About

Rob Feld

Rob Feld is a filmmaker and journalist. His recent documentary, Jesters and Fools, interweaves the social science of Duke professor Chris Bail and the observations of comedians Colin Quinn, Mo Amer, Jim Norton, Rosebud Baker, Nathan Macintosh, and Dean Edwards to reveal the truth that America is not nearly as polarized as our media landscape would have us believe. Rob’s first dramatic short film, Love, Lots of It, starred Campbell Scott, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired for distribution. The second short film he directed, Sand Castle, had its international premiere at the TIFF Kids International Film Festival.

Rob directs and produces branded content for creative agencies such as Piro, Casey Wishart, and The Alpha Grid—where he has made content for clients like The Boston Consulting Group, Estée Lauder and E*TRADE—and for organizations such as The Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai Health System.  As head of production at Manifesto Films, he was associate producer of Michael Rymer's Sundance Film Festival film Perfume, starring Michelle Williams, Rita Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Jared Harris, Mariel Hemingway, Leslie Mann, Paul Sorvino, and others.

As a journalist, Feld hosted and produced Day for Night, a series of film screening events with filmmaker and actor interviews streamable on THE HUFFINGTON POST. He is a contributing writer to the DGA QUARTERLY, WRITTEN BY magazine and CINEMONTAGE, where his interviews with noted filmmakers publish regularly. Feld has appeared as a commentator on Entertainment Tonight, is a contributing editor of Newmarket Press’ SHOOTING SCRIPT book series, and has also written for AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER.

Some of Feld's interview subjects have included Mike Nichols, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Kaufman, Vince Gilligan, Alexander Payne, Nora Ephron, George Clooney, Tim Burton, Emma Thompson, Robert Altman, Julien Schnabel, P.T. Anderson, James L. Brooks, Guillermo del Toro, Darren Aronofsky, Jim Jarmusch, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jonathan Demme, Bennett Miller, Alex Gibney, Jean-Marc Vallée, Lawrence Kasdan, Gore Verbinski, Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Woody Allen, Werner Herzog, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Favreau, Kenneth Branagh, Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson, David O. Russell, Spike Jonze, David Koepp, Brian DePalma, William Friedkin, Jay Roach, Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, Noah Baumbach, M. Night Shyamalan, Larry Wilmore, Paul Reiser, Marisa Tomei, Shaileen Woodley, Kurt Russell, John Lithgow, Spike Lee, Michael C. Hall, Elijah Wood, Bobby Canavale, David Cross, Alfred Molina, Cheryl Hines, and John Slattery.

Feld is an Adjunct Instructor of screenwriting and directing at New York University, a movement partner at BUILDERS: Starts With Us, a spokesperson for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Artists for Understanding initiative, and a graduate of Cornell University.