Talent Guide

Rob Connolly

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2022

Bio

Rob Connolly is a writer/director from rural North Carolina with a background in art and design. A graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, his BAFTA/LA award-winning thesis film “Our Neck of the Woods” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before joining Eric Fischl’s traveling art exhibition America: Now and Here. Connolly directed his first feature, Edge of Winter, starring Joel Kinnaman, Tom Holland and Percy Hynes for Sony Pictures Worldwide/Drive Films while co-producing credits include Avan Jogia’s Door Mouse (Hayley Law, Famke Janssen), The New Romantic (Winner Best First Feature SXSW) and North of Normal (Sarah Gadon, Robert Carlyle).

Current Project

Lavender Country

Logline

Lavender Country is the true story of Patrick Haggerty and his band of radical Gay Liberationists as they create the world’s first overtly-queer country album in 1973, chronicling their fight for survival, freedom, and true intimacy amid the sexual revolution.