Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Richard Knox Robinson

Friday, November 06, 2015 @ 10:00am, Clemson One Building

A Curious Collaboration

Richard Knox Robinson is an award winning photographer and filmmaker based near Charlottesville, Virginia. His first film, “The Beekeepers,” premiered at Sundance in 2009 in the New Frontiers Shorts Program and went on to screen in Toronto and Telluride, winning Best Short Documentary at The Atlanta Film Festival. His first feature film, “Rothstein’s First Assignment “ was nominated for the special jury prize at Seattle’s International Film Festival in 2011 and screened Internationally including the Watch Docs Film Festival in Warsaw Poland. It was featured in Time’s LightBox.

His photographs have been featured in over 30 publications including, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Time, Communication Arts, American Photography and National Geographic Traveler.

In 2012 he was awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and is currently a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait gallery.

He teaches filmmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCUArts) and has taught at the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University and Randolph College.

His films are represented by Cinema Guild of New York.