ROY WOL
Writer, Director, Producer
Roy Wol is a NY Based Spanish-Middle Eastern-Latino-Jewish Producer/Writer/Director and a 2022 Cannes Producers Network fellow. He continuously serves as a South by Southwest Film Producing mentor, and holds the coveted Producers Guild of America mark. He is also a two-time Independent Filmmaker Project (THE GOTHAM) fellow for episodic and narrative labs, and a 2021 European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) fellowship recipient (Luxembourg, France, Spain).
Roy is a Third-Culture Kid (TCK) and a serial immigrant who’s lived in Turkey, Argentina, Spain, Israel, Canada, and the USA. He’s currently based in New York City, running the critically acclaimed production company Studio Autonomous.
He’s an intersectionality advocate and has dedicated his life to elevating underrepresented communities while also serving at as a board member of Hollywood Radio & Tv Society.
His critically acclaimed feature film The Garden Left Behind won [Audience Award] at SXSW and was named as one of the top 40 best LGBTQ films of all time by Rotten Tomatoes. The film provided jobs to 48 people from the transgender community and was selected as a case study by Film Independent, LA at the 2020 Film Forum.
Americanish won the 2021 Grand Jury prize at Heartland, CAAMFest, Asian American International, and the New York Asian Film Festival and is the first American-Muslim rom-com directed by an American-Muslim Hijabi woman, Iman Zawahry
Autom Reign (a Gotham Lab project) is based on Doppelbänger (Fantasia Film Festival) and available on Gunpowder&Sky’s DUST Network by Emmy-nominated Sundance alumni Sofian Khan and Academy nominee Milcho Manchevski’s Bikini Moon with an all-star cast.