Birthday:
05-25-1976
(48 years)
Birthplace:
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Biography
Robert Greene (born May 25, 1976) is an American documentary filmmaker, editor, and writer. His documentaries include Procession (2021), Bisbee '17 (2018), Kate Plays Christine (2016), Actress (2014), and Fake it So Real (2012). He was named one of the 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014 by The Independent, and is "filmmaker-in-chief" at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri, beginning in 2015.
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Predators
Additional Editor
event2025
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“To Catch a Predator” was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show and the world it helped create.
Pavements
Editor • Producer
event2024
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Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.
Chouteau: Scenes From Below
Producer
event2024
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Cavers are in no way numb to the absurdity of their hobby. Squeezing through impossibly tight spaces, jumping across chasms and crawling through chest deep water are just another day. Despite this, the question of why is seldom asked. Chouteau: Scenes from Below explores the thoughts, feelings, and history of the Chouteau Grotto as they find ways to push deeper underground.
Tilted Arc
Producer
event2023
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In 1981, minimalist sculptor Richard Serra installed a 120-foot-long wall of steel that cut New York's Federal Plaza in half. The artwork’s appearance and placement caused controversy, leading to a public hearing where Serra rallied fellow artists to his defense as bureaucrats waged war on minimalism.
Kim's Video
Act like Self
event2023 star_border 7
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Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim's Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes.
The Featherweight
Editor
event2023 star_border 5.1
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Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.
Tension Envelopes
Director
event2023
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A curious building in Kansas City, Missouri, becomes subject to speculations about labor practices and dramas therein.
American Alien
Producer
event2021
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American Alien is an observational film chronicling the journey of the filmmaker to become an American citizen. Fearing that he will be targeted by the aggressive deportation campaign of the Trump administration and be separated from his loved ones, the filmmaker attempts to go through the process of naturalization, hitting one roadblock after another. With the added obstacle of a worldwide pandemic, can he reach his goal in time and gain a sense of security for himself and the people he loves?
Procession
Director • Editor
event2021 star_border 6.5
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Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films inspired by their trauma.
Erin, Verified
Co-Producer
event2021
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In most aspects of her life, Erin Jones is a normal person. She’s 27 years old, she works a retail job and she lives in Chicago with her three roommates. That, and she also has more than two million followers on the popular video-sharing app TikTok. Erin, Verified is an open, honest look at the effect pseudo-fame and parasocial relationships have on people in the age of social media.
The Forward Momentum Of Madellyn Knightley
Producer
event2020
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Madellyn's past experiences with drugs and an invasive species of poppy flowers overtake the town. Her high school graduation freezes in time.
Her Smell
Editor
event2019 star_border 5.8
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A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Roxana
Producer
event2018
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Roxana follows a young mother’s return to the juvenile detention center she was once incarcerated in, now as a trained somatic therapist. Through an intimate look into the lives of incarcerated youth, we will see the consequences of childhood trauma.
Nai Nai
Producer
event2018
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Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-Ming has always been a woman of control. But her grasp of reality and the control of her own mind is slipping away. Told through the lens of her grandson, the film focuses on the joyful, heartbreaking and intimate moments in the last chapters of her life.
Ulisses
Producer
event2018
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A poetic observational documentary that follows the lives of a community of “jangadeiros” —fishermen typical to the dune-lined Northeastern Coast of Brazil.
Bisbee '17
Director • Screenplay
event2018 star_border 7
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It’s 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town’s close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee’s darkest hour: the infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917, during which 1,200 striking miners were violently taken from their homes, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this violent, misunderstood past by staging dramatic recreations of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and “directed,” in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply personal segments torn from family history build toward a massive restaging of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary.
Rockpile
Producer
event2018
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A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the origins of a looming structure known as the Rockpile.
Golden Exits
Editor
event2018 star_border 5.8
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An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Last of the Last Days
Producer
event2017
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This personal and experimental film juxtaposes scenes of home video recordings with letters from the director’s mother sent 20 years later. The director’s decision to leave the family’s faith results in an ultimatum from her mother, a devout Jehovah’s Witness: either return to Jehovah or never see her again. As the choices are revealed, the film discovers what has been lost and questions why subsequent generations often repeat the past.
A Conversation Between Parents
Producer
event2017
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A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a climactic conversation in their lives -- as both young parents grasp at the last threads of their ideal family. On an afternoon off of work, the couple sits on their couch, while their son sleeps in his crib, and the family grapples with their limited options one last time. Dietrich’s camera ties the couple’s painful conversation together with flashbacks of both parents’ precious memories of their first year with Jasper, attempting to find a way to articulate their struggles in the last conversation they have together as a couple.
