bio
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.
PONDEROSA
FEATURE in pre-production
...a terrifying bunuelian comedy about right wing ideological reproduction and some cathartic ways to sabotage it. When the buffet where Zeke’s mom works closes down, he’s forced to entertain the advances of a rich regular who seems strangely set on becoming his dad.
Written and Directed by Rob Rice
Produced by Jacqi Jones
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