Roberto Mitrotti is an artist, writer and filmmaker working at the confluence of film, television, digital media, art and fashion. Arriving to New York from Italy in the ‘70s, Mitrotti launched a retail enterprise that became one of the highest-profile fashion concepts in the U.S. with locations on New York’s Madison Avenue and Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive. Catering to people from the arts and entertainment, his clients ranged from Andy Warhol, Elton John, Al Pacino, Spielberg, John Lennon and the singer Madonna. Invited by Michael Mann, the creator of Miami ViceTV series, Mitrotti produced the pastel looks for the series’ stars, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, that became a symbol of the era. He was hired by MCA-Universal Studios to explore the feasibility of a Miami Vicemen’sline. After his fashion career, Mitrotti dedicated himself to his early passion, painting, with shows in New York, Los Angeles, Zurich and Florence. In 1990 an invitation to exhibit his work in the first commercial gallery in Russia since the 1917 Revolution led to his organizing “Pools” in Moscow, a group show of some of the top American artists including Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney and Francesco Clemente. The show gathered international press recognition and travelled to galleries and Museums around the US. His conceptual work led him to curate the exhibition “Art=Money?” with 25 artists ranging from Jeff Koons to Arman which challenged the notion of art as a pure form and revealed the incestuous relationship between art, galleries and collectors in shaping the value of artwork. Mitrotti’s show inspired a Smithsonian exhibition, “The Realm of the Coin,” which travelled to 17museums over a three-year period. Mitrotti was invited to participate in “Monumental Propaganda,” a show curated by Komar & Melamid that salvaged Soviet-era monuments; it debuted in Moscow and traveled to a dozen international museums. In 1991, Mitrotti founded RPM Media, a digital media company, to produce documentaries and TV programs. One series, Rock Revolutions– based on the premise that rock-‘n’-roll brought down the Berlin Wall — was aired in over 20 countries. He directed Sylvia’s Path, hosted and produced by Bill Cosby, and seen on PBS Television. He produced and hosted the popular series, The Compulsive Traveler, that aired on CBS during Sunday afternoons and topped a 4.5 rating and an 11 share from 2002 to 2007 with the highest Nielsen ratings of any comparable show. In addition to CBS, Mitrotti’s programs have been aired on ABC, CNN, CNBC, the FOX Network as well as Discovery, TLN and EWTN. Mittroti programs have sold to television broadcasters worldwide, including the BBC and Channel 4 in England, La Cinq, Canal Jimmy and KTO in France, La Sette in Italy, YLE in Finland, RTSI in Switzerland, SABC in South Africa, TVP in Poland, TV Luna of Slovakia, Tel Ad in Israel, OyTV in Iceland, Imagen TV in Argentina, EATV in Russia, Chinese TV Network in Hong Kong, Visual Mandiri TV in Indonesia, Q Channel in South Korea, Global Japan in Japan, CLT in Germany and Indian TV. RPM Media’s multimedia division has created a wide range of successful communications programs for some of the world’s most prestigious destinations, cruise lines, resorts and hotels. His clients have included over 30 tourist boards, over 50 luxury hotels and resorts. With a travel library over 1,000 hours of digital footage shot around the world, RPM Media licenses its footage through Getty Images.[1]Mitrotti is also a successful film writer and director. Heco-writer the screenplay for the 20thCentury Fox movie, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, that starred Carol Kane, Bud Cort, Marisa Berenson and Klaus Kinsky. In 2015, he wrote and directed Stealing Chanel, a feature-length romantic story set in New York in worldwide distribution through Lifetime Entertainment and A&E Networks. It was selected for the Carmel International Film Festival and earned the film Best Director at the International Film Festival of Manhattan.
