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{{short description|American film director}}
 
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'''Robinson Devor''' is an American film director, screenwriter and editor. He is also a film professor at [[Cornish College of the Arts]].
Devor has directed both documentaries as well as fiction films; his filmography includes narrative works such as ''[[The Woman Chaser]]'' (1999) and ''[[Police Beat]]'' (2005), and his documentary work includes ''[[Zoo (2007 film)|Zoo]]'' (2007), and ''Pow Wow'' (2018).<ref name="powwow">{{citeand news|last=Upchurch|first=Michael|date=March 1, 2018|title='Pow Wow':Suburban SeattleFury director ponders stunning California valley|work=[[The Seattle Times]]|url=https://www(2024).seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/pow-wow/|access-date=September 15, 2020}}</ref>''
[[File:Robinson Devor.jpg|thumb|Devor in New York, 2017]]
Devor has directed both documentaries as well as fiction films; his filmography includes narrative works such as ''[[The Woman Chaser]]'' (1999) and ''[[Police Beat]]'' (2005), and his documentary work includes ''[[Zoo (2007 film)|Zoo]]'' (2007), and ''Pow Wow'' (2018).<ref name="powwow">{{cite news|last=Upchurch|first=Michael|date=March 1, 2018|title='Pow Wow': Seattle director ponders stunning California valley|work=[[The Seattle Times]]|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/pow-wow/|access-date=September 15, 2020}}</ref>
 
== Early life ==
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=== ''[[Suburban Fury]]'' (2024) ===
Robinson Devor ‘s newest documentary, “Suburban Fury” debuted at the 2024 New York Film Festival and went on to win the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival. The film achieved a 100% percent Rotten Tomatoes score, with Variety calling it “a rapt documentary thriller.”
By 2010, Devor had begun work on a documentary about [[Sara Jane Moore]], the woman responsible for the 1975 [[attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Guerrasio |first1=Jason |title=Robinson Devor Making Doc on Ford Attempted Assassin |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/4527-robinson-devor-making-doc-on-ford-attempted-assassin/ |website=Film Independent |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref> The completed project, titled ''Suburban Fury'' was selected to screen in the Main Slate section of the [[2024 New York Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Suburban Fury |url=https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/films/suburban-fury/ |website=Film at Lincoln Center |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref>
 
=== Future projects ===
 
 
Devor is entering pre-production on an adaptation of [[Kenneth Patchen]]’s anti-war novel ''[[The Journal of Albion Moonlight]]'' starring Will Patton and co-written by Michael McConville ("Pow Wow").
 
==References==