Roberta, a multi-faceted artist, is an author, writer/director, producer and CEO of her film consulting company. She programmed the acclaimed short film program at The Sundance Film Festival for 5 years learning how to, and how NOT to make a short film great. Roberta's book How Not To Make A Short Film: Secrets From A Sundance Programmer is published by Hyperion and distributed by HarperCollins and available on Amazon.com.
As a writer/director, Roberta was invited by the Fox Searchlight Directors Program (foxsearchlab) and made 2 award winning short films Dani and Alice and Happy Birthday that have played at over 150 film festivals worldwide and gained distribution deals on iTunes, Logo and Wolfe Video. Roberta was also commissioned to write, direct & produce two short films for the United Nations (UNFPA) highlighting their youth focused sexual rights initiatives.
As a producer, she has assisted over 25 filmmakers. Some titles include: Suicide Canaries (SXSW 2010), The Procession (Starring Lily Tomlin & Jesse Tyler Ferguson), The High Level Bridge (Sundance 2011, AFI 2010) Debutante Hunters (Sundance 2012, Palm Springs 2011) The Thing (Sundance 2012) and My Night With Andrew Cunanan (Melbourne LGBT Film Festival 2012). Roberta is also the lead producer on the grant program at the South Carolina Film Commission that produces 6 short films a year.
She lives in Los Angeles with her rescued Min-Pin, Marcello and Chihuahua, Rita. The best way to reach Roberta is through her website http://www.robertamunroe.com or email info@robertamunroe.com.