Robert D. Morais

Sings bass. Along with Gaston Rochon's a cappella group, he once recorded the commemorative song for the 150th anniversary of the Lac St-Jean region, in the province of Québec, Canada.

2012 February. He is now a member of the ARRQ, the Québec film directors' association.

Robert was an active DGC [Directors Guild of Canada] member, sitting on the board of directors for the DGC (2008-2009) as the secretary-treasurer.

Was on the board of directors for the DGC (2007-2008) as the Production Managers representative.

August 2006. Danced a tango, along with 38 other dancers, in front of 40,000 people for the televised opening ceremony of the 1st World Outgames in Montréal.

He was an active member of the ACCT [Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television], sitting on the Board of Directors, in the province of Quebec [2004-2006].

His film, 'Sous Un Soleil Insolite', won the People's Choice Award at L'Université de Montréal student film festival in 1990.

Owned a 1983 CB1000, Honda, 10 speed, dual transmission motorcycle, which he bought in Santa Monica, California while on tour with the 'Cirque du Soleil - Nouvelle Expérience'.

Trained in International Ballroom dancing, by the amazing Méryem Rainville-Pearson, he became a teenage bronze medal world champion representing Canada in Germany, in 1973, with the dance group [Les Myrifiques].

Robert was in high school in Montréal, Québec, during the 1970 Québec October Crisis and remembers vividly the military preparations, on his way to school.

Robert Donat Morais is a world champion ballroom dancer and an award-winning film producer. He wrote, directed & acted in his first theater play while starting his first year of high school, at 11 years old. He was then juror #4, on the school play of "12 Angry Men", that same year. Morais was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, to Monique Lanthier, a bank teller, and Réal Morais, a successful entrepreneur in the office supply business with several stores to his name. His mother was French-Canadian, with Austrian ancestry, while his father was an acadian from New Brunswick, with Portuguese ancestry. Alas, the divorce of his parents and the arrival of an abusive stepmother, drastically altered a promising artistic future, but he still succeeded to move on. . . with enough self-discovery having gone on since. Morais started to study ballroom dancing privately at 12 years old and later on at the University. He danced: Québec folklore, ballroom [international modern & latin], ballet, tap, modern [José Limon & Martha Graham] & baroque. Winning several competitions locally, provincially (Québec), throughout Canada and finally becoming a world champion at 17 in Essen, Germany. Robert's love of the movies, starting at a very young age, is what made him choose this art-form above all the others. And it's while at University that he started a more than 30 year career in the movie business, becoming an award-winning film producer, a successful 1st Assistant Director and Production Manager and a film and theater director.