Rob Cotterill

Rob Cotterill

second unit director or assistant director, producer, actor

Rob Cotterill was born on Nov 26, 1971 in Canada. Rob Cotterill's big-screen debut came with The Bay of Love and Sorrows directed by Tim Southam in 2002. Rob Cotterill is known for The Lighthouse directed by Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson stars as Thomas Howard and Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake. Rob Cotterill has got 1 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Rob Cotterill achieved is Directors Guild of Canada. The upcoming new movie Rob Cotterill plays is Infinity Pool which will be released on Jan 27, 2023.

Rob Cotterill has been working in film since 1994. Through fate, on the set of TRAILER PARK BOYS, Rob met Jason Eisener, where they began talking about making films together. A partnership was born, and together the duo made the fake trailer version of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN, entering it into the SXSW Grindhouse Trailer Competition in Austin, Texas, which it won. While shooting Hobo, Eisener & Cotterill conceived their next project, a fifteen-minute short film about the injustices suffered by Christmas trees. This film was called TREEVENGE, which won multiple awards around the globe including an honourable mention at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. With the successes of these films and two other viral shorts, REPORT CARD and THE NUMBER TO HEAVEN, The HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN feature film creative team was solidified. The partnership formed Yer Dead Productions, a Halifax, Nova Scotia based, genre centered, production house. Now focused and determined, all efforts went towards the feature film version of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN. The feature was released in the spring of 2011, premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. HOBO won the TIFF Top Ten Canadian films of 2011. Rob Cotterill and Jason Eisener remain a strong creative force; continuing their collaboration, the team have several projects in various stages of development. Since HOBO, Rob has remained in the Yer Dead Productions brand, and produced segments for two different anthology feature films. The first was Y IS FOR YOUNGBUCK, part of ABC'S OF DEATH which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012. The second, SLUMBER PARTY ALIEN ABDUCTION, one of the five segments in V/H/S/2 had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, Rob produced Jason's short ONE LAST DIVE which was dubbed "The Scariest 1 Minute Movie Ever" by The Huffington Post, it has reached over a million views and was chosen for Vimeo Staff Picks.

  • Birthday

    Nov 26, 1971
  • Place of Birth

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 9 nominations

Directors Guild of Canada
2011
Television Series - Comedy
Winner - DGC Team Award

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