Robert Roessel

During his undergraduate work at the Univ of Minnesota, Roessel was a directing intern under Liviu Ciulei at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre. Throughout his graduate work in England, he studied under Trevor Nunn at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon. It was as a volunteer for the Minneapolis Film Festival in 1980 that he was hired by film director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) as his assistant on (The World According to Garp). Roessel worked for Hill and Warner Bros. for several years developing various film projects. In 1989, Roessel initiated a film and lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That same year, he founded the Berkshire Film Society which produced the Berkshire Film Festival and hosted Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Wise, Arthur Penn, James Ivory and George Roy Hill during its first year. Recently, Roessel was the acting film commissioner for Puerto Vallarta and co-produced two films in Mexico with Roger Corman for the Syfy channel. He was the director of a film festival in Puerto Vallarta (2004-2011). Roessel is co-writing the personal memoirs of casting icon Marion Dougherty.