Writer & Producer Robert Kalm

Robert Kalm, the founder of Headless Film, is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer and a graduate of the NYU film school. After producing local television and independent film in New York City for six years, Robert is concentrating on his own projects. While developing a pilot series for public television and writing the thesis for his MFA, he still works as an independent producer.

Robert last produced The Darkness of This Reading, the film debut of Obie winning playwright Richard Maxwell and his New York City Players. Robert received an Emmy in 2003 for producing Ground Zero: A Ceremony Without Words. It was his sixth Emmy nomination.

Robert’s latest endeavor is his non-profit Bumpspark Project, a pilot series for public television. Bumpspark* brings together leading experts from unrelated fields of study to cross-pollinate the ideas of their work. The fascinating, expansive conversations are shot documentary style, on location, at stimulating environments familiar to the participants, their labs, studios, and homes. A day or two's worth of ruminations is edited down into rich hour-long episodes.

Robert was producer-at-large for four years for New York City Television under the Rudolph Giuliani administration where he sat as news desk editor for one year, piloted the station’s first website, created a documentary series, numerous promotions and public service announcements, and shaped the station’s marketing campaign. Previously he worked in New Line Cinemas' merchandising department promoting films like Jim Carrey's The Mask. Robert has been everything from an assistant editor to a cameraman to a script reader to understand his chosen medium. He has worked on Hollywood projects like Before & After and independent New York films like If Lucy Fell.

Robert graduated from New York University in 1994 receiving a BFA in Film Production from the Tisch School of the Arts and a minor in General Business from the Stern School of Business. He divides his time between New York City, the White Mountains of New Hampshire and his family in Fairfield County, Connecticut.