Auteur Director - Point 1

 Fatima Robinson fact file…

About - 

Fatima Robinson is 49 years old, she was born in 1971 on August 29th. She was born in Little Rock Arkansas in the United States. Fatima is a dance, music video director and choreographer. She left Little Rock at the age of 4 with her mum and two sisters to move to California where she then stayed and grew up. She graduated at the age of 16 and then worked in her mother’s hair salon but her passion was all ways dance. She won competitions to feature in music videos dancing and then her career took off.  She now lives in Beverly Hills, California with her only son Xuly. 

Accomplishments - 

Fatima has worked with some of the biggest names in the film and music industry and is extremely talented and well experienced. She has been very successful and  as of 2021 her Net Worth is $2 million dollars.

Here is a timeline of some of her greatest accomplishments and work:

• In 1992 she was recruited to choreograph a music video for Michael Jackson ‘remember the time’ which was 9 minutes long and also featured Eddie Murphy.

• Fatima won her first Best Choreography for ‘Been there done that’ by Dr Dre in 1997. 

• She has been nominated several times for the MTV Video Music Awards and she actually won this award in 2004 with the music video ‘Hey Mama’ by the Black Eyed Peas. 

• Fatima has also choreographed for a network of television commercials for Pepsi, Gap and Verizon.

• She choreographed the Black Eyed Peas halftime show for the Super Bowl XLV in 2011.

• In 2016 she was one of only two women of colour to have choreographed the Academy Awards.

Fatima Robinson is very successful in what she does but she has said that for her next steps for the future she would love to take a chance in directing but also interior designs. Her aim is to become one of the most directors in demand - which she is not far off from achieving.