Louis B. Rosenberg

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In 2008, Rosenberg graduated from the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA film school. In 2009, Rosenberg's short film Lab Rats won several awards including Best Short Film and Best Short Screenplay at the Moondance Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Ventura Film Festival, as well as Best Short Film at the Silicon Valley Film Festival and Los Angeles Comedy Festival. The film, directed by Sam Washington, has subsequently been turned into a web-series by Frostbite Pictures and won Outstanding Series at LA Webfest.In 2012, Rosenberg sold his screenplay entitled Mindplay to Echo Lake Entertainment. In 2018, the Hollywood Reporter reported that Rosenberg's screenplay "The Manuscript" was scheduled to film, starring Morgan Freeman and Scott Eastwood, the script co-written with longtime collaborator Joe Rosenbaum.

In 2008, Rosenberg authored his first graphic novel entitled Upgrade, with artwork by Stan Timmons. A satirical take on artificial intelligence and transhumanism, the book is set in the year 2048, when life is lived entirely online, nobody ever leaving the confines of their tiny apartments, supplies brought to them by automated delivery drones. In a notable coincidence, the story predicted a pandemic and global quarantine in 2020. The story takes place decades later in a dystopian society still under quarantine, populated by a generation of people who have never experienced the outside world. A screenplay based on the Upgrade story won Best Scif-Fi Screenplay at the Shriekfest film festival and won the Grand Prize of the Cinestory Screenwriting Awards.In 2013, Rosenberg's graphic novel Eons was released with artwork by Kyle La Fever. The book recounts the story of eight test subjects who are frozen and shot into orbit for a 60-day test of a military survival system.In 2013, Rosenberg authored the children's book Seeking Marlo, with co-writer Joe Rosenbaum, and artwork by illustrator Bill Maus. The book is aimed at helping kids deal with the loss when a good friend moves away.Rosenberg released the dystopian graphic novel Monkey Room in 2014. It is a cautionary tale about the creation of a sentient AI that comes to life as a global "hive mind," linking millions of users through their phones, tablets, and computers. A screenplay version of Monkey Room was selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures from over 7000 scripts to as one of 50 contenders for a Nichol's Fellowship.In 2020, Rosenberg's cautionary book Arrival Mind was published by OPP with illustrations by Anastasia Khmelevska. Described as a "picture book for grown-ups about the dangers of AI," the unusual little book uses fanciful artwork and rhyming verse to convey the existential threat that super-intelligent AI will pose to humanity. Kirkus Review described the Arrival Mind as "a delightful, ominous, and edifying look at a menacing future." Arrival Mind was nominated for a Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) in 2021.In 2021, Rosenberg's book One of Us was published by OPP with illustrations by Olha Bondarenko. It's a fanciful and thoughtful take on what scientists will experience when they design and build intelligent machines. One of Us was called "a brilliantly crafted book," by San Francisco Book Review and described as "a modern-day Frankenstein story."

Upgrade (2011) – graphic novel (sci-fi)

Eons (2013) – graphic novel (sci-fi)

Seeking Marlo (2013) – children's book

Monkey Room (2014) – graphic novel (sci-fi)

Arrival Mind (2020) – graphic novel (sci-fi)

One of Us (2021) - graphic novel (sci-fi)

Rosenberg is a vegan, and in the 1990s helped to develop the first VR surgical simulators that reduced the use of animals in medical training. He is also dyslexic and has attributed some of his success as a technologist to this trait.

Louis B. Rosenberg at IMDb