
Robert Moore, Director
Robert started his film career at age twelve when he moved to Los Angeles when into the atmosphere of Hollywood and started working on film sets as an extra and production assistant.
His scholastic career began in film production at Santa Monica College in LA, followed by a year abroad in my native Britain where he studied film and Television production and soon found his way back to the States and to New York City when he won a scholarship to study film production at Brooklyn College . Mr. Moore graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and made his directorial debut with a short film production; ‘El Sueno Americano’. The film went on to win numerous awards at the school film festival including an award for outstanding student film by the National Board of Review in 2007. ‘Sueno’ has also played in numerous independent festivals around the world including London , Los Angeles , and New York . My current film, ‘Detachment’, about a young marine struggling to re-connect to civilian life after two tours in Iraq , recently won the diversity in filmmaking award at the 2008 Cinema City International Film Festival in Los Angeles .
Official GIFF Selection: Detachment