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Joshua Rudrananda Rubin was born in Manhattan, raised in an Ashram in Bloomington, Indiana, and spent his teenage years in Hollywood. His education at Hampshire College in western Massachusetts was broken up by three years of traveling from Paris to Transylvania to the Himalayas. He currently resides in Manhattan, eight blocks from where he was born.
Joshua’s writing career has taken him from his roots in playwriting and fiction, through a gig writing Astrology books, to a post as Entertainment Editor at Russell Simmons’ 360HipHop.com.
In 2000, his first screenplay, Annanina, was selected as a finalist out of some 4000 screenplays for the Motion Picture Academy’s prestigious Nichol Fellowship.
Since then, he has been hired to write The American Knight, a WWI adventure and love story for Ascendant Pictures; Lain, an adaptation of the celebrated Japanese Anime for SekretAgent Productions; and Future Force X, a children’s science fiction adventure, also for Ascendant Pictures.
His adaptation of the Anime Kite, a dark, sexual sci-fi thriller for producer Rob Cohen, will be helmed by Mexico City-based commerical directors Jorge and Javier Aguillera. His original, as-yet-untitled Crocs vs. Sharks creature-feature, for Material Entertainment, will go before cameras in Australia in early 2008.
Joshua is represented for film by UTA United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills. And managed by Ragna Nervik, Management.