COYOTE TEETH: Teaser Poster Reveal. The New Film From Award-Winning Filmmaker Robert Aaron Mitchell

Here is the teaser poster reveal for my new film which wrapped principal photography on June 29, 2026. Post-production work has been on-going throughout the production phase of this movie. I have begun to submit the movie to film festivals. Here is the official IMDb page: Link Here

 

DIRECTOR STATEMENT 

My name is Robert Aaron Mitchell, and for the past year, I have been crafting this cinematic experience. First and foremost, the movie should speak for itself, or I have failed as a filmmaker. That being said, perhaps a little context is not a bad thing. 

I live in Dilley, Texas, which is a small town in South Texas that is the location of one of the largest detention centers in the United States of America. Its primary purpose is to incarcerate families. As of this writing on June 13, 2026, over five hundred babies have been imprisoned here. This place is run by the for-profit corporation Core Civic. The Orwellian name of this place is the South Texas Family Residential Center. In actuality, it is a concentration camp to enrich shareholders. I live next door to this monstrosity. 

I think a lot about evil. I also think about a phrase that is uttered many times, “This is not us.” These four words negate a 250-year history of the United States of America. This is us. We live, operate, and benefit from the machine and systems of cruelty of this country. 

My motivation in crafting this cinematic experience was my attempt to stay sane so I can assist people who are being devastated by the United States of America, so I can continue to decolonize my mind as well as continue the work of dismantling the systems of cruelty I live in. I am a lifelong student of Midnight Movies, and with all earnestness, I have done my best to craft a film worthy to be called weird. The movie is ultimately about complicity. 

 
 

THE BOBBY DIAMONDS STORY North American Premiere at The Toronto Smartphone Film Festival

 

                     Robert Aaron Mitchell on the red carpet at The Toronto Smartphone Film Festival 

                    With Executive Producer Sarah Dillard Mitchell

                                                    Director Robert Aaron Mitchell

Here is the post-screening Q&A

THE BOBBY DIAMONDS STORY Award Winner and Official Trailer

 

The Bobby Diamonds Story has begun it's film festival run. On September 5th the film won Best Documentary Short at the Venice Fullshot Film Festival. I am very grateful and humbled by this award as my short begins the roller coaster ride that is submitting to film festivals.

Underground poker player Bobby Diamonds steps into the spotlight in a hallucinatory, hilarious and heartfelt documentary. Here is the official trailer:

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MIDNIGHT MADNESS 2015: Robert A. Mitchell's Adventures [A Photo Gallery]

Here is a photo gallery of Robert A. Mitchell at the 2015 edition of the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival.

                                       
                                         Robert A. Mitchell interviews Patrick Stewart
                                                (Photo By: Sarah Dillard Mitchell)

                                              Takashi Miike talks to Robert A. Mitchell

                                         Malin Akerman talks with Robert A. Mitchell

                               Hanging with Legendary Cinematographer Dean Cundey

                                                Interviewing Baskin actor Gorkem Kasal

                                   Meeting director Pou-Soi Cheang at SPL 2 Premiere
                                                          (Photo By: Mike Scott)

                                             
                                                Sharing a laugh with Pou-Soi Cheang
                                                           (Photo By: Mike Scott)

                                 Speaking with producer Paco Wong at the SPL 2 Premiere
                                                            (Photo By: Mike Scott)

           
                                Interviewing Producer Brad Miska at Southbound Premiere

                           Talking to actor Luke Baines at The Girl in the Photographs Premiere

                                    Interviewing Midnight Madness Master Takashi Miike
                                                          (Photo By: Ian Goring)

THE ÉLÉPHANT CLASSIQ FILM FESTIVAL: Les Films Qui Ont Fait Le Cinéma

 "The cinema is the image and the voice of the 20th century. The first century when life was captured by an instrument of marvels: the cinematographer. Images have grown fragile over time, images that have to be restored and distributed for the world's memory." ~ Éléphant ClassiQ

