

obert Tate Is a documentary film and tv director whose work focuses on the creative process, capturing stories of people rising to the occasion of their own lives.
He's won the Emmy, International Documentary Association (IDA), Cine Golden Eagle, New York Festival, Taste, Telly, and James Beard awards for his varied projects on architecture, health, science, food, fashion, and culture.
Highlights include the PBS series, Diary of a Foodie, Lidia Celebrates America, Moveable Feast, the Sundance Channel’s Architecture School, and the feature docs, Eleven Minutes (Regent Releasing), The Magic Pill (Netflix), and Happy Clothes: a Film about Patricia Field (Greenwich).





Fresh off his Project Runway win, Jay McCarroll struts onto fashion’s stage, designs an Emmy dress for Heidi Klum, battles ambition, and learns that talent alone won’t stop a spectacular stumble. Hilarious and Brutal. Edited by Rob Tate.



Project Jay gives us the human angle from the post-reality TV experience."

The pleasure of "Project Jay" is in Jay's caustic, self-savaging throwaway lines ... "Physically, I hate myself," he says ... He wonders how life would have been different if he had been handsome, and decides he would have been stupid and dead of AIDS."
~VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, NY Times


I Hate Myself
PROJECT JAY
While reviewing the raw footage, I caught Jay’s offhand self-deprecation and pulled those moments into a bin labeled “I Hate Myself. “ Never a part of the origscene ended up in nearly every review. — Rob Tate


Designing the Emmy Dress
PROJECT JAY
Three raw scenes, same story—so you pick just one, right? Hell no. My favorite trick is breaking a linear beat into something unexpected. This one’s a damn good example. — Rob Tate


To Each His Art
PROJECT JAY
Jay's a quilter.
So what's the editorial expression of quilting? ~ Rob Tate
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I Hate Myself
PROJECT JAY
While reviewing the raw footage, I caught Jay’s offhand self-deprecation and pulled those moments into a bin labeled “I Hate Myself. “ Never a part of the origscene ended up in nearly every review. — Rob Tate
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Designing the Emmy Dress
PROJECT JAY
Three raw scenes, same story—so you pick just one, right? Hell no. My favorite trick is breaking a linear beat into something unexpected. This one’s a damn good example. — Rob Tate
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To Each His Art
PROJECT JAY
Jay's a quilter.
So what's the editorial expression of quilting? ~ Rob Tate
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