Talent Guide

Robert Jury

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Directing Lab 2011, Screenwriting Lab 2010

Bio

Robert Jury has written feature film screenplays for Twentieth Century Fox and HBO Films and is a past winner of the ABC/Disney Writers Fellowship. He has also worked in feature development for production companies with deals at Touchstone Pictures and Warner Brothers. Jury’s screenplay, Working Man, was selected for the Film Independent (FIND) Screenwriters Lab as well as the FIND Directors Lab. Producers Clark Peterson and David Koplan are attached to the project and Jury will direct in what will mark his first feature. Jury is also presently collaborating on a feature film project with musician, actor and director M. Shawn Crahan, founding member of the metal band Slipknot. Raised on a farm in Iowa, Jury graduated from the University of Florida and began his career as a Production Coordinator with Universal Studios Florida’s Television and Film Department in Orlando.

Current Project

Working Man (Narrative Feature)

Logline

After suffering an inconsolable loss, an aging factory worker seeks solace by returning to his old factory job despite the fact that the plant has closed. The man gains an unexpected ally, is reluctantly elevated to local celebrity status and is forced to confront his haunting past.