About

Robert Arnold, founder of Lateral Films, is a filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent films include Annabelle (2011), There's No Sound in My Head (2010), and All Animals (2009), which won the Director's Choice Award at the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films 2009. Annabelle and All Animals were both co-directed with Robert's creative partner, writer Cynthia Mitchell. They are currently in pre-production on The Exchange, a narrative feature scheduled to film in Paris this Fall.

In 2007, Robert's feature-length documentary, The Key of G, won the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and aired nationally on PBS. It is now in educational distribution through New Day Films.

Robert also works as a freelance cinematographer and editor. His editing work includes Leonor's Journey (2007) and Always My Son (2010), for the Family Acceptance Project, both directed by Vivian Kleiman. He also edited Anjali Sundaram's short film, Canada, which premiered at the San Francisco International Asian Film Festival 2007.

Robert studied Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley; Film Production at San Francisco State University; and holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.