Robb Moss

Robb Moss is an independent documentary filmmaker and Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Notable work includes such films as The Same River Twice, Secrecy (film), and The Tourist. His films are often about the passage of time and its effect on characters, stories, and memories. His films have screened at festivals across America, and internationally in the Netherlands, Russia, France, Brazil, Germany, Turkey and Australia.[1]

The Same River Twice was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2004, as well as Best Documentary at the Nashville Film Festival, Sidewalk Moving Picture Film Festival, and the New England Film Festival. It was also listed as the Best Documentary and Cinematography of 2003 by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Secrecy, co-directed with Peter Galison, was awarded Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival and Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in Boston. The Tourist premiered at The Telluride Film Festival.

Robb Moss has taught filmmaking at Harvard for the past 25 years where he is a Harvard College Professor and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. He has worked as a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Labs since its inaugural year in 2004. In addition, he has served on the Documentary Juries for The Sundance Film Festival, The Denver Film Festival, The Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, New England Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, and more. He is on the Board of Directors for ITVS and is the Board Chair of the Rockefeller Fellowship. His education began at the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science (1972), followed by a Masters of Science in Visual Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979).

His most recent film is Containment, which he co-directed with Secrecy collaborator Peter Galison. Containment premiered at the 2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and has been shown at film festivals around the world including in Brazil, Switzerland, and Australia. This documentary investigates governments' attempts to contain a hundred million gallons of deadly radioactive sludge for 10,000 years, and asks the question, "How can people warn future generations across this immense time span during which languages, cultures and the environment will continually transform?"

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  1. ↑ http://www.samerivertwice.com/director/

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