Rodney Ascher is filmmaker/animator/etcetera whose work has screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the SFMOMA, Bay Area Now, the NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco Underground film festivals, Resfest, CineVegas, South by Southwest, the White Column Gallery and a funeral home in Baltimore. Not loyal to any one style, he has worked with animation, live action, documentary and puppetry. Often more than one within the same project.
He started his career as a storyboard artist in Miami, laying out hundreds of TV commercials and a handful of shot-in-South Florida action movies. At the same time, he and his friends were producing no-budget music videos for local punk rock bands and making arguably comic short films. Experience working on both ends of the food chain has proven invaluable as he went on to direct under the aegis of N Ur Eye Films (R.I.P), the Directors' Bureau and other fine American production companies.
Recent credits include the film festival favorite Hot Chicks, a pair of television pilots, and a wide variety of projects for clients including VH1, DirecTV, The Bravo Channel, Emily Strange, Buckethead, and EA Sports.
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Wieden and Kennedy + EA Sports + Niki + Aaron + Illick + Transistor Studios + Rhet Bear + The Hot Chicks + Buckethead + Cosmic Debris + World of Wonder + Capitol Records + Q Department + The Black Dog + VH1 + Collin Davis + Colin Mahan + Stephen Brophy + Buffy Visick + Joaquin Baca-Asay + Dru Donovan + Action Plus/Clubbo/Joe & Elise + Syd Garon + Louisa Van Leer + Bart Cheever + DFILM + The Crimson Executioner + Ground Zero + Spanganga (RIP) + Saturday Night Live + Thud Rumble + Oddball Film and Video + the Chicago Underground Film Fund + the South Florida Arts Consortium + Jason Wishnow + Tom Marquardt + the Bob Baker Marionette Theater + The Alliance + Wash Westmoreland + Anne Clements + Sheldon Lettich + The Roby Reece Method Acting Workshop + John O'Grady + Lewis Roth + NurEye Films + The Directors Bureau + DirecTV + the University of Miami + the Resfest/Resmag + Alfred + Bride of Ozzy + Sean Kelly + KC Smith + O. Perez + Eric Nordhauser + Ben Wolcott + Doris Wishman + Mark Boswell + Marco Porsia + Trisha Golubev-Lerner + Justin Glorieux + Craig Baldwin + The New York, Chicago, and San Francisco Underground Film Festivals + Avalon Pictures + Tommy Lee Wallace + Alex Baker + The Spooky Kids + Black Book Magazine + Lionel Goldbart + Sasha Lerner + Craigslist + The Buddha Bar + The New Venue + David Becker + Claudine Murphy + Beth Lisick + Kurt Hall + Dirk Brandon + Cultiplex Pictures International + Bad Dog LTD + The Institute For True Purpose Research + George Capewell + David Schweitzer + Spieglemania + Thairin Smothers + Camera Costumes + http://nix.nasa.gov + The White Columns Gallery + The San Francisco Cinematheque + The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts + Documental + Tech TV + SexTV + Artist Television Access + Chick Publications + Other Cinema + Film Arts Foundation + AIGA + the V-Mutes + IFilm + The Uncanny Valley + Robert 'Rob' Boyle + Jim Fourdinais + Helena Nolan + The Krispy Kreme Doughnut Factory in North Miami + Len Borrusco + Eric Henry/Doug Cunningham + Fred Graver/Jim Ackerman/Emily Cohen/Michelle Palmer + Crispin Porter Bogusky + Tom Smith + Dean Bryant + Jacqui Millar + Egon Stephan Jr + The Cities of Miami Beach, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome, and Sandusky
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