Rob Pearlstein is a writer and director. He is best known as the writer and director of Our Time is Up

Our Time is Up

Our Time is Up is a 2005 live action short film, written and directed by Rob Pearlstein.On January 31, 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. Designated nominees were Pearlstein and producer Pia Clemente. The film did not win, when the Oscar went to Six Shooter at...

, the film for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...

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Pearlstein has worked as a copywriter at agencies including TBWA Chiat/Day, Fallon McElligott, BBDO, Deutsch, Saatchi & Saatchi, and MTV. He was also among the top 10 finalists for HBO’s Project Greenlight contest.

He has sold screenplays and television pilots to major studios and networks such as Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, and Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels, CM is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.-Early life:...

's Broadway Video Productions, and has written episodes for the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 series Medium and the Fox series The Inside.

Pearlstein wrote, directed, and starred in Matumbo Goldberg.

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