Robert Petit

Film director and co-director of the creative studio Milkwood

Rob is a director working to colliding the disciplines of geography and filmmaking to tell stories that challenge existing narratives of identity, landscape and belonging. A graduate in Directing from the National Film and Television School Rob is also co-director of the creative studio Milkwood. He has spent the last four years collaborating with the acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane on a cinematic documentary adaptation of the bestselling book Underland, which premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival in June 2025. Prior to Underland, the two Robs made the critically acclaimed experimental film Upstream (BBC Four). Billed as a dream-flight into wildness and winter, Upstream was filmed entirely from the air and follows the course of a Scottish river to its source in the Cairngorm mountains. Rob is working on a number of other feature and installation projects. He lives on a boat.