ROB RICE ----- filmmaker




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Rob Rice is a filmmaker from western Massachusetts.

Once upon a time, he did a master’s in neuroscience at Tulane University and then worked as an engineer in CRISPR genetics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

He is currently living in Los Angeles, where he graduated from the MFA Film Directing program at CalArts, and where he was selected to attend the 2019 Flaherty Film Seminar as a Fellow.

His work explores the politics of catastrophe and communion in America, The Future, science, infrastructure, and the social constructions of meaning.

His feature debut, Way Out Ahead of Us, was produced by Matt Porterfield and premiered in competition at FIDMarseille 2022.




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FEATURED WORKS: 



WAY OUT AHEAD OF US 
feature film 

An eccentric and resilient family struggles to leave a legacy that will outlive their fading desert town.


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87’
5.1 - 4k
color - dcp

World Premiere
FIDMarseille 2022




ARCADIA
feature film


A disaffected academic cartographer sabotages the costly fiber optic cable voyage she’s on, convinced she’s about to discover a new continent. 



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UPCOMING
fiction
in pre-production





BUSINESS LANDSCAPE
feature film


Bitcoin bunkers, brothels, server farms, visionaries, water, the desert, the future, the past, and the promise of an apocalypse-proof economy.


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UPCOMING
doc
in pre-production




Loss For Words 
music video


for Colyn Cameron’s single, off “Sad and Easy”




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COMPLETED

available everywhere