wish we had more opportunities to collaborate!”

Milic Ilic, former Communications Officer at IETM (Brussels); current International Adviser at ONDA Office national de diffusion artistique (Paris)

“Elliat is a pleasure to work with – smart, insightful, skillful, and dedicated to her craft. Her body of work reveals a capacity to distill complex issues and many voices into provocative, insightful, and polished video testimonies.”

Dr. Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, KBI: Knowledge Building Initiative Project Director, National Performance Network Associate Professor, Performance as Public Practice and Chair, Minor in Arts Management and Administration in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin

“Working on IH with Elliat has been a very exciting and enriching experience. She’s an extraordinary team leader, highly intelligent and creative, quick, responsive, and with magic social skills. Elliat thinks, plans and acts BIG – certainly the person you’d want on your team for a project to be successful.”

Caterina Benincasa, Founder/Director
Innovate Heritage

Elliat Makes Everything Better.

Elliat Graney-Sauke is a very bright light in this world. Her outreach work on behalf of the state-produced documentary, SHOTS FIRED, has helped make the difference between a public film lost in online oblivion and a film that actually reaches the public. Elliat combines the best of all worlds. She knows her way around social media like a brilliant millennial. And she knows her way around conventional media (including print) like a seasoned media veteran. As a producer/director, I want Elliat on every project I do! I’ve known Elliat since she was 17 years old and it’s thrilling to watch her professional ascent as a media arts professional who is as capable cranking out an animated GIF in a few minutes as she is crafting a communications plan for a complex media project. Elliat is the real deal — a smart, creative, compassionate, generous artist and a communications professional with international experience, perspectives and relationships. Plus, Elliat is a blast to work with. When I start a project now, I think from the get-go about how to engage Elliat — because to put it simply, Elliat makes everything better (and more fun).”

Marilyn Freeman, Writer/Producer/Director
WaTech

“I have had the pleasure of working alongside Elliat several times over the years. Elliat is pretty much the equivalent to “getting things done”. It is so amazing how an idea that she will mention over a cup of tea will not soon after have come fully to life! Developing huge productions involving and connecting large amounts of people is made to seem an easy task by her. Not only is she fun to work with but she also has a true talent for encouraging people, giving pep talks, staying calm and focused, and detecting other people’s talents. And on top of all that, she is a wonderful performer/singer.”

Layana Flachs-Richards, Co-Hostess/Performer for Special Friends Cabaret & Co-Hostess/Performer/Model/Panelist for Femme Hive: Berlin Femme Conference