Rob Brown

Biography

BBC award winning short film director whose recent film 'Open Skies' screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2008 in the Trailblazers showcase. Rob is currently represented for Film and TV by Michelle Archer at United Agents. His showreel can be viewed at http://www.vimeo.com/2389450

Project Development

"Listless" (feature) - A comedy/drama. Imagine Garden State crossed with Withnail and I! "Last Words" (feature) - a dying war criminal attempts to reconcile with his estranged son when he is released from prison on compassionate grounds. "Roads" (feature, working title) - a Lithuanian sex trafficker faces a moral dilemma when the teenage girl she is trafficking turns out to be pregnant. "Sixteen" (short) - A former 'war child' from Sierra Leone is about to turn 16 in an inner city school in London and still trying to escape his troubled past.

Influences

Scorcese, Kiarostami, Kubrick, Coppola, Truffaut, Powell and Pressburger and PT Anderson are amongst my influences. Also, DPs like Lance Acord, Seamus MacGarvey, Deakins etc.