conéme was created in 2016 by robert colom.
Robert Colom (he/him) is a Cuban film producer, writer, and graphic designer born in Miami, whose work illuminates stories of Florida and the Latin American diaspora. He is a member of the Caribbean creative collective Third Horizon, and has been a programmer for their flagship initiative, Third Horizon Film Festival, since 2021. He has been a fellow of New Orleans Film Society’s Southern Producers Lab (in 2018 and 2020), and as well as a selected participant in The Gotham Project Market (in 2021’s U.S. Fiction Features section, and 2022’s US Features in Post section, “Mountains”). He has produced and collaborated on projects with Sesame Workshop, Film Independent, and A24. His films have played worldwide, including most notably at Sundance Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, and Berlinale, and have been acquired by HBO, PBS, and Criterion Channel.
Mountains, his first feature film as writer-producer, is currently in post-production.
In 2018, Robert co-founded the independent zine publishing stamp Saudade County Press, and later released siete poemas de amor (todos desesperados), a very short collection of love poems.
In 2019, Robert became the Operations Director and lead designer at Bookleggers Library, a nonprofit dedicated to permeating Miami with books; and in 2020, he founded Cinemóvil, a free mobile repertory cinema touring Miami neighborhoods with a program of classic and contemporary films from Latin America and the Caribbean.
His work has been generously supported by The Gotham, Oolite Arts, Locust Projects & The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, O, Miami Poetry Festival, Maven Leadership Collective, Awesome Foundation, New Orleans Film Society, and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Artist Statement
My practice evaluates understandings of identity through the influences of place, desire, and relationality. Through characters and images that place themselves in direct opposition to hereditary systems of belief, my work seeks to deliberately reveal and disrupt unconscious bias, and petition for new folklore.
© Filmes Conéme LLC Established in 2016. Miami, FL.