Robinder Uppal is a documentary filmmaker and interactive producer whose work centres on social justice, immigration and equality. He is co founder, together with Marc Serpa Francoeur, of Lost Time Media, a production company that has created a broad range of linear and interactive documentaries since 2013.
Their feature length interactive documentary The World in Ten Blocks premiered at Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016, before launching episodically in partnership with The Globe and Mail. Other projects include The Head and the Hand, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2018 and was listed by DOC NYC among the top twelve contenders for the Academy Award in the Documentary Short category.
In 2019, Uppal produced Haven, an award winning short documentary exploring North America’s first prescription heroin programme. The following year, he released Above the Law for CBC Docs POV, alongside the feature length documentary No Visible Trauma, an investigation into police brutality and accountability issues in Calgary. He is currently in post production on Love in the Time of Fentanyl, a feature length documentary produced in partnership with ITVS and supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Programme.
Born in Calgary to Punjabi immigrants, Uppal studied at Ryerson University, where he completed an MFA in Documentary Media.
