Robert Fresco (born 1943) is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. [1] He is most noted for his 1981 documentary film Steady as She Goes , for which he won the Bijou Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary [2] and was nominated for Best Director of a Documentary, [3] and as a Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1984 for his video for The Parachute Club's "Rise Up". [4]
His other documentary films have included Mudflats Living, [5] The Salvage Prince, Easter in Iglooik: Peter's Story [6] and Love, Hope and Autism, [1] and as a music video director he also did noteworthy work for Martha and the Muffins, including the videos for "Black Stations/White Stations" and "Cooling the Medium". [7] As a cinematographer his credits have included the films Winter Kept Us Warm , Firebird 2015 AD , Poetry in Motion , Comic Book Confidential , Nightstick , Wisecracks , The Twist , My Own Private Oshawa and Grass , and episodes of The Twilight Zone , The Campbells [8] and Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science . He won a Gemini Award for Best Photography in an Information Program or Series at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001 for his work on the Exhibit A episode "Beauty Shop Bandit". [9]
He has also been a partner in Gloo Studios, a firm that produced short comedy videos and special effects work for collegehumor.com. [10]