bio
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. In 2023, he also AD’d Room Temperature, a new feature from literary icon Dennis Cooper and co-director 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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