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film

Hippo

Music, Sound Design and Re-Record Mixer with George Drabing Hicks

Hippo, a peculiar adolescent, and his Hungarian step-sister Buttercup struggle to come of age in late 1990s America, under the roof of a mother who has been institutionalized at least once.

Premiering July 26th at the Fantasia International Film Festival: https://fantasiafestival.com/en/film/...

CAST Kimball Farley Lilla Kizlinger Eliza Roberts Jesse Pimentel Eric Roberts Vann Barrett

A FILM BY Mark H. Rapaport PRODUCED BY Kinematics // Rough House Pictures // Rollin Studios

Dusty And Stones

Sound Designer and Re-record Mixer with George Drabing Hicks

Two struggling country music singers from the tiny African Kingdom of Swaziland journey to Texas determined to win big at a local battle of the bands and turn their careers around.

Director

DEVILS WORKSHOP

Sound Designer and Re-record mixer with George Drabing Hicks

A struggling actor spends a weekend with a female demonologist to prepare for an audition.

Director

Andronicus

music, sound design and mix

A family therapy session takes a disturbing turn.

so pretty

sound design and mix

Directed, edited and written by Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
Cinematography by Bill Kirstein

Four young queers in New York City struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel so schön by Ronald M. Schernikau.

Best International Feature, FIC Valdivia
Janela Critic's Prize, Best Feature, Janela International de Cinema do Recife
Best Feature, KRAK, Zinegoak Film Festival
#14, Film Comment Best Undistributed Films, 2019

power hungry

music, sound design and mix

created by Benjy Brooke

A tale of future woes.

happy birthday, marsha!

sound design and mix

Written, Directed and Produced by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel

Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a film about iconic transgender artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it No Mind" Johnson and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.  

Pledge

sound design and mix

Director Daniel Robbins
Writer Zack Weiner
Producers Mark Rapaport, Keaton Heinrichs

A group of college freshmen are given the chance to pledge what they believe is an exclusive fraternity.

empathy

sound design and mix

Director of Photography. Bill Kirstein
Music. Tim Rovinelli, Kenny Kusiak, Magic FadesVektroid, & Shisa.
Prod. Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli & Bill Kirstein
Co-produced by Em Cominotti
Directed by Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli

This documentary film follows a heroin-addicted professional escort as she moves between New York City, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles.

Uncaged

sound design and mix

Director
Daniel Robbins
Writers
Mark Rapaport & Daniel Robbins
Producers
Mark Rapaport, Daniel Robbins, Yoni Frager, Adam Werth

A sleepwalking teen straps a camera to himself and discovers a sinister family secret.

the inhabitants

sound design

Written and directed by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen

THE INHABITANTS revolves around a young couple that gets more than they bargained for when they renovate a neglected bed and breakfast in New England. After a series of disturbing events, the husband begins to suspect that something evil is lurking within the walls of this old house, and whatever it is has set its sights on his wife. Now he must fight to uncover the inn's dark secret before this malicious spirit consumes everything he loves.