Dr. Bob's Place: Filmmaker/Screenwriter Author
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...to the website of Dr. Bob Pondillo, Ph.D., but please, call me Bob. I write/direct and produce screenplays!
Awards & Recognition
Bob Pondillo is a multi-Award Winning Filmmaker/Writer/Director/Producer —
His short narrative films, Would you Cry if I Died? (2006), My Name is Wallace (2007), Wait… (2008), and The New, True, Charlie Wu (2010), have won accolades from film festivals around the nation and the world including “Best Screenplay,” “Best Director” and more than 30 “Best of Fest” honors.
Both My Name is Wallace, and Wait… were chosen as “Official Selections” in more than 100 film festivals including the prestigious Festival de Cannes, Cannes, France -- Short Film Corner -- in 2007 and 2008.
His short narrative, The Miracles on Honey Bee Hill took top honors at more than 30 film festivals around the globe, and was translated into Czech for the Mezipatria Film Festival, Prague.
PONDILLO FILM AWARDS (partial list)
2019: Writer, feature film: Bewitching Hitler: The Coven that Beat the Nazis and Saved the World! —
“Semifinalist” – New York International Screenwriting Contest, NYC, June
2018: Writer, feature film: BOOM!Town —
“Semifinalist” – Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, September
2012-15: Writer/Producer/Director, short narrative film: Happy New Year, Mr. Kates! —
“WINNER – Best Short Screenplay 2012,” American International Film Festival: Chicago
“WINNER – Film Short, 2015,” Best Shorts Competition, La Jolla, CA, March
“WINNER – Audience Choice Award, Best Film, 2014,” November, 15, 2014, ARTLightenment
Film Festival, Nashville
2010-12: Writer/Producer/Director, short narrative film: The Miracles on Honey Bee Hill —
“WINNER - Best Achievement: Short-Screenplay, Sept. 2010,” SoCal Film Festival: Huntington
Beach, CA
“WINNER - LGBTQ Film, 2012,” Best Shorts Competition: July 16, La Jolla, CA
“WINNER - Best Short Narrative, 2012,” Big Mini Film Festival: November 16, 2012, Spike Lee
Screening Room, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
“WINNER – Best Coming of Age, Short Film,” Canada International Film Festival: April 5th - 6th,
2013, Vancouver Canada
2008-09: Writer/Producer/Director, short narrative film: The New, True, Charlie Wu —
“Best Comedy Short,” 2010 Manhattan International Film Festival, New York City, NY
“Best Comedy Short,” 2010 Smogdance International Film Festival, Pomona, CA
“Remi Gold Award,” 43rd. Annual 2010 WORLDFEST-Houston, TX
2007-08: Writer/Producer/Director, short narrative film: Wait... —
“Official Selection, 2008” of Festival de Cannes, France, Short Film Corner, Cannes
2006-07: Writer/Producer/Director, short narrative film: My Name is Wallace —
“Official Selection, 2007” - Festival de Cannes, France, Short Corner Film Exhibition, Cannes
“Best Short, 2007” - San Fernando Valley International Film Festival, Burbank, CA
“Best Actor,” “Best Screenplay,” “Best Short Comedy,” “Best of Fest, 2007” - Trail Dance Film
Festival, Duncan, OK
“Best Short, 2007” - Short Films of India Festival, Pune, India
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Best Director Award
THE MIRACLES ON HONEY BEE HILL, 2012 - Bob Pondillo” Long Beach QFilm Festival: September 14-16, longest-running gay film festival in Long Beach, California, with one of the largest LGBTQI populations in the state.)
Audience Choice Award
Best Film, HAPPY NEW YEAR, MR. KATES!, 2014, ARTLightenment Film Festival, Nashville, TN
Professor Emeritus, Robert J. Pondillo, Ph.D.,
Dr. Robert J. “Bob” Pondillo, Ph.D. (retired), is an Emeritus Professor of American Media History and Culture at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Censorship's Golden Age: The Secret Life of NBC-TV's Stockton Helffrich, America's First Network Television Censor, (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), as well as numerous journal articles on early network TV censorship. Cognella Press, San Diego, published his most recent book, American Media and Social Institutions – A Reader, released in January, 2014. His research interests include American media censorship, the interplay of news on American democracy, and issues of media and religion. When a full-time Professor at MTSU, he was also part of the Graduate School faculty in Media and Entertainment, as well as a faculty fellow, teaching and mentoring in MTSU’s Honors College program.
Dr. Pondillo is also an multi-award winning filmmaker and writer (see above), and taught the beginning and advanced Screenplay Writing classes at Middle Tennessee State University, near Nashville.
Dr. Pondillo worked in the media industry - radio, TV, and film - for more than 30-years before coming to academia. His credits include: The Voice of America, Washington, D.C.; WNBC radio, New York; ABC Radio Networks, New York; Columbia Pictures Television, Los Angeles; Paramount Pictures Television, Los Angeles; as well as more than 20 local radio and television stations from Ohio to Florida. He’s garnered four Emmy Awards for television writing and producing, and in 2002 was inducted into The Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.
Dr. Pondillo earned his undergraduate degrees (a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and a Bachelor of Science in Broadcasting) from The Ohio University at Athens. He earned his Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.