Roberta’s independent film work has been recognized with production and distribution grants from: The American Film Institute, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Jerome Foundation, among others. She has received several Best of Category Citations in film festivals around the country and abroad and been exhibited in some of the most sought after venues for independents, including a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
“Although my first love was theatre, I have been a filmmaker pretty much most of my life. I once said that film was “my blood.” Although technologies for working with moving images have changed, filmmaking and the storytelling it embodies is still at the heart of what I do best.”
Roberta has also worked with filmmakers and educational producers to bring projects to fruition, serving as editor, consultant and creator of digital effects. In 1993 she founded One of a Kind Video Portraits as a personal history and tribute service for individuals and families, but now exclusively creates short multimedia stories for this market under Original Digital.
Roberta has also been involved (as program coordinator, consultant, instructor and artist-in residence) with non-profit and educational institutions serving a wide variety of multi-ethnic populations in the arenas of community college, adult and children’s education, cultural anthropology, hospice, social service and the arts.
