He received his BA in film at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Robinson Devor directed a documentary about an LA billboard queen. His 2 first feature films premiered in Sundance and received critical high marks. A 2002 Fellow at the Sundance Institute, Devor collaborated with African-born journalist Charles Mudede on the feature script Superpower, the story of an African child soldier attempting to recapture his childhood after a civil war.