User:Robinmonk

ROB WILSON BIO For more than 40 years, Rob Wilson has made a living as a writer, director and story producer based in Los Angeles, winning the Emmy, Cable ACE, CINE Golden Eagle and other awards for a diverse body of work. He has written, directed or produced primetime programs for Disney, Discovery, Group W, MTV, Discovery Networks, CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS. Rob is amember of both the Writers and Directors Guilds of America.

Rob was the Director for 32 Episodes of Disney's "Inside Out" primetime series. and won a Cable ACE award for his work on Disney's "Salute to the American Teacher.

As a screenwriter, Rob has had properties optioned by CBS, Universal Pictures, Jersey Films and ITC Productions. Rob has created numerous independent projects including experimental interactive content for the Internet with Cisco "Built for Broadband" and the Microsoft Broadband Initiative.

Rob is a graduate of Stanford University (BA Communications/Psychology), the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the City of New York (MS Journalism), and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute (Screenwriting, Producing). Rob studied acting with Joanne Linville and Judith Weston.

He was awarded the Emmy for Investigative Reporting on herbicide use over populated areas, which resulted in the chemical being banned. As a Journalist, Rob’s work has covered a wide gamut of fascinating subjects in far flung locations. Rob has reported first-hand on crime and criminal justice, venturing into the nation’s prisons and jails. Rob’s documentary work has included investigating corruption in police departments, international Chinese gang networks, Latin American revolutions, the death penalty, treatment of mentally ill offenders, prison rape, the use of cancer-causing herbicides over populated areas, and the battle for LGBT rights. As an investigative reporter, Rob has tackled complex subjects such as data encryption, technology versus privacy, the politics of persuasion, high-tech medical breakthroughs, computer graphics and 3D Technology (recently winning a New Media Film Festival award for as Story Producer on "Digital Darkroom: The Art of 3D” and a CINE Golden Eagle for “Water: Our Thirsty Planet,” with National Geographic.

In 2015, Rob founded UnAuthorized Films, Inc. to develop feature, television and documentary projects. Rob directed a pilot for the Limited Series, “ProvinceLands” in 2016, and recently completed a political action thriller, “The Consul General’s Wife,” which won a very high 8.5/10 rating on the prestigious Black List. He is re-writing his screenplay "WHITE DEVIL," about Chinese slave girls in the early 1900's, and is working as Consultant to the start-up FAMILY NATION, serving families in crisis. He is currently Co-Producer and Writer/Director on the podcast "OURGENPOD: talkin' 'bout Our Generation," and is about to launch his Substack blog “Mutterings From the Man Behind the Curtain” any day now.