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Overview
BIOGRAPHY
ROB TOBIN
714-717-4289 / scripts@earthlink.net / home.earthlink.net/~scripts/gym
INTRODUCTION
Rob’s latest script is scheduled to start shooting in September, in three countries with a $25 million budget. Rob is working on a romantic comedy and is submitting his Telluride-winning Rom Com “The Life and Times of Lesbian Alien Opera Singers.” He is also available for writing assignments.
Rob is a screenwriter, script doctor, writing coach, author of “How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies,” (Xlibris Press) and the upcoming “The Screenwriting Formula” (Writers Digest). He has sold both features and sitcoms. He is currently writing the script for a feature to be filmed in April “07 in Brazil by a Florida-based production company. One of his scripts reached the semi-finals of Project Greenlight and was optioned, another won at Telluride, and three others made the quarterfinals of major contests. Rob is a frequent speaker at film festivals and conferences and Creative Screenwriting Magazine recently produced two of Rob”s instructional DVDs.
Rob rewrote “Across the Red Line,” a sports feature for the Cannell Studios; the treatment for “Guard of Honor,” (from the best-selling novel) for Midnight Soldiers; the treatment for “The A-Team” for Cannell; rewrote the western farce “Zen Cowboy” for Triad Films; and the sitcom pilot “Time for Joy” for Riviera Entertainment.
Rob is a former VP of Writers Boot Camp. As a story analyst, he read 5,000+ screenplays for Goldwyn, Spelling, Interscope, TriStar, TriMark and HBO, et al. He helped establish a feature film department for Stephen J. Cannell (“The A-Team,” “Hunter,” “The Commish”).
“Rob Tobin provided invaluable advice, support and encouragement in the writing of a screenplay which led directly to a staff writing position in television. I could not have done it without him.”
- Jonathan R. Hiatt, Writer-producer, “City of Angels” and “Philly”
(Steven Bochco Productions) and “MEDS.”
“I consulted with Rob on an original screenplay entitled “Ballistic,” and on my novel, “Mortal Sin.” Rob is blessed with a unique combination of skills in matters both literary and cinematic. His creative instincts are first-rate.”
- Paul Levine, Best-selling novelist
“Rob is as fine a script analyst as any I have worked with, and has helped me enormously with script analysis, story notes and script editing.”
- Wayne S. Williams, Producer, “Toy Soldiers.”
“If you want to read a fantastic book about screenwriting, check out, “How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies.”
- Howard Meibach, Hollywoodlitsales
“(How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies) is the clearest, most compelling book on screenwriting that I have ever come across.”
- Nick Dunning, British Screenwriting Institute
Rob is available for screenwriting, script doctoring and development work as well as lecturing, workshops and individual coaching and consulting. He can be reached at 714-717-4289 or scripts@earthlink.net.
BOOKS:
• “How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies” (Xlibris Press).
“Screenwriting: The Formula” (Writers Digest Books, due spring “07).
• “Quebracho.”
• “The Statue Moves.”
• “Living With Angels, Book One of the God Wars Series.”
DVDs:
• “The Seven Essential Elements of a Successful Screenplay” (Creative Screenwriting Magazine, produced 2005)
“Credible Dialogue” (Creative Screenwriting Magazine, produced 2006)
SCRIPTS:
• “Untitled Iraq War Project” feature drama written for Xoom Entertainment, in pre-production, expected May, “07 principal • photography, May “08 release.
• “Better Than Human,” feature drama written for Living Earth Productions.
• “Across the Red Line,” a comedy/action feature sold to the Cannell Studios.
• “Guard of Honor,” treatment sold to Cannell Studios and Midnight Soldiers Prods.
• “Zen Cowboy,” a feature comedy sold to Triad Films. In turnaround.
• “Time for Joy,” sitcom pilot and one episode sold to Riviera Entertainment.
• “I Love Ludo,” half-hour sitcom pilot, written for Bu West Productions.
• “Chasing Steven Spielberg,” aka “The Life and Tiimes of Lesbian, Alien Opera Singers” winner, 2004 Telluride Indiefest, quarter finalist 2006 Page Screenwriting Competition, quarter finalist 2006 American Scriptpimp screenwriting competition.
• “On the DL,” aka “Balls of Different Sizes,” semi-finalist 2004 Project Greenlight, semi-finalist 2006 American • Screenwriting Competition, optioned by CIV Productions.
• “Back to the Garden,” quarter-finalist 2004 American Screenwriting, 2006 Page screenwriting competition.
• “The Server,” quarter-finalist 2004 American Screenwriting Competition.
“Truthies,” quarter-finalist, 2005 Screenwriting Expo Screenwriting Competition.
• “God Wars: Living with Angels”
• “Just Imagine”
• “The Statue Moves”
• “Plains, Twains and Horsies”
• “Sweetheart”
• “IPO”
• “O”Reilly and Fitz”
• “Living with Angels,”
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