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Rob Cristiano is a Brooklyn-born independent filmmaker. His feature film producing credits include festival favorites DOWN WITH THE KING (Cannes Film Festival - L'Acid Selection '21), THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (Winner - Grand Jury Prize - Sundance '18), BOB AND THE TREES (Sundance '15, Winner - Crystal Globe - Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Fest '15), KEEP THE CHANGE (Winner - Best US Narrative Film - Tribeca Film Festival '17, Winner - Critics' Award, Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival '17), MY FIRST KISS AND THE PEOPLE INVOLVED (Los Angeles Film Festival '16, Audience Prize - New Orleans Film Festival '16), and STAY AWAKE (Berlinale - Generation 14plus Feature '22).
In recent years, Cristiano produced the award-winning Broadway-themed web series UNDERSTUDIES, an episodic VR pilot and more than a dozen acclaimed short films that have screened at over one hundred film festivals in twenty different countries. They include BLUE BOY (Clermont-Ferrand Int'l Short Film Fest), PENNY DREADFUL (Audience Prize - Clermont-Ferrand Int'l Short Film Fest, Best of Fest - LA Comedy Short Film Fest, National Board of Review Student Grant), MELON HEAD (Atlanta Film Festival, Short of the Week), and GOODBYE BLUE SKY (Short of the Week). His chess-themed short film, THE KING'S PAWN, received a production grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and was honored by Vimeo as a Staff Pick.
Cristiano's experience includes extensive location scouting and management work on films like: THE ADDERALL DIARIES (starring James Franco), THREE GENERATIONS (starring Naomi Watts), BARRY (starring Devon Terrell), THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS (starring Ben Mendelsohn), PUZZLE (starring Kelly MacDonald), SOMEONE GREAT (starring Gina Rodriguez), THE FAREWELL (starring Awkwafina) and THE STAND-IN (starring Drew Barrymore).
In 2013, the Producers Guild of America presented Cristiano with the prestigious Debra Hill Fellowship for emerging producers. He has participated in and taken projects through the Making Waves producer's workshop at the Berlinale, and Tribeca Film Institute's Industry Program. Cristiano is a two-time Film Independent Fellow (Fast Track '18 and Producing Lab '23), and also an alum of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Trans-Atlantic Partners co-production lab. He is currently developing several feature film projects under his Inside Voices production banner. Over the years, Cristiano has produced commercial work at top companies including Vice, M ss ng P eces, Ghost Robot, and Pereira O'Dell / BarrelHouse, and he recently co-founded the commercial production company, Living Legend.
