Robert Gregson is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY.
His short Shut Eye earned the Best Horror Short Award at Montreal Independent Film Festival and his short The Refrigerator earned the Best New Director Award at Brooklyn Film Festival. His feature film Trivia Night won the Best Feature Film Award at the Omaha Film Festival and is now available on Amazon Prime.
As a director, he has created ads for Google, NYU, U.N. Environment Programme, FEED Foundation, Entrepreneur Magazine, Post Pebbles Cereal, ARM Tech, and Joico. A seven part ad campaign he directed for the Hospital for Special Surgery was awarded a NY Emmy. He also wrote and directed Envisioning a New Home for the Late Show, a viral short which documented the architectural renovation of the Ed Sullivan Theater for Stephen Colbert’s late show.
He wrote and directed the short dramatic thriller, A Good Couple, which World Premiered at Dances With Films and earned the Best Screenplay Award at Rhode Island International Film Festival. His feature screenplay adaptation of the short, Shadow Island, was selected to participate in Stowe Story Labs 2024. The screenplay also placed Second Round at Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition and Second Round in the Launch Pad Features Competition.
A short documentary he directed, Color to Color, premiered in 2022 and won the Best Micro Film Award at Oregon Documentary Film Festival.
He is developing several feature films, including the psychological horror film Shadow Island and the neo-noir film Influencers. Influencers, developed with screenwriter Benjamin Reeves, was a Quarterfinalist at 2020 FinalDraft Big Break Competition, Second Round in the Launch Pad Features Competition, and was also selected to take part in the Northeast Filmmaker’s Lab.
Most recently, he wrote and directed The Interpreters, a dark comedy about mortality and social media, featuring Caroline Mixon (Mare of Easttown), Lily Yin (Poker Face), and Darius Fraser (Evil). The film is currently in post-production.
He is currently in pre-production on his next short film, Blood Stone.
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