Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Rubin turned to documentaries after completing his Ph.D. in cognitive science at MIT. Rubin, a writer-producer-director, has made a wide variety of films for television.

Rubin is currently working on his fifth hour for the PBS series NATURE, about bald eagles, and an hour for NOVA via National Geographic Television that explores the cognitive gap between apes and humans.

In 2003, Rubin worked as producer and head writer for the PBS groundbreaking environmental series Strange Days on Planet Earth, hosted by Edward Norton. Strange Days won best documentary series at Wildscreen and at the International Wildlife Film Festival.

From 1997 to 2002, Rubin headed Rubin Tarrant Productions, delivering 14 hours of prime time documentary programming. From 1993 to 1997, Rubin was staff producer and later supervising producer in National Geographic Television’s Natural History Unit, where his credits included Yellowstone: Realm of the Coyote and the natural history comedy Savage Garden (starring Leslie Nielsen).

In addition to his Emmy as supervising producer for King Cobra, Rubin won the Science in Society Award (2003) from the National Association of Science Writers 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.