Kyle Rankin
Kyle Rankin (born 13 September 1972 in Danbury, Connecticut) is a filmmaker.
Biography
Early life
Kyle Rankin attended the University of Maine in Orono where he founded the UMaine Film & Video Club.[1] It was at university that Rankin was star and co-producer of a soap opera on campus called DORM, which was eventually released statewide (through Home Vision Video) with the episodes compiled into one feature-length film.[2]
Movie career
Kyle co-directed The Battle of Shaker Heights through the second season of HBO's Project Greenlight.[3] He wrote and directed a movie produced by Icon Productions, called Infestation, it stars Chris Marquette, Ray Wise, Brooke Nevin and was shot in the summer of 2007 in Bulgaria.[4] He created the feature/web-series Nuclear Family (2011), and the indie features Night of the Living Deb (2015) and The Witch Files (2017). Run Hide Fight (2020) was filmed in Red Oak, Texas in the fall of 2019 and stars Isabel May, Thomas Jane, and Radha Mitchell. Rankin lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
Filmography
- Run Hide Fight (2021)
- The Witch Files (2017)
- Night of the Living Deb (2015)
- Nuclear Family (2011)
- Exhibit B-5 (2010)
- Infestation (2009)
- Hellholes (Internet film) (2006)
- Insex (short film) (2006)
- The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)
- Alias: The Lost Episode (2002)
- They Came to Attack Us (2001)
- Pennyweight (1999)
- The Girl in the Basement (1997) (Formerly known as "Reindeer Games")
- Dorm (1995)