George F. Roberson

Co-writer and Producer of award winning film, Joshua Tree (2014), on the crisis of the American Dream. Since 2015, he's served on the Jury of Cyprus International Film Festival and Bridges International Film Festival (Greece). Through his cooperative media NGO, Collaborative Media International, he develops a variety of socially informed initiatives focused on sites of confrontation and contestation. A broadly trained and experienced academic, advocate, and entrepreneur, Roberson was Fulbright Scholar to Morocco, holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has been to over sixty countries and hitch-hiked solo across the Sahara. In recent years, he's lived in Guatemala (one of the world's most dangerous and impoverished countries) making his current film, José (2018) - longing in Guatemala, a simple story about love