Robert Adanto     Producer/DirectorThe Rising Tide is the directorial debut for independent documentary filmmaker Robert Adanto, who earned his MFA in Acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently working on two other documentary projects: a short film set in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya, and a second project that will take him to Tehran in December.

Since 1995 he has taught an interdisciplinary humanities course at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, CA, as well as a course dedicated to his literary mentor William Shakespeare. In 2007, Mr. Adanto was the recipient of the National Association for Independent Schools' Leading Edge Award for Global Sustainability, for the AIDS education and activism program he founded in 2006, the Crossroads Teen AIDS Ambassadors.

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