Rob VanAlkemade

Rob VanAlkemade

Rob VanAlkemade (born 1970, Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American documentary filmmaker.

Biography

Rob VanAlkemade began his career as, variously, a film director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist, and editor in 1995. His documentary short "Preacher with an Unknown God", about performance artist and political activist Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, won a Sundance Film Festival Jury Award in 2006 and led to a 2007 documentary feature "What Would Jesus Buy?", about the group's month-long anti-consumerism tour across the U.S.

After living in New York for many years, VanAlkemade currently resides in Los Angeles.

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