Rob Tobin

Co-CEO, co-founder, development exec, screenwriter, at Surf City Films and Sun Blizzard Productions
Screenwriter

Malibu Beach, California

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About Rob

Rob Tobin
714-717-4289 • scripts90@ • surfcityfilms.net •

RESUME

Screenwriting
• Wrote and am co-producing “Love on the Adriatic,” scheduled for principal photography with Sun Blizzard Productions, and RooandKanga Productions, November, 2021.
• Wrote and am co-producing feature scripts “Chasing Spielberg,” “Face Time” and “The Woman on the Bench” all in development with Sun Blizzard Productions, 2021.
• Wrote 1st season (12 episodes) of animated series for Indian Production Company, 2019.
• Feature spec script “Storefront” produced as “Get Married or Die” in 2018.
• Wrote the script for a $30 million, English-language feature for a Chinese studio, 2017.
• Wrote two book adaptations 2016.
• Featured in the book "The Top 50 Indie Writers in the World" by Del Weston, Theresa Weston, and Nabi Zee, released in 2016.
• Wrote “Broken,” produced, finalist in the 2014 PGA Make Your Mark film competition.
• Wrote “Dam 999,” $10 million feature produced, released by Warner Brothers, November 2011, shortlisted for 2012 Best Picture Academy Award.
• Wrote “Camel Wars,” $40 million feature John McTiernan was attached to direct.

Published Books
• How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies (Xlibris Press).
• Screenwriting: The Formula (Writers Digest Books).
• God Wars: Living With Angels, (Echelon Press, 2011).
• Jo-Bri and the Two Worlds, (Book Baby, 2012).

DVDs
• “The Seven Essential Elements of a Successful Screenplay” (Creative Screenwriting Magazine, produced 2005)
• “Credible Dialogue” (Creative Screenwriting Magazine, produced 2006)

Related Experience
• Co-CEO, and founding partner of Sun Blizzard Productions
• CEO and founding partner Surf City Films
• VP of Development, Interpreter Films & Management/Writers Boot Camp
• Director of Development, Motion Picture Division, The Cannell Studios
• Director of Development, Midnight Soldiers Productions
• Story Editor, Freddie Fields Productions
• Freelance script analyst, TriStar, Interscope, Spelling, Turner, HBO, Goldwyn, et al.

Education
• M.A. in Professional Writing, USC, Los Angeles, CA
• B.A. in Creative Writing, UVic, Victoria, Canada

Unique traits: I have a unique combination of skills -- a screenwriter, novelist, and former motion picture development executive, I bring a lot to the table.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 10"

Weight:
180

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Receding

Hair color:
White

Eyes:
Hazel

Ethnicity:
Other

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Loglines

The Life and Times of Lesbian Alien Opera Singers Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Romance A billion-dollar movie threatens to bankrupt Hollywood, and the industry’s fate is in the hands of a technical writer who doesn’t care.
Spring Training Drama ⋄ Fantasy ⋄ Sports What happens if Babe Ruth shows up for spring training… in 2014… with Josh Gibson?
Love on the Adriatic Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Romance A widowed American painter searches for a new life on Italy’s Adriatic coast.
Back to the Garden Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Fantasy ⋄ Sci-fi An atheistic archeologist discovers the Garden of Eden, and revives Adam and Eve.
The Magic Rain Action ⋄ Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Fantasy ⋄ Sci-fi A teen wizard from a sword and sorcery world is chased by an evil sorcerer into modern day Montana where he has to deal with teenage girls, rap music, skinny dipping, love, sex and saving two worlds during summer vacation.
Storefront Action ⋄ Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Independent A gunman enters a one-man travel agency and tells the owner to convince his next female client to marry him or else the gunman will kill them both.