Steven Jay Rubin
Screenwriter/Producer | Film Historian | Author | Documentarian | Podcaster

Screenwriter/producer, film historian, author, documentarian and podcaster Steven Jay Rubin began his motion picture writing career when he acquired the theatrical remake rights to the ABC television series Combat! and sold his screenplay and the rights to Savoy Pictures and later Paramount. He made his producing debut for Showtime in 2002 on the baseball comedy Bleacher Bums, starring Peter Riegert, Brad Garrett, Wayne Knight and Charles Durning. That same year, for the Hallmark Channel, he produced the true World War II drama Silent Night, starring Linda Hamilton, which was nominated for four Canadian Television Academy Awards.
He served as executive producer on My Suicide, an indie teen dramedy that won the Best Picture award in its class at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009, and 19 other Best Picture awards around the world (it’s currently on Netflix). On the documentary front, in 2006, he wrote, directed and produced East L.A. Marine: The Untold True Story of Guy Gabaldon for Virgil Films and Entertainment. In 2019, he served as executive producer on the documentary The Coolest Guy Movie Ever, also for Virgil Films.