---
name: "Robert Fyvolent"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-fyvolent"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:47:36.270306+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Robert Fyvolent

Producer. Born 1 January 1951 in Tampa, Florida.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1951, Tampa, Florida
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111364141, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1435457/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54779

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)*](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md) (87)

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## Biography

Robert Fyvolent is an American film producer and entertainment lawyer. He produced the documentary *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), directed by Questlove and built from 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival footage, alongside David Dinerstein and Joseph Patel. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and a Grammy Award for Best Music Film.

Fyvolent is from Tampa, Florida. He studied political science at Tulane University and law at South Texas College of Law and Loyola Law School. He worked as counsel at Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment, then headed business and legal affairs at Newmarket Films. He shares a writing credit on the thriller *Untraceable* (2008).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md)

## Also known for

- *Untraceable* (2008), Screenplay

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