LECTURE/SCREENINGS

Below are some of the public speaking engagements on my calendar this year. It is a pleasure meeting these varied audiences and hearing their reactions to and questions about these projects. 

Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnatti

Newton Chapter of Jack and Jill, Inc

Boston University Dental School

Newton Free Library

Wellesley Free Library

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay, Wisconsin

For more information on booking Roberto for a live or zoom lecture/screening:  info@celestialmedia.com 

“getting dot OLDER” is a new public television docu-talk series I started filming in 2014 about aging across America. It focuses on our generation – Baby Boomers! Each half-hour episode includes heartfelt, funny, poignant and tragic revelations from diverse Americans – so far, from Alaska to Puerto Rico. My goal is to get every kind of American in this show. The 13-episode Season 1 debuted in January on 200 TV stations across the USA. This series is distributed by American Public Television. Audience response is terrific, and more TV channels are signing up every week. We’re now working on Season 2, slated to premiere in Fall, 2022. Every week, viewers send comments, photos and home videos for use on the show; apply to be interviewed; and take our 27-question survey about their experience of aging. See where to watch, contribute your thoughts to this national conversation, and apply to share your story on the show: www.gettingdotolder.com

“World’s Greatest Cemeteries” is my new travel/history public television series about the most beautiful and historic burial grounds on earth. Each half-hour episode takes us to one of these sculptural parks, where we meet diverse, inspiring people from the past who helped make our world what it is today. The program features historical reenactments, gorgeous cinematography, and brief interviews with top historians, tour guides, landscape architects, horticulturalists and other experts. World’s Greatest Cemeteries debuted across the USA in October, with rave reviews and cemetery recommendations from around the world. This series is distributed by American Public Television. See where to watch, read reviews, check out our trailers and share your cemetery story! We’ve already begun filming Season 3! www.worldsgreatestcemeteries.com

“Legacy of Love” is my half-hour documentary about Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott’s meeting and romance in Boston in the 1950’s, hosted by EMMY-award winning journalist Rev. Liz Walker. It features dramatized historical reenactments; exclusive, never-before-seen interviews with people who knew and worked with the Kings in the 1950’s, and insider items like the juicy details of their first date! This project debuted on WGBH/Boston and is now featured on their WORLD Channel nationwide. WATCH NOW ON PBS.ORG. “Legacy of Love” is funded and supported by King Boston and The Boston Foundation, and is distributed by the National Educational Telecommunications Association.

Harvard Forest — Last Spring, I was thrilled to work again with Harvard Forest’s Long Term Ecological Research scientists. Clarisse Hart, Director of Outreach & Education, led their new Virtual Site Review Videos Project for the National Science Foundation; and she also spearheaded the Fisher Museum of Forestry mural project with museum art consultant Eric Bessette and Nipmuc Nation representative Nia Holley. Working closely with Ms. Hart, I produced/shot five videos and a large (22 feet by 8 feet) panoramic photo mural for the museum. Taken together, it involved pre-dawn photo/video excursions to this Central Massachusetts forested region, with beautiful lakes, rivers, beaver dams and vernal pools. The museum will have a post-covid re- opening later this year.