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'' is a 2004 live action short film, written and directed by Rob Pearlstein. On January 31, 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 78th Academy Awards. The designated nominees were Pear ...

'', the film for which he was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under various names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...

. Pearlstein has worked as a copywriter at agencies including TBWA Chiat/Day,

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, BBDO, Deutsch,

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, and

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. He was also among the top 10 finalists for

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’s Project Greenlight contest. He has sold screenplays and television pilots to major studios and networks such as Universal Pictures, Focus Features,

Jerry Bruckheimer Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1943) is an American film and television Film producer, producer. He has been active in the genres of Action film, action, Drama film, drama, Fantasy film, fantasy, and Science fiction film, science fi ...

Television, and

Lorne Michaels Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He is best known for creating and producing ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1980, 1985–present) and producing the '' La ...

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

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series ''Medium'' and the Fox series '' The Inside''. Pearlstein wrote, directed, and starred in '' Matumbo Goldberg'' and he also wrote and directed ''

Someone Marry Barry ''Someone Marry Barry'' is a 2014 American romantic comedy directed and written by Rob Pearlstein and starring Tyler Labine, Lucy Punch, Damon Wayans, Jr., and Hayes MacArthur. A group of childhood friends plot to get rid of their socially inapp ...

''.

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