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John Rubin - Founder

Peabody and Emmy award-winner John Rubin turned to documentary filmmaking after completing his Ph.D. in cognitive science at MIT.

A writer-producer-director, Rubin has made a wide variety of films for television, often mixing the genres of history, science, and natural history. Rubin’s Peabody was for Ape Genius, an hour for NOVA, a film that explores the cognitive gap between apes and us. The same film earned Rubin his fifth and sixth Emmy nominations. The Living Weapon, a history of the American bio-warfare program, aired on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (PBS) in 2007 and earned Rubin an Emmy for outstanding achievement in research. Rubin won the television writing prize from the National Association of Science Writers in 2002 for scripting Clone! for national geographic explorer.

Rubin is an experienced backpacker, expeditionary sea kayaker, and PADI-certified scuba diver. He speaks French and gets by in Bahasa Indonesia.