Pure Grain is a swell company. It swells between one and forty people depending on the project.
Mostly, though, Pure Grain is Roberto Miller directing and producing videos for clients such as HP and Apple.
Roberto also makes award-winning digital films that have been broadcast in Europe and the U.S. and screened at film festivals such as Sundance.
After completing a far too sensible study of computer science in college, Roberto fled all job prospects and become a journalist abroad. He wrote articles about sailing, music, and off-beat curiosities for The Wall Street Journal and other publications who had no staff reporters in obscure and quirky places.
As luck would have it, editors were often annoyed by his visual style of writing and prodded him to pick up a camera. He did so and soon left to make films with then prototype digital cameras.
Film festivals took notice of his work, as did the press: Mail Bonding, Foray into Digital Filmmaking, American Cinematographer, April 1995.
Since then, Roberto has written, produced, and directed stories for the screen, large and small. His clients include HP, Apple, and Sony.
Currently, he is focused on making a feature film, due out in 2010.
Ultimately, he owes the "o" in his nickname to family roots in New Orleans and Central America, and adventurelust to a grandfather who left Paris in 1932.