ROBIN BLOTNICK

 

Robin produced and edited To the End (Sundance 2022, Roadside Attractions, Hulu), and Knock Down the House (Netflix), which won the US Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was shortlisted for an Oscar and nominated for an Emmy in 2020. His directing work includes the award-winning documentaries The Hand That Feeds (PBS, 2014, co-directed with Rachel Lears), about a bitter struggle for justice at a New York City bagel shop, and Gods and Kings (2012), about masks, magic and media in the Guatemalan highlands. His archival collage City of Movement is currently playing on infinite loop at the Museum of the City of New York.

 

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

Producer / Editor
To The End
To The End

Stopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four remarkable young women of color fight for a Green New Deal and ignite a historic shift in US climate politics.

Knock Down The House
Knock Down The House

Four working class women run for Congress, overcoming adversity to battle powerful political machines in very different American landscapes. One of their races will change the country forever.

DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / EDITOR
The Hand That Feeds
The Hand That Feeds

(2014) Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma Lopez unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. The epic power struggle that ensues turns a single city block into a battlefield in America’s new wage wars.

Gods and Kings
Gods and Kings

(2012) At a festival in a sleepy Guatemalan mountain town, traditional dances are disrupted by an eerie spectacle where horror movie monsters dance beside Maya gods and Cold War dictators.

City of Movement
City of Movement

(2016) A ten minute archival collage of 100+ years of New York City social movements, now playing on infinite loop in the Museum of the City of New York's Activist New York exhibition.