About

Robert Arnold, founder of Lateral Films, is a colorist and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work as a colorist can be seen in (among many others):

Stray (2020)
Freeland (2020)
We Are As Gods (2021)
The Seer and the Unseen (2019)
The Gospel of Eureka (2018)
Attla (2019)
Huntsville Station (2020)
State of Pride (2019)
Jaddoland (2018)
Resurface (2017)
True Conviction (2017)
The Ballad of Fred Hersch (2017)
Hotel 22 (2014)
Slomo (2013)
Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)

His own films include the narrative feature The Exchange (2014), and shorts Annabelle (2012), There's No Sound in My Head (2010), and All Animals (2009). The Exchange, Annabelle, and All Animals were co-directed with Cynthia Mitchell.

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 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.