Robert Patton-Spruill is an independent film director, screenwriter, producer, professor, master distiller, and real estate empresario.
He currently resides in Winchester, New Hampshire with his wife, Patricia Moreno, who he met during his time at BU and his only child, Alejandra Spruill, a Boston Latin School and Emerson College graduate.
After his first film, Patton-Spruill directed Body Count (1998), a straight-to-video Showtime feature, after which he and his wife Patti Moreno over a 10-year period opened their own production company, studio, and rental business for low-budget filmmakers in his home town of Roxbury, MA.
[6] The music video Spruill directed for the popular hip hop band Public Enemy led to the production of the full-length documentary Welcome to the Terrordome (2007).
[7] Spruill made the documentary Do It Again in 2010, which followed Boston Globe reporter Geoff Edgers on his irrational quest to reunite the classic rock band The Kinks.