Dave Eichhorn
Director

Dave Eichhorn is a multiple award-winning filmmaker, editor, sound editor & re-recording mixer with more than 30 years in the business and over 300 credits on a huge assortment of Hollywood films and television shows. To date he's earned 3 Primetime Emmys, 12 Emmy nominations, 5 MPSE Golden Reel awards, 15 Golden Reel nominations, and an RIAA Gold Record. 

His resume includes projects for Disney, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Universal, FOX, CBS, NBC, FX Network, Showtime and Hallmark, to name a few, and his rather unusual but comprehensive skillset has landed him work with a who's who list of top-name Hollywood producers & directors, including Mikhail Solomon, Russell Mulcahy, Jon Voight, Ernest Dickerson, Betty Thomas, Jon Turtletaub, Keenan Ivory Wayans and Charles Carner. He has also worked on dozens of commercials for companies like Facebook, Subaru and Nike. 

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Dave drove himself to Los Angeles in 1983 with one goal in mind: to get into the film industry and make movies. As a boy he was fascinated with photography, film, and sound recording -- and he admittedly spent a lot of what he calls "nerdy alone time" creating self-produced audio skits and short films. And at the age of 21, on the advice of his OSU film school professor, he moved to Hollywood -- and quite soon afterwards started 'sneaking thru the gates' of the major studios -- a feat that is much more difficult to pull off today.

But he quickly came to realize that if you don't know anyone in the business, you need credits -- so he volunteered on various films, holding the boom, sometimes operating the Nagra recorder, and of course, getting the donuts. His first big break came when he landed a paying job at the National Geographic Specials in 1987. And just a few years later, at the age of 26, he became Hollywood's youngest supervising sound editor and found himself not only supervising a team of editors but also directing A-list talent on the ADR stage - including Robert Duvall, Viggo Mortenson, Amanda Plummer, Peter Fonda and TV's James Garner. 

Dave's directing credits include several short documentaries, 7 commercials, a BTS mini-feature, 2 music videos, and a handful of promotional films. "Guys Night" will be his first feature film, and he feels right at home. "I was 17 when I started shooting film. Nobody could rip that Super-8 film camera out of my hands - I drove my family and friends crazy. But I know now that by screwing around for so many hours with that camera, I was internalizing dynamic camera work & composition, and learning the capabilities and limitations of stock and lenses. I also discovered that the 'language of film' is entirely natural to me, and I started figuring out how to tell stories with a camera".

When not prepping for Guys Night, Dave operates Post in the Woods, his Los Angeles-based post-house geared specifically for the indie filmmaking community. "We are a one-stop shop for professional film finishing services. I love working one-on-one with talented new up-and-coming directors and producers. It essentially allows me to make movies every day."

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Website: http://www.postinthewoods.com/