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Robert Greene’s most recent film PROCESSION (Telluride 2021), is distributed by Netflix, was nominated for an Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award, a Peabody and was shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Documentary. Most recently, he produced and edited both PAVEMENTS (Venice 2024, NYFF 2024) and THE FEATHERWEIGHT (Venice 2023). Robert’s film BISBEE ’17 (2018) premiered at Sundance, had its U.S. theatrical premiere at Film Forum, aired on PBS’s P.O.V., and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards. Other 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. He has edited nearly twenty feature films, 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). Robert has served as a Sundance Edit Lab Advisor and was on the U.S. Documentary Jury for Sundance 2017. He co-created the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, where he currently serves as Filmmaker-In-Chief, and he also teaches in the School of Visual Studies at Mizzou. 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.

Robert Kolodny is a Director, Writer and Cinematographer based in New York City. His feature film directorial debut, THE FEATHERWEIGHT, premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. It went on to be the closing film of the 54 International Film Festival of India. For his work on the film, Robert was awarded the John Schlesinger Narrative Award from the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director at RiverRun International Film Festival. As a Cinematographer, Robert has shot on films by Josh & Benny Safdie, Alex Ross Perry, Robert Greene, Laura Poitras, Sean Price Williams, David Byrne, Taylor Mac, and Cecilia Vicuña. Robert served as Director of Photography on the Netflix film PROCESSION, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. The film went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards and Robert was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lighting Direction at the 43rd News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Robert was the Director of Photography of two films by Alex Ross Perry, PAVEMENTS, which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and RITE HERE RITE NOW, which was released worldwide on over 1,800 screens. He contributed cinematography to the HBO Documentary Film ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, which won the Golden Lion at the 79th Venice International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Oscar® at the 95th Academy Awards®. His short film Fly on Out screened at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in the Court Métrage. His direction of the TV series Frankie Cooks, earned him a New York Emmy Award. In 2022, DOC NYC named Robert one of its 40 Under 40 Filmmakers. In 2019, he was invited to be a fellow of newportFILM’s inaugural Documentary Cinematography Lab. He has lectured on visual language in hybrid nonfiction at Museum of the Moving Image and the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri. He has created and publicly displayed site-specific fine art video installations in collaboration with Cecilia Vicuña, that have been shown on exhibition at The MoMA (NYC), The Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston, and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery. Robert is a prolific film-viewer and a lifelong student of the craft and history of cinema. When not making or watching films, he is a Professor of Film at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Richard Brody began writing for The New Yorker in 1999 and has contributed articles about the directors François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Wes Anderson. Since 2005, he has been the movie-listings editor at the magazine; he writes film reviews and The Front Row, a blog about movies. He is the author of the book Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard and is at work on a book about the lasting influence of the French New Wave. 

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