BIO
Born in Hungary in 1949, Robert Lantos emigrated with his family to Uruguay in 1958, coming to Canada in 1963. His family settled in Montreal, where he attended high school. He then went on to McGill University where he finished his post-graduate studies in Communications in 1972, the same year he co-founded Vivafilm, a motion picture distribution company.
In 1975, Mr. Lantos added RSL Entertainment, a movie production company established as a companion to Vivafilm. The following year, he produced his first feature film, L'Ange et la Femme.
Over the next 10 years he produced 12 motion pictures at RSL, including In Praise of Older Women, Suzanne and Joshua Then and Now. In 1985, both RSL and Vivafilm were folded into a new company of which Mr. Lantos was co-founder and co-Chairman - Alliance Communications Corporation. He became Chairman and CEO in 1987. In 1998 he sold his controlling interest in Alliance in order to focus on the creative process. He now produces motion pictures at his boutique production company, Serendipity Point Films, whose credits include Men With Brooms, Ararat, eXistenZ, and Picture Claire.
In his community, Lantos is the recipient of a wide number of awards, including the Toronto Arts Award, the CFTPA's Chetwynd Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Business of Filmmaking in Canada", and most recently, the J. Stuart Mackay Communicator of the Year Award. He is a past Chairman of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and a past Director of the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies.
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