Robert Osborne is a best selling author in Canada, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist. He’s spent more than twenty-five years working for network television shows and developed a parallel career as a feature writer, providing articles for the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and the National Post.
In 2012 he moved into the documentary field, first working as a script editor for The Beaver Whisperers on CBC’s The Nature of Things. During the past ten years, he researched, directed, wrote and produced the documentaries Unstoppable: The Fentanyl Epidemic; The Third Dive: The Death of Rob Stewart and Malcom is Missing.
Robert has won multiple RTNDA awards and a CAJ award for Investigative Journalism. In 2009 he received a Citation of Merit from the Governor General’s Michener Awards for a documentary on police accountability. In 2018 he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Documentary for Unstoppable.
Robert has also published a non-fiction mystery book called The Third Dive, based on the documentary by the same title and he has also just published his second book, Malcom is Missing.