SEND
Producer
event2017 star_border 9
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A crew of teenage boys attempts to satisfy and perform in a world of high expectations as they prepare mentally and physically for competition. Shot through the lens of an older sister, this intimate nonfiction portrait observes the interplay of the boys with their carefully-controlled world.
Lost Paradise
Producer
event2017
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This nonfiction meditative drama follows a learned man to the heart of Kansas as he enters the Survival Condo Project, an Atlas “F” missile silo turned luxury condominium. Built to house a nuclear warhead from 1961 to 1965, the site now serves as a survival bunker for the ultra-wealthy. Imagining life as the last man on earth, the man contemplates doomsday and the enduring spirit of humanity.
Kate Plays Christine
Director • Writer • Editor
event2016 star_border 5.7
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Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her subject.
Concerned Student 1950
Producer
event2016
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A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college president. From the hunger strike, to victory, to the fear of violent reprisals, we live with the students who started a campus revolt.
Temporary Color
event2016
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A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts.
Christmas, Again
Editor
event2015 star_border 6.1
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Noel is a young man who travels from upstate New York every year to sell Christmas trees in New York City. Returning without the help of his long-time girlfriend, this year Noel finds it impossible to do the one thing he knows so well---sell Christmas trees. As Noel begins to spiral downwards, alienating co-workers and customers in the process, it turns out this same community of people may be the only ones capable of saving Noel from self-destruction.
7 Chinese Brothers
Editor
event2015 star_border 5.3
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Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
Approaching the Elephant
Producer
event2015 star_border 7
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APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are optional and rules are made by democratic vote. Summerhill, founded 90 years ago by A. S. Neill, was the first free school - now there are more than 200 worldwide. Approaching the Elephant chronicles a free school in the making - spanning two years, from Teddy McArdle's first day when there were no rules or classes, through the changing of the school's director and the expulsion of a student by democratic vote, to the last day of the second year, APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is an intimate portrait of a small group of people from a range of educational backgrounds, come together to forge a place where children are treated as equals, at liberty to spend their days however they please.
Queen of Earth
Editor
event2015 star_border 5.9
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Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
Firefly Boy (a.k.a. Trace of the future according to Robert Greene)
Director
event2014
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"Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future." - from DAFilms.com.
Actress
Director • Editor • Director of Photography
event2014 star_border 6.4
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Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her.
Listen Up Philip
Editor
event2014 star_border 5.8
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Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
We Could Be King
Colorist
event2014 star_border 6.3
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Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools were bitter rivals for over 40 years. This past year, a budget crisis caused Philadelphia to lay off over 4000 employees and close 37 schools, including Germantown High. Now Germantown must merge with their former rival, King. Against overwhelming odds, a 27-year old first time head coach and a new principal fight to inspire young men from difficult circumstances to come together and lift each other toward a better future.
Fake It So Real
Director • Editor • Director of Photography • Producer
event2012 star_border 6.8
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Dive head-first into the world of independent pro wrestling as we follow a group in Lincolnton, North Carolina over the week leading up to a big show.
Kati with an I
Director
event2010 star_border 6.7
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An intimate portrait of Kati, a teenage girl about to graduate high school, who endures a moment-by-moment emotional transformation over the course of three tumultuous days that leave her future in doubt.
All In: The Poker Movie
Producer • Director of Photography
event2009 star_border 6
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A documentary focusing on why one of America's oldest games has had a renaissance in the past few years and why, for so many, poker is the way to chase the American Dream.
Owning the Weather
Director
event2009 star_border 5
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We've always wanted to control the weather. Now we may have to.
An Omar Broadway Film
Producer • Director of Photography • Editor
event2008 star_border 7
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.An incarcerated gang member sneaks a video camera into prison in order to document the use of excessive force and corruption among the institution's guards.
Anytown, USA
Editor
event2005 star_border 6.8
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Three Candidates, Two blind Politicians, One Race. Anytown USA follows a tightly run race in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey and resonates as an all-too-familiar look at partisan politics in our increasingly polarized nation.
One Dead in Ohio
Director
event2005
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Election Day 2004: Democracy lays dead in Ohio as another election is stolen in broad daylight. Based on the Congressional report that detailed how Ohio became the new Florida in 2004.
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