Colorist Robert Arnold has been doing color grading and video finishing work for independent documentary and narrative filmmakers for over a decade out of his facility in San Francisco. Formerly working under the name of his production company, Lateral Films, he has recently rechristened his post-production business RDAcolor.

His work as colorist can be seen in such films as My Name is Andrea (2022), Stray (2020), Freeland (2020), The Seer and the Unseen (2019), and The Gospel of Eureka (2018), among many others.

Click over to the projects page to see some of the many films he’s graded. A more complete list of his credits can be found on imdb.

His own films include the narrative feature The Exchange (2014), and a feature documentary, The Key of G (2007), which aired nationally on PBS.

Robert studied Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley; Film Production at San Francisco State University; and holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Colorist Robert Arnold, wearing a yellow t-shirt, sitting in a cafe.