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Robert Salyer is the Manager of Outreach and Impact at American Documentary, Inc. | POV, executing national outreach and partnership development for film-specific campaigns, educational resources and other organizational efforts, including leading the "Our America: Documentaries in Dialogue" project, an initiative that empowers PBS stations and local partners to champion civil, civic dialogue about issues that matter to their communities. To date, Robert has supported national impact campaigns for nearly sixty POV films, encompassing a range of issues and audiences.  Robert has over twenty five years of experience working in documentary film and community media.  He was a member of Appalshop, Inc. in Whitesburg, Kentucky for much of his career, directing and producing film projects centered on Appalachian culture, and has also worked on productions by CNBC, Greenpeace, HBO, and Break Thru Films, among others.  His work has screened extensively in the U.S. and abroad, and included in exhibitions such as MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and the Film Festival Dokumenter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Robert was a long-time instructor with the Appalachian Media Institute, a youth media training program, and was the lead facilitator for an international media exchange project involving emerging Indonesian media makers funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs. Robert has worked as a community organizer with the Virginia Organizing Project, taught documentary filmmaking at Kentucky State University, and was a mentor for the NYU Tisch School Immersion Program. Recently, Robert was the Producer of Portraits and Dreams, a documentary that aired nationally on PBS.