Brian Cox is the writer/director of one short film and two low-budget features. His short, The Obit Writer, starred Norman Mailer, Mira Sorvino and Chris Eigeman. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and has been broadcast worldwide, including cablecasts on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. His first feature length project, Scorpion Spring, starred Alfred Molina, Ruben Blades, Esai Morales and Matthew McConaughey. It premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival and was distributed by New Line and shown on HBO. His most recent feature, Keepin’ It Real, an urban comedy he wrote and directed for DVD release, was shot in 12 days on a budget of $100,000 and starred Platinum-selling rap artist Kurupt. It was nominated for two DVD Premiere Awards, best script and best actress, and won in the actress category.

Cox currently has two new feature project as writer and director set-up with Peninsula Films, producers of Dahmer. Canaries, a satirical look at the music industry, is currently out for casting. “El Muerto,” based on the underground Mexican-American comic book series, is in the scripting stage.

Cox began producing films in the 90s. Current projects for which he is a producer include Tsui Hark’s Zu Warriors, starring Zhang Zi Yi, which is due to be released by Miramax later this year; the Wes Craven project, Pulse, based on a remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Japanese horror film, and currently with Dimension; a live action adaptation of the Japanese animated feature Kite, to which Rob Cohen (XXX) is attached as director; and Ghost Actress, to be remade in English by its original director, Hideo Nakata, who also directed the original Ring.