Talent Guide

Robert Colom

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2022

Bio

Robert Colom (he/him) is a Cuban film producer, writer, and graphic designer born in Miami, whose work illuminates stories of Florida and the Latin American diaspora.  He is a member of the Caribbean creative collective Third Horizon, and has been a programmer for their flagship initiative, Third Horizon Film Festival, since 2021.  He has been a fellow of New Orleans Film Society’s Southern Producers Lab (in 2018 and 2020) and has participated in The Gotham Project Market (in 2021’s U.S. Fiction Features section, and 2022’s U.S. Features in Post section, “Mountains”).

He has produced and collaborated on projects for Sesame Workshop, Film Independent, and A24. His films have played worldwide, including most notably at Sundance, Miami Film Festival, and Berlinale, and have been acquired by HBO, PBS, and Criterion Channel. In 2022, Robert founded Cinemóvil, a free mobile repertory cinema touring Miami neighborhood with a program of classic and contemporary films from Latin America and the Caribbean. “Mountains”, his first feature as writer-producer, is currently in post-production.

Current Project

Mountains

Logline

A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.