ROB RICE ----- filmmaker




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Rob Rice is a filmmaker and producer from western Massachusetts, now based in LA.

He did an MFA at CalArts and, before changing careers,worked as a CRISPR engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

His feature debut, Way Out Ahead of Us, was produced by Matt Porterfield and premiered at the 2022 FIDMarseille before going on to screen at RIDM, ICA London, Black Canvas, São Paulo and many others.

His recent work as a producer includes Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait (Locarno 2023), Tyler Taormina’s forthcoming Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point starring Michael Cera, Greg Turkington, Francesca Scorsese, and Sawyer Spielberg, and the debut feature from Advik Beni. This year as an AD he ran the production Room Temperature, a new film from literary icon Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley.





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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