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Kim Roberts

Kim Roberts

Writing

Biography

Kim Roberts, A.C.E. is an Emmy-winning editor of feature documentaries. Her recent work includes The Hunting Ground, American Revolutionary: the Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Waiting for 'Superman' (Paramount), Food, Inc. (nominated for a 2010 Oscar), Autism the Musical (HBO) and Inequality for All (Radius). Kim won an Emmy for Autism the Musical (HBO) and Inequality for All (Radius). Kim won an Emmy for Autism the Musical, her third nomination. She was nominated for an Eddie award for Food, Inc. and Waiting for `Superman' from the American Cinema Editors.

Known For

Couples Therapy
7.3

Far from reality-show caricatures, this is true documentary filmmaking that brings viewers into the authentic and visceral experience of weekly therapy with four couples. World-class therapist Dr. Orna Guralnik deftly guides the couples through the minefield of honest confrontation with each other and with themselves, revealing the real-life struggles — and extraordinary breakthroughs — typically hidden behind closed doors.

Couples Therapy

2019
Unrest
6.9

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.

Unrest

2017
Food, Inc.
7.4

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

Food, Inc.

2008
Wilderness Survival for Girls
5.2

Three girls take a pre-college trip to a cabin in the woods. Their night is interrupted by a visitor who, they begin to believe, may have killed a babysitter some years before. An original twist on the teens-in-peril film.

Wilderness Survival for Girls

2004
Command and Control
6.8

September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Force member and transforms the lives of everyone on the base. Honing in on a single case of so-called "human error", Command and Control juxtaposes precision on a minute scale against the gargantuan risks inherent in the United States' aggressive nuclear proliferation policy during the Cold War.

Command and Control

2016
Merchants of Doubt
7.4

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

Merchants of Doubt

2014
Autism: The Musical
6.9

Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production.

Autism: The Musical

2007
The Fall of Fujimori
7.3

A character-driven, political-thriller documentary that explores the volatile events that defined Alberto Fujimoris decade-long reign of Peru: His meteoric rise from son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his self-coup that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary.

The Fall of Fujimori

2006