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Rich Ronat is a seasoned screenwriter/director based in Los Angeles. Over the past ten years, he's been consistently hired by independent producers, production companies, and major studios like Universal, Paramount, Lionsgate, Saban, Millenium, and VMI Worldwide. His writing credits include the war epic "THE RISING HAWK," the character-driven thriller "GRAND ISLE" starring Nic Cage and Kelsey Grammar, the crime thriller "AMERICAN SICARIO" featuring Danny Trejo and "CRESCENT CITY" featuring Alec Baldwin, Terrance Howard, and Esai Morales, which was released in 2024 by Lionsgate. He's directed two feature films. The first one - CULPRIT, received rave reviews, has gotten over 5 million views and is currently on all the VOD platforms. The second feature film, a SyFy dark comedy called THE CLUTTERBUCKS, which is set for release in 2026. Lastly, he co-founded Good Rebel Pictures with his fiancé, Laura Vale.
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Rich Ronat is a seasoned screenwriter/director based in Los Angeles. Over the past ten years, he's been consistently hired by independent producers, production companies, and major studios like Universal, Paramount, Lionsgate, Saban, Millenium, and VMI Worldwide. His writing credits include the war epic "THE RISING HAWK," the character-driven thriller "GRAND ISLE" starring Nic Cage and Kelsey Grammar, the crime thriller "AMERICAN SICARIO" featuring Danny Trejo and "CRESCENT CITY" featuring Alec Baldwin, Terrance Howard, and Esai Morales, which was released in 2024 by Lionsgate. He's directed two feature films. The first one - CULPRIT, received rave reviews, has gotten over 5 million views and is currently on all the VOD platforms. The second feature film, a SyFy dark comedy called THE CLUTTERBUCKS, which is set for release in 2026. Lastly, he co-founded Good Rebel Pictures with his fiancé, Laura Vale.
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Audio Recorder - If we had to do it all over again, this is probably the first item we would have bought - amzn.to/3WEuz0k
LIGHTS - Although we like to use as much natural light as we can, we often enhance the lighting with this small portable light. We have two of them and they have saved us a number of times - amzn.to/2u5UnHv
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![9 Reasons Why Filmmakers Need To Think About Virtual Production - Keith Sutliff [FULL INTERVIEW]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bbwuZGHSGM4/mqdefault.jpg "9 Reasons Why Filmmakers Need To Think About Virtual Production - Keith Sutliff [FULL INTERVIEW]
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Film Director/Producer/Writer Keith Sutliff, originally from Florida, moved to Los Angeles in 2012. His award-winning work in film encompasses feature films, episodic narratives, short form content and commercial productions. Keith’s original screenplays are the foundation for his creative projects. His original screenplay The Refuge (2019), acquired by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is included in the Margaret Herrick Library (The Oscars Library) permanent Core Collection there. His feature films held premieres at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood with theatrical releases to follow.
Keith’s creative vision has driven him to master the aspects of filmmaking, writing and now virtual production. He founded his production company, KS Pictures, in early 2016. He is now fully committed to virtual production, opening a film studio in the Arts District-Downtown area of Los Angeles called “Sutliff Studios: Virtual Productions.” The studio focuses on rental to companies for film, TV, commercial, and other related media content productions. The studio also focuses on in-house production of its own virtual productions. This is done using the latest cutting-edge software and equipment to bring productions together on a virtual stage. Gaming software such as Unreal Engine combined with a camera tracking solution to help bring real time rendering along with “parallax” on the LED volume wall to life. He is also heavily involved in the operation of the production and filming techniques used on a virtual stage and In-Camera VFX. Familiarity with 2D and 3D assets used on a LED volume and all the technical elements that goes into filming on these stages.
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