Talent Guide

Josh Robbins

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2012

Bio

Josh Robbins completed his undergraduate work in film production at Hunter College of the City University of New York and received his M.F.A. in screenwriting from The University of Southern California, where he was awarded departmental honors and received the Jack Nicholson Award for best feature screenplay. He has worked in development as a script reader for HDnet Films, in production as a script supervisor, and in postproduction as an assistant editor. He has written seven feature film scripts and two television spec scripts. His most recent screenplay, I’m Not Down, won first place in the Landlocked Film Festival and Woods Hole Film Festival feature script competitions. Robbins currently teaches screenwriting and cinema studies at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Current Project

I'm Not Down

Logline

A proud, aging punk rocker has to fight for his way of life when a yuppie couple wants to turn the New York City tenement building where he has lived under rent control for thirty years into their own private McMansion in this true New York story about class, dreams, temptation and loyalty.