Biography

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.

- IMDb mini biography by: R. Cotterill