His feature film, Maangamizi – The Ancient One, continues to receive accolades after being selected as Tanzania’s official selection at the 74th Academy Awards. At Zanzibar’s International Film Festival, the film won Best Feature and Best Actress and won the 2004 Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Film at the Newark Black Film Festival. Ron has been active as a filmmaker, producer/director and editor for a variety of feature and documentary subjects since receiving his MFA in Theater Arts from UCLA. As a result of his first visit to the African continent in 1979, his work has reflected the extraordinary cultural and spiritual beauty of African civilization and its influences throughout the world. The premiere of The Marriage of Mariamu, the first Tanzanian-American co-production, at Africa’s leading film festival – FESPACO – in 1985 garnered the Best Short Film Award, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Award and the Journalists and Critics Award. The 36-minute film was subsequently shown at the Fourth International Youth Film Festival in Turin, the Uppsala Film Festival in Sweden, and the Carthage International Film Festival in Tunisia.
Ron has also produced four documentaries, We Are Still Here, Recon Reunites - Vietnam Veterans Speak, Sharing Is Unity, and Prince Dixon’s Gospel Caravan, which continue to prove significant nearly twenty years later.