ROBERT GREENE

Feb. 22 2022

Virtual Event

ROBERT GREENE’s latest film PROCESSION premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival before it premiered on Netflix. PROCESSION is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. His previous critically acclaimed film BISBEE ’17 (2018) premiered at Sundance, aired on PBS’s P.O.V. and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards. His films include the Sundance award winning KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (2016), the Gotham Awards nominated ACTRESS (2014) and the Gotham Awards nominated KATI WITH AN I (2010). Robert was an inaugural Sundance Art of Nonfiction fellow in 2015 and has been nominated four times for Best Director at the Cinema Eye Honors.

The Independent named Robert one of their 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014 and he received the 2014 Vanguard Artist Award from the San Francisco DocFest. His first documentary, OWNING THE WEATHER (2009), was screened at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Robert has edited over a dozen features, including HER SMELL (2018), GOLDEN EXITS (2017), QUEEN OF EARTH (2015) and LISTEN UP PHILIP (2014) by Alex Ross Perry, Nick Berardini’s KILLING THEM SAFELY (2015), Amanda Rose Wilder’s award winning APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (2014), Charles Poekel’s Spirit Awards-nominated CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (2015) and Douglas Tirola’s HEY BARTENDER (2013).

He has served as a Sundance Edit Lab Advisor and was on the U.S. Documentary Jury for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Robert co-created the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri and serves as its Filmmaker-in-Chief. Robert writes about documentary for outlets such as Sight & Sound and Hyperallergic and he co-programs the Based on a True Story Conference, which runs annually in conjunction with True/False.