Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California.
Kobin, a graduate of Ridgewood High School (New Jersey), Macalester College and Loyola Law School, turned down an offer from a Century City law firm and became a car salesman while trying to break into Hollywood. The John Landis film Slasher: an IFC Original was based on Kobin's experiences traveling the country staging "slasher sales".
Kobin has produced the Made-For-TV Movies Payback ABC TV (1997), A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle CBS TV(2000), and Slasher: an IFC Original (2004). Feature Films which Kobin has co-written include 2001 Maniacs (2005), Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006), Driftwood (2006). and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010).
Kobin's documentary films have premiered in the following film festivals: