Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California.

Chris Kobin in front of the Carleton Hotel at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal

Kobin, a graduate of Ridgewood High School (New Jersey), Macalester College and Loyola Law School, turned down an offer from a Century City law firm and became a car salesman while trying to break into Hollywood.[1][2][3] The John Landis film Slasher: an IFC Original was based on Kobin's experiences traveling the country staging "slasher sales".

Career

Kobin has produced the Made-For-TV Movies Payback ABC TV (1997), A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle CBS TV(2000), and Slasher: an IFC Original (2004).[4] Feature Films which Kobin has written or co-written include Gothic Harvest (2019), 2001 Maniacs (2005), Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006), Driftwood (2006.[5] and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010).[6][7]

Film Festival Premieres

Kobin's films have premiered in the following film festivals:

Filmography

Television series

References

  1. ↑ The Mac Weekly: Comment posted by alumnus Chris Kobin 11/16/07
  2. ↑ Indeworks: "Chris Kobin joins INDEWORKS to develop film and television properties"(January 2006) Archived June 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Automotive Digest: "Chris Kobin, a former used-car salesman"
  4. ↑ VH1: Kobin filmography
  5. ↑ "Movies.Msn: Kobin's filmography and associations". Archived from the original on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  6. ↑ Girls and Corpses: Tim Sullivan goes into great detail explaining the chemistry between him and Kobin as writers
  7. ↑ Upcoming Horror Films: Confirmation by Sullivan that he and Kobin are creating the sequel to 2001 Maniacs Archived June 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118018426.html?categoryId=3628
  9. ↑ "SXSW Film 2004 Conference and Festival Announces Feature Film Line-up". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  10. ↑ "Slamdance - Est. 1995". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
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