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Eric Weinrib (b. 21 April 1972) is an award-winning filmmaker from Plainview, New York, U.S.A. He is the producer and director of Roseanne for President!,  documentary about comedic icon Roseanne Barr's 2012 run for president of the United States. The movie world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Founders Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival.

Weinrib is a long-time collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore as an Archival Researcher on Fahrenheit 9/11, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Coordinating Producer on Moore’s Academy Award-nominated SiCKO; and Associate Producer on Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. Weinrib was a staff writer on season one of Comedy Central’s ‘Strangers with Candy’ starring Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris.

Eric’s short film, Jimmy Walks Away, was an Official Selection of the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Jimmy Walks Away was included on “Park City; The Sundance Collection,” a DVD compilation of Sundance shorts.