Brian McOmber
Sound
Biography
As a musician, performer and recording artist, Brian McOmber has collaborated with Björk, David Byrne, Doudou N'Diaye Rose, Deer Tick, Kurt Ballou (Converge), Marijuana Deathsquads, Mira Calix, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Solange, The Roots, Yeasayer and St. Vincent. After studying evolutionary morphology and percussion with AC Burke and Pheeroan akLaff at Wesleyan University, Brian joined the Grammy-nominated indie rock band Dirty Projectors and played on many of the group's most critically acclaimed albums. McOmber has performed for audiences across six continents at venues such as The Barbican Centre, Bonnaroo, Coachella, Dakar Fashion Week, Disney Hall, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman, Lincoln Center, Lollapalooza, Madison Square Garden, Primavera Sound and Radio City Music Hall.
Known For

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.
Fair Play

In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.
Skin

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
It Comes at Night

Diana Watts, a high school teacher in Austin, Texas, is in the midst of an affair with one of her students, Eric Tull. As the reality of their situation forces itself upon them, Diana puts the relationship on hold. It’s only a matter of time before she gives in again to her desire; this time even more recklessly than before.
A Teacher

The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society.
Hail Satan?

While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.
Blow the Man Down

A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Stockholm, Pennsylvania

For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.
Little Woods

Revisits the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in custody at the border. When eye-witness video emerges, it sparks a far-reaching investigation from a border checkpoint to Washington D.C. CRITICAL INCIDENT chronicles journalists’, lawyers’, and family members’ efforts to explore the Border Patrol’s involvement in the incident, ultimately pointing to cover-ups, and uncovering the existence of a little-known unit inside the agency that had been involved in other border related incident.
Critical Incident: Death at the Border

When Krisha returns to her estranged family for Thanksgiving dinner, past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
Krisha

When a 10-year old girl goes missing, her stepfather races against time to investigate the kidnapping. Can he find her before it's too late?
Ugly

Twenty-year-old Ryan struggles with a debilitating anxiety disorder following his father's death. Together with his two brothers, he must fight to break the destructive cycle threatening their family as ancient darkness closes in on them.
The Shade

An internet-dating playboy's life spirals out of control after meeting a woman online.
Bad Match

The true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a small-town Kansas doctor who discovers in 1917 that he can cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. And that’s just the tipping point in this stranger-than-fiction tale. With the balls of a P.T. Barnum, the gonads of goats, and the wishful dreams of flaccid men, Brinkley amassed a fortune, was almost elected Governor of Kansas, invented junk mail and the infomercial, and built the world’s most powerful radio station. By the time all of the twists and turns of Brinkley’s story are revealed, Nuts! certainly earns its title.
Nuts!

In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home.
Mickey and the Bear

An unlucky musician returns back home on the day of his younger brother's movie premiere to steal and sell his computer to the paparazzi.
Shadow Brother Sunday

A dissident Russian journalist chases the world’s most feared mercenary army, Wagner, across the globe—Ukraine, Syria, the Central African Republic, and beyond. Her team faces death threats and three of her colleagues are murdered as they race to unmask a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.
Hell's Army

The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russel’s Altered States and Mike Nichols’s The Day of the Dolphin. Directors Michael Almareyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is the feature film version of the 2011 short film going by the same name.
The Strange Ones

When Krisha decides to join her estranged family for a holiday dinner, tensions escalate as she struggles to keep her demons at bay.