Rob Pearlstein's writing/directing debut, Our Time Is Up, received an Oscar Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film for the 78th Academy Awards. He has sold screenplays to Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Working Title Films and television pilots to NBC, FOX and ABC with such producers as Jerry Bruckheimer and Lorne Michael's Broadway Video Productions. Rob has also written episodes for the NBC series Medium and the Fox series The Inside. Rob recently directed a television pilot presentation for The Gold Company and an ad campaign for Twix.

Currently Rob is rewriting and preparing to direct a comedy feature for Spyglass Entertainment and Rogue Pictures as well as writing TV pilots for NBC and USA. Previously, he wrote TV spots and print ads for agencies like TBWA Chiat/Day, Fallon, BBDO, Deutsch, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann-Erickson and MTV. Rob lives in L.A.