Robert Colom-Vargas

Robert Colom-Vargas (he/him) is a writer-producer, film curator, and social artist from Miami. Across the mediums of creative producing, screenwriting, film curation, and community activation, his practice evaluates understandings of identity through the influences of place, desire, and relationality. Creating and supporting characters and images that place themselves in direct opposition to hereditary systems of belief, Colom's work seeks to deliberately reveal and disrupt unconscious bias, and petition for new folklore. Through investigations of spatial and narrative belonging, he explores the cultural synapses between the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean as they materialize across the diasporic space and inform the cultural inheritance of America's immigrant populations.

Robert's latest film as co-writer and producer, "Mountains", explores gentrification in Little Haiti, intergenerational divides between immigrants and their American children, and many of Miami's complicated dynamics, told from the point of view of a Haitian family experiencing the neighborhood's rapid changes. Directed by and co-written with Monica Sorelle, "Mountains" was awarded a Special Jury Prize at its 2023 Tribeca Festival debut, premiered internationally at TIFF, and was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2024.

Robert was a 2023 Film Independent Producing Lab Fellow, a 2020 Southern Producers Lab Fellow, and three-time nominee to The Gotham Project Market. In 2023, Robert was selected by Third Horizon to workshop his narrative projects at EFM Fiction Toolbox-Berlinale.

Robert is the founding director of Cinemóvil, a free mobile repertory cinema touring Miami neighborhoods with a program of classic and contemporary films from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Robert's narrative work has won top prizes at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Berlinale, BlackStar, IndieMemphis, and Miami Film Festival, and has been distributed by MUBI, HBO, PBS, and Criterion Channel.