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mexico city , mexico robert orci in 2014 200px robert orci , rob orci , bob orci 20 july 1973 melissa blake 1997 -- present roberto orci -lrb- 14583387419 -rrb- . jpg roberto orci
 roberto orci screenwriter , film and television producer university of texas at austin
roberto orci

roberto gaston orci -lrb- born july 20 , 1973 -rrb- is a mexican-american film and television screenwriter and producer .
he began to work with longtime collaborate alex kurtzman while at school in california , and together they have worked on television series such as ' , ' , and have created `` sleepy hollow '' alongside phillip iscove , and `` fringe '' with j. j. abrams .
orci and kurtzman 's first film project was michael bay 's `` the island '' , and due to that partnership they went on the write the scripts for the first three films of the `` transformers '' film series .
orci first became a film producer with 2008 's `` eagle eye '' and again with 2009 's `` the proposal '' .
the duo since returned to working with abrams on and both `` star trek '' and `` star trek into darkness '' .
in april 2014 , orci and kurtzman announced that they would only work together in television projects , and orci worked on a third `` star trek '' film until being replaced the following december .
orci was awarded the norman lear writer 's award and the raul julia award for excellence , in addition to shared awards and nominations including the george pal memorial award .
