Holiday Specials

As you may know by now my poetry book FROM A REFUGEE OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA came out this year through Authorhouse. It’s a collection from a lifetime of writing poetry and I’m very proud of it. But you may not know that I ...

Letters - Post Harvard

After Harvard, Rob shared some inspiring email discussions with the Citizen Cinema studio team. We though the readers of Citizen Cinema would be interested, so we asked for approval from the correspondents, and they generously approved. Below are the associated letters from Nina Avedon, Tim Roessler, and Rob Nilsson. Dear Rob, Still ...

Harvard Reminder

A reminder that we're heading into Boston next week for screenings of OPENING at Boston University, on Thursday, Nov. 15, and then the three days of 9 @ Night at Harvard, Nov. 17-19. View the Harvard Film Archive's official announcement, 9 @ Night: The Films of Rob Nilsson. This is ...

Survival on the Margins

The following is the introduction by Ray Carney for the 9 @ Night screening series at Harvard University. For 30 years, San Francisco–based Rob Nilsson has been serving as the conscience and agent provocateur of low–budget American independent filmmaking. Beginning with the award–winning Northern Lights, Signal 7, and Heat ...
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The 15,000

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I've always liked the slogan, "Opinion rules the world." The 15,000 is a chronicle of opinions I'd like to have more heft in the neighborhood. I've lived long enough to realize that silence has great value. I think it's the great growing space pregnant in the seed before it blooms. And then you talk.

Every month I'll be writing on a topic related to our films: production, distribution, exhibition. Or I'll follow inspiration, desperation and other burrs under the saddle to talk about cinema, art, society ... the gamut.

I'm hoping to hear your views. I only know my own and so I'm at a disadvantage. You are 15,000 and I am one. The only way we can make progress is if you are as candid as I try to be. If you make an honest effort to cut through the mist and tell the truths... read more

9 @ Night Direcected by Rob Nilsson

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Chalk DVD Direcected by Rob Nilsson

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Heat and Sunlight DVD Direcected by Rob Nilsson

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Sampt DVD Direcected by Rob Nilsson

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