Robert Child
Producer/Director/Writer
(Robert Child's Blog)

Robert Child’s career in television spans nearly 25 years. He began at KAET (PBS) in Phoenix as a technical director and moved on to markets including Providence (WLNE-TV), Boston (WCVB-TV and The Christian Science Monitor) and finally New York (WOR-TV).

In 1992, he left WOR-TV where he was handling newscasts and the syndicated Richard Bey and Joe Franklin Shows. He then began more than a decade of freelancing as a director and technical director at national and cable networks. A brief list of his credits includes: The CBS Morning Show (CBS), The Breeder’s Cup and The Carson Daly Late Night Show (NBC), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central), and multitudes of concerts, specials and series for MTV and VH1.

In New York, he assisted launches of networks and series. He was New York 1 News’ first freelance director and he launched Emeril Live! for Food Network as a technical director and sheparded the show for five seasons.

In 2000, Rob moved into a highly successful independent producing career releasing two paranormal documentaries with Allumination Filmworks and also a series of highly regarded and award-winning Civil War films including Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue & Gray and the docudrama Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny.

In 2005, he began Lincoln and Lee at Antietam - The Cost of Freedom which was the follow up to his first Gettysburg film. He eventually brought this project to Inecom Entertainment for distribution and additional resources. The film released on January 31, 2006 and has secured some of his highest recognition yet. Out of 850 entries in the Feature Documentary category at Worldfest Houston Film Festival, Lincoln and Lee at Antietam was the lone recipient of the coveted Special Jury Award for Feature Documentary. In addition, the film secured the highly regarded CINE Golden Eagle Award for Professional Telecast History.

Released in 2007, Silent Wings -The American Glider Pilots of WWII is his latest history-based writing and directing project and his most ambitious yet as it covers American glider pilot exploits throughout all of WWII.

Rob also produced and directed a 15 episode children’s wildlife series, Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari, which began airing nationwide on PBS stations in September 2007. Since July 2007 he has been based in Toronto directing the WW1 War epic, Dominion Day. The film will be released theatrically in Canada and broadcast around the globe in November 2008 – the ninetieth anniversary of the end of World War 1.

Award highlights:
Rob and his independent production company have received more than 24 international and national honors. Most recently is the Fall 2007 CINE Golden Eagle Award for the film Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of World War II.  Other highlights include the 2004 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival where he won both the Best Director and Best Historical Program awards. Also that year he was awarded his second consecutive Platinum Remi Award for Best Historical Program at the Worldfest Houston Film Festival for Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny.

All of his work is distributed worldwide on major home video labels including PBS, Allumination Filmworks and Inecom Entertainment Company.

For more information on Robert Child visit his blog at: http://robchild.blogspot.com/

 

ROBERT CHILD FILMOGRAPHY since year 2001