- Program Chair of Digital Film ATL at SAE Institute North America, IATSE Member, BA, MFA, Ph.D. Student ~ Hakim Robinson was raised in The Bronx, New York. In his younger years, he grew up in the same neighborhood as filmmaking icon Stanley Kubrick. He also graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School, the same High School as fellow Alumni Martin Scorsese. Hakim started his career in the film and television industry in 2005 and has been moving up ever since. He is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Directing for Motion Picture & Television and has graduated with honors from The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), acquiring his Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Television Producing. He is a certified sound engineer, a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a member of IATSE Local 479. Hakim Robinson is dedicated to the art form and disciplined in his craft. He is also committed to the production and exhibition of feature, documentary, and short films that up-lift and inspire. He will continue his studies at the university level and in the field of film and television. His mission is to work utilizing his directing, producing, editing, sound and construction skills or to be hired to consult within the industry. You can always find him behind the camera bringing new and creative artwork to the forefront.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Eyes Entertainment, Inc.
- Hakim Robinson grew up in the rough streets of the South Bronx, where pretty much once a night gunshots and sirens were the sounds that filled the air. He remembers his mother hiding him in the closet while a burglar who came in from the fire escape was taking things from their apartment. His parents made sure he and his sisters didn't become another lethal statistic by keeping them close in sight and corralling them.
When Hakim was eight-year-old, his Mom and Dad managed to move the family to a safer neighborhood in the north Bronx. On a lark, my mother sent me on an audition for a "Grape Nuts," cereal commercial. Not only did he book it, it sadly can still be seen on YouTube, which is often the basis of jokes that my teenage kids hurl my way. Interestingly enough, at this time, he discovered his love of film. Specifically, anything his uncle Frank Adu Robinson was in he found fascinating. You could find Hakim glued to the TV watching Kojak or Across 110th street in which his uncle starred.
Hakim's parents were strict, that didn't stop him and his friends from sneaking into the Wakefield Theater through a side entrance, to see any R-rated movies. While watching the horror blaxploitation classic Blacula, the neck-sucking monster throws a man through a glass store front window and the loud sounds, and visuals sent Hakim bolting out of the theater, huffing and puffing his way home. Soon after his scare at the neighborhood theatre, his father brought home a VHS player, this was a game-changer. He spent long hours fast forwarding, rewinding, studying scenes from some Bad Boys with Sean Penn, Phantasm, and John Carpenter's The thing. This was my Film School 101.
Hakim's love of music lead to DJing in high school, house parties, and block parties in the neighborhood, which more often abruptly ended when cop cars rolled up, and shut us down. Wanting to continue his past experience prepared him for the world of sound engineering, and this eventually thrust him into sound recording on NYU student thesis films. While on set, he noticed there was a language he was unfamiliar with, and he didn't do well with staying in the dark, so when they broke for lunch, the student directors, and cinematographers, were kind enough to answer his questions. Shortly thereafter, he wrote and directed (and, unfortunately, starred in) a narrative short suspense thriller that graced the screen at the Martha's Vineyard African Film Festival.
The work on that film, and his investment in a film camera that brought forth and honed his visual storytelling got the attention of some people shooting a film in Atlanta, so he moved south. After working on multiple independent projects and joining IATSE, he decided to go to film school at the Savannah College of Art and Design. At SCAD, he furthered honed his directing skills, one of which, the feature film, "A Family on Edge" can still be found on iTunes, Amazon Prime, and TUBI.
After graduating from SCAD, he still felt that he lacked the knowledge to bring forth his artistry and visual storytelling skills. Pursuing his MFA at Academy of Art University, brought him to another level of filmmaking.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Eyes Entertainment, Inc.
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