                               Géarld Duchaussoy, Robert A. Mitchell, Sarah Dillard Mitchell

We currently live in this modern era of cinema where giant studio pictures have advertising campaigns that start years before a film is set to open in a theater. Marketing strategies that continue to slide into complete ridiculousness. One only has to look at the concept of the teaser trailer for the teaser trailer. The few films that even grace a chain movie theater arrive with much hype and most are gone in the blink of an eye. Relegated to bargain bins of giant corporate box stores. With the advent and rise of V.O.D and online streaming services -- which hopefully level out the playing field for all kinds of films, however are further removed from the communal ritual of going to a movie theater. Anyone who makes films, writes about films or enjoys watching movies will occasionally contemplate the current state of cinema. Movies these days can oftentimes not feel so much an art form but a very disposable entertainment.

Which brings me to the Éléphant ClassiQ film festival. A film festival in it's inaugural year, this first installment showcased classic French-language cinema. Films of French, Belgian, Swiss, African and Québec heritage resulted in a lot of variety in the programming. Elephant ClassiQ's theme was les films qui ont le cinéma which translates to movies that made cinema. With films screening from such luminaries such as Jean-Peirre Melville, Agnès Varda, Jaques Demy, Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Goddard this was a November weekend spent in the company of many cinematic greats. The curated programme was over twenty feature films, screening over the four days of the festival. One of the major highlights for me were the classic short films from Alice Guy created at the very early part of the 20th century that played before the feature films. Some examples: Les cambrioleurs (1898)  Chapellerie et charcuterie automatiques (1900),  Faust et Méphistophélès (1903) and Le tango (1905).

One of the films I was very excited to see was the restored L'armée des ombres by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film focuses on the French resistance during World War II. A sprawling, bleak tale of enormous courage in the face of great adversity. This film is Melville's epic. Here is the conversation prior to the screening with Géarld Duchaussoy and Ruy Nogueira, critique de cinéma.

Other cinema highlights were Jacques Demy's Les parapluies de Cherbourg



As well Cléo de 5 à 7 by Agnès Varda. Here is Géarld Duchaussoy's introduction.



I was also happy to see Le grand bleu by Luc Besson. A film of his I had not seen. It was very informative to see this epic character story from Monsieur Besson. The film featured exceptionally cinematography by Carlo Varini with many sequences shot underwater.

Along with the many classic films there were also belles salles de cinéma that were projecting the films. Here is the Cinéma Impérial.

The interior.

 Cinémathèque québécoise

One of the theaters.

Walking into the lobby of the Cinémathèque québécoise my eyes opened large looking at all the beautiful movie posters that were part of the exhibit celebrating the 120 years of Gaumont, the oldest cinematographic company in the world that was born at the same time as the cinema. Here are a couple of pictures:

Attending the Éléphant ClassiQ film festival was a great experience. It was wonderful to revisit old favorites and discover classic films for the first time. Huge kudos to the entire team behind this film festival who embarked on the journey to create such a great weekend showcasing many beautiful films from the past. The inaugural edition of the Éléphant ClassiQ was a beautiful celebration of cinema.

                                Robert A. Mitchell at the 2015 Éléphant ClassiQ Film Festival

SUGAR - A Short Film By Robert A. Mitchell An Update

                                         
                                                 Lilly Menard who is playing Sugar

The winter is dragging on but we are putting together the pieces for the film. We are waiting for the snow to melt and the temperature to warm up so we can get back into the woods to go shoot this movie! I am extremely pleased to announce that Ben Thompson and Ed Conley have joined the team as the musicians who are creating original music for Sugar.

I have known Ben for well over twenty five years. He is a very accomplished musician. Ben and Ed's current music project is Flee From Utah. Here is a link to their band camp page: here  and their FaceBook page here. I have heard their initial creative ideas and I'm very excited by what they are cooking up.

                                                 Ed Conley and Ben Thompson

Sugar is produced by Sarah Dillard Mitchell, Mike Scott and Robert A. Mitchell. It will be in production May 2015.

Here is the official teaser trailer for Sugar: