MARY ROBERTSON // Director and Producer
Mary Robertson is a producer and director of non-fiction media. For television she has produced and directed long and short form documentary programs for major broadcasters. She recently completed work producing two hours of ‘This Emotional Life’, PBS’s popular series on happiness. Other television credits include producing and directing work for PBS’s ‘NOVA scienceNOW’, ‘History Detectives’, and ‘Current TV’. For radio, Mary has produced and reported several segments for public radio’s award-winning series ‘This American Life’. In independent film Mary's work includes the documentary short ‘The Bear Hunter’, which screened around the world and at dozens of Film Festivals including Silverdocs, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, and the New York Underground Film Festival. Along the way she has been fortunate to collaborate with and learn from some of the best storytellers working today, including: Bill Moyers, Maysles Films, David Grubin Productions, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, and Chris Wilcha. Mary studied at Wesleyan University, majoring in film and graduating with honors. She now resides in Brooklyn.