Robert Vaughn - Director / Producer

Robert started his professional career working for Roger Corman's studio as a production assistant before landing a Production Executive job at Chesler/Perlmutter Productions in 2000. Over the next 10 years, Vaughn produced and directed second unit on more than 30 television and feature films including Kari Skogland's 2003 thriller Zebra Lounge and the stylish thriller Tempo starring Hugh Dancy, Melanie Griffith, and Rachael Leigh Cook. It was at Chesler/Perlmutter where Vaughn worked closely developing projects with directors Jean-Marc Vallee, Phillip Noyce a n d Luis Mandoki. After establishing himself as a creative producer, Vaughn turned his sights to writing and quickly amassed a slew of credits: Wild Horses for HBO Pictures, Twins for Showtime and director Renny Harlin, and Firegirl for Cinemax.

In 2011, Vaughn directed the highly rated telefilm film The Santa Suit which later went on to earn him a Directors Guild of Canada Nomination and was asked to helm the critically acclaimed Canadian stage premiere of Neil LaBute's In A Forest, Dark and Deep. In 2017, Vaughn wrote and directed the telefilm High-Rise Rescue for Up, Beta and Superchannel. His latest directorial effort Lifetime's Christmas Movie Magic was well reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, and Entertainment Weekly and garnered one Canadian Screen Award nomination and three Directors Guild of Canada Award nominations. His feature directorial debut This Time stars Charles Martin Smith and Anwen O'Driscoll.