Robe Imbriano

So honored our documentary about the remarkable @dwaynebetts will have its premiere at @tribeca in June. Grateful for Dwayne and the terrific team that worked so hard to make this possible.

Big news: our film Criminal, an animated musical documentary short, drops today! Subscribers of @newyorkermag can watch it early on their site starting 6am ET - or catch it on their youtube account at 12pm ET! Link in bio. We’re so excited to share this with the world ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

TONIGHT! Martha Jones speaks about her remarkable and revealing new book, “The Trouble of Color,” with Nikole Hannah-Jones at the Center for Brooklyn History. Starts at 6:30p and you can register here: /calendar/cbh-talk-martha-jones-and-center-for-brooklyn-20250319-0630pm

Thank you, @urbanworldff !!! It was an amazing festival! We screened for a sold out house of beautiful people, Stew and Heidi played live, and Alec Karakatsanis, Nick Turner, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams gave our audience food for thought around pretrial detention and bail. We are thrilled to be in the company of so many terrific filmmakers and to be so honored. Congrats to lead animator Thomas Curtis as well as Julia Chien and Barry Bruner for their searing work!

I’m honored and thrilled to share that Criminal, our animated musical documentary short film, is going to have its New York premiere at the UrbanWorld Film Festival on November 16th at 5pm in theater 12 at the Regal Union Square cinema. It’s going to be a great night to see it because not only will we show the film, but our incredible musicians, “Stew” Stewart and Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange, The Negro Problem, She’s Gotta Have It), will also play live! The terrific organizers of the festival have given the film its own program, so we’ll watch it, do a brief Q&A, then Stew and Heidi will close it out. Stew, Heidi, and our super talented animator, Thomas Curtis (Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), were able to depict the devastating system of locking people up before trial with music, animation and the words of people held in Houston’s Harris County Jail. We’re all looking forward to sharing this work live before The New Yorker publishes it next year. Please get your tickets as soon as you can, as UrbanWorld is a remarkable film festival that fills up almost as fast as shows performed by Stew and Heidi. Tickets and more info can be found in my bio (you have to scroll down to the “Criminal” thumbnail, then click on it to get to the film’s page). Check out the other films while you’re there! We’re so proud to be part of this incredible lineup! @dominiquebravo7 @sreginaldwilliams @jammi2beats @cree8tiveone @candacesmith_ @helenayhuang @eriktodddellums

1 day to go! Criminal will be premiering at @blackstarfest tomorrow, Aug 1st at 1:30PM. Reminder to get your tickets – link in bio! — Created and Directed by: @robeimbriano Lyrics and Music Written and Performed by: @notesnativesong & @heidirodewald Animation and Design by @tomfightsevilrobots Produced by @robeimbriano & @heidirodewald Executive Producers: @dominiquebravo , @reggiewilliams_ , @notesnativesong , @tomfightsevilrobots Associate Producer: @mllzlm Contributing Producers: @helenahuang_a4j & Vasi Laurence Voices: @jammi2beats , @cree8tiveone , @candacesmith_ , @helenahuang_a4j , @robeimbriano , @eriktodddellums Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards: @notesnativesong Vocals, Bass, Keyboards: @heidirodewald Drums and Percussion: @martybeller Music Recorded at trout_recording Engineered by: brycegoggintrout Additional Animation: @julias_not_creative & @barybb Interviews Produced by: @lashimba Photography by: Rob Lyall & @ivygchiu Audio by: Michael Coleman & Andrew Hulett Production Coordinator: @hashtagashbash Production Assistant: @alex.didomenico Additional Writing by: Ruby Fludzinski Additional Editing by: @adammweber & @kidtoledo Production Services Provided by @thedocumentarygroup Line Producer: @kleigerfever Production Accountant: Mara Connelly Post Production Manager: Dana Germano President: @tomyellin VP of Editorial: @gabrielletenenbaum Director of Development: @kathryn_isaac Director of Finance: @ahyellen Consulting Producer: @jonnamac For @newyorkermag : Paul Moakley, Sarah Lash, Rafael Peralta Special thanks to: @txjailproject #BlackStar2024

So proud to Exec Produce this series with Colin Kaepernick. A True Crime story about families searching for justice. Killing County is now on Hulu.

Manhattanhenge again!

Manhattanhenge! The sun setting straight down 42nd St

A very short animated film I did with the amazing team at Big Star.

It was a thrill and an honor to speak with Sherrilyn Ifill about Amend and the 14th Amendment for her org, the indispensable @naacp_ldf . You can see it on their YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/VX9StszQHII. #amend