About the Writer/Director

Robert Kane Pappas was born in New York City and raised in Westchester County.  He was educated at Georgetown University and New York University Graduate Institute of Film.  After graduating he worked in Cable Television.  In the early 80's he created a non-fiction series called the Computer Moment; the pilot featured William H. Macy. He wrote and directed the Narrative features Now I Know (Lifetime Television) and Some Fish Can Fly (Artistic License, 99). Both films were partly set in Ireland.  In 2003, he directed the documentary feature Orwell Rolls In His Grave—a film that investigated the corporate conglomeration of the New Media and it's effects on our politics. The film was a culmination of a media critique that had begun when Mr. Pappas was a graduate film student at NYU, during the hostage crisis, and had interviewed the editor of the New York Post.  Mr. Pappas has written a number of screenplays (the most recent is Nantucket Sleighride) and had received a Parents Choice Award for his children's videos.