Big update for this month. To begin, I mixed the documentary Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this past weekend. Indiewire gave it a glowing review here. The film was co-directed by Academy Award Winner Daniel Junge and Academy Award Nominee Kief Davidson, and narrated by Jason Bateman. The film was a blast to work on, and featured a range of stop-motion Lego animation segments that I had endless fun creating the sound design for (including playing with Lego sets and mouth-sound spaceships and explosions). This was also the first time the Lego brand has ever officially endorsed a documentary as a company.
Late last year I had also mixed another film with Daniel Junge, co-directed by Bryan Storkel (director of Holy Rollers) titled Fight Church. It’s a documentary about pastors who are also MMA fighters, and is set to have it’s premiere at the Boston Film Festival this week, followed by showings at Nashville and Maryland. The trailer went online barely a week ago and has already racked up a quarter of a million views. Stories of the film have also popped up on ABC News, Fox Sports, Good Morning America, and most recently the Colbert Report!
Also speaking of the Maryland Film Festival, I will be attending this year as a guest and speaker on the Sound Design and Storytelling panel discussion, which I am very eagerly looking forward to!
The film premieres are still rolling, as The Last Season is also set to debut this upcoming weekend at the San Francisco International Film Festival, before making its International Premiere at this year’s Hot Docs. Directed by Sara Dosa and produced by Academy Award Nominee Josh Penn, it was a beautiful movie to mix set in the calm and tranquil woods of southern Oregon.
As for older projects, We Always Lie to Strangers will have it’s Branson premiere in IMAX(!!!), as well as showing at this year’s SF DocFest.
In video game news the DisneyNature Explorer app I did the sound work for was released this week in honor of Earth Day, and is already on the charts as one of the most popular children’s apps.
And finally, Ice Warriors played on PBS to rave reviews and fantastic ratings, prompting the network to request it be expanded to feature-length. I’ll be looking forward to working on the longer version very soon, which will feature all-new footage from this year’s Olympic tournament in Sochi!
