Robert was born and raised in South East London before moving in his teenage years to the South East coast. Robert attended the MET Film School based in Ealing studios and moved to London to pursue filmmaking full time. His Graduation short film entitled "My Hero" became the premise for his first feature film entitled "Hard Tide"which premiered at Raindance Film Festival in 2015 and was released by Metrodome in 2016 to a good overall response culminating in a four star review from Total Film magazine.