conéme was created in 2016 by robert colom.
Photo by Nicole Combeau
Robert Colom (he/him) is a writer-producer, film curator, and graphic artist from Miami. His work illuminates stories of Florida and the Latin American diaspora, with a focus on the sociocultural inheritances of South Florida’s immigrant populations.
“Mountains” (2023), Robert’s first narrative feature as co-writer/producer, world premiered at Tribeca Festival, where it was awarded a Special Jury Mention in the U.S. Narrative Feature Competition. “Mountains” premiered internationally at TIFF, and was honored with two Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations in 2024.
Robert is the founder and director of Cinemóvil, a free mobile repertory cinema touring Miami neighborhoods with a program of classic and contemporary films from Latin America and the Caribbean.
He is a member of Third Horizon, a creative collective dedicated to developing, producing, exhibiting, and distributing work which gives voice to stories of the Caribbean, its diaspora, and other marginalized & underrepresented spaces in the Global South. He has been a programmer for their flagship initiative, Third Horizon Film Festival, since 2021.
Robert’s narrative work has won top prizes at Berlinale, BlackStar, IndieMemphis, and Miami Film Festival, and has been distributed by HBO, PBS, and Criterion Channel.
His work has been generously supported by Film Independent, European Film Market, US in Progress, 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. He is currently in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, FL.
Artist Statement
Across the mediums of screenwriting, producing, and film curation, 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. Through investigations of spatial and narrative belonging, I explore the cultural synapses between Miami, Latin America, and the Caribbean as they materialize across the diasporic space to inform the cultural inheritance of South Florida’s immigrant population.
© Filmes Conéme LLC Established in 2016. Miami, FL.