Eitan Gorlin

Eitan Gorlin wrote and directed "The Holy Land," a narrative feature set in Jerusalem, which played theatrically in over fifty cities in the United States, with an eleven-week run at the Angelica Film Center. For his directorial debut, Gorlin won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for an IFP Spirit Award. Gorlin also co-created and played the Martin Eisenstadt character, a hapless McCain adviser who became a media sensation during the 2008 presidential campaign. Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, then penned a satirical novel in their character's voice, "I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans," which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and listed by Washington Monthly as one of the year's top three books. Additionally, Gorlin wrote the script, "Burbank Caviar," which Cuba Gooding Jr. directed as "Bayou Caviar," for which Gorlin was credited as a producer and the co-writer. The film starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Famke Jannsen and Richard Dreyfuss. Gorlin has also written about Jerusalem chefs, religious and political extremism and Mafia involvement in the American black music industry.