Robert D. Morais
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Robert D. Morais is a Canadian Directors Guild film director and scriptwriter, but also a teenage world champion ballroom dancer and an award-winning gymnast & film & commercial producer.
Morais was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, to Monique Lanthier, a bank teller, and Réal Morais, a very wealthy entrepreneur in the office supply business with several stores to his name. His mother was French-Canadian, with Austrian ancestry, while his father was a French-Acadian from New Brunswick, with Portuguese ancestry.
He wrote, directed & acted in his first theater play while starting his first year of high school, at 11 years old. That same year, he was cast as juror #4, on the school play of "12 Angry Men".
Morais started to study ballroom dancing privately at 12 years old under the tutelage of the amazing Méryem Rainville-Pearson and later on at the University. He danced: Québec folklore, ballroom [international modern & latin], ballet, tap, modern [José Limon & Martha Graham] & baroque. Winning several competitions locally, provincially (Québec), throughout Canada and finally becoming a world champion at 17 in Essen, Germany.
While at University, he started a 40 years career in the movie business, becoming an award-winning film producer, a successful 1st Assistant Director, as well as a film and theater director.
He created his own film company in 1993: the OAK and the WILLOW film (c), developing personal, engaging and inspiring film projects.
Morais was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, to Monique Lanthier, a bank teller, and Réal Morais, a very wealthy entrepreneur in the office supply business with several stores to his name. His mother was French-Canadian, with Austrian ancestry, while his father was a French-Acadian from New Brunswick, with Portuguese ancestry.
He wrote, directed & acted in his first theater play while starting his first year of high school, at 11 years old. That same year, he was cast as juror #4, on the school play of "12 Angry Men".
Morais started to study ballroom dancing privately at 12 years old under the tutelage of the amazing Méryem Rainville-Pearson and later on at the University. He danced: Québec folklore, ballroom [international modern & latin], ballet, tap, modern [José Limon & Martha Graham] & baroque. Winning several competitions locally, provincially (Québec), throughout Canada and finally becoming a world champion at 17 in Essen, Germany.
While at University, he started a 40 years career in the movie business, becoming an award-winning film producer, a successful 1st Assistant Director, as well as a film and theater director.
He created his own film company in 1993: the OAK and the WILLOW film (c), developing personal, engaging and inspiring film projects.