Rob Rice is a filmmaker from western Massachusetts, 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, UNDERDOX, Black Canvas, São Paulo and many others. His second feature shoots October 2024.
His recent work as a producer includes Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait (Locarno 2023), Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Cannes 2024, starring Michael Cera, Greg Turkington, and Francesca Scorsese), and the debut feature from Advik Beni. In 2023, he also AD’d Room Temperature, the new film from Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley.
Ponderosa
feature fictionpre-production
A terrifying Buneulian 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.
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ARCADIA
feature fictionin pre-production
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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Business Landscape
feature docpre-production
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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