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Award-winning alumnus seeks Kickstarter support

Academy Award-winner Ron Judkins ’75 is seeking support for his latest film through a Kickstarter campaign.

Never heard of Ron Judkins ’75? Moviegoers may not know his name, but they know his sound. Judkins, who studied filmmaking at Meadows School of the Arts, has won Academy Awards for Best Sound for Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan. He also was nominated for his sound-design skills on Schindler’s List and War of the Worlds. His latest collaboration with director Steven Spielberg is the movie Lincoln.
The project that has Judkins really excited, however, is his own film, Neighbors, which he wrote and directed. He and his producers are using Kickstarter, an online fundraising platform for creative projects, to raise money to complete post-production on the movie.
>View Ron Judkins’ Kickstarter video

Ron Judkins with producers Judy Korin and Jennifer Young

“In May 2011, we started principle photography on my film Neighbors. We cut the film until September 2011, at which point I went to work on Lincoln, and then I went back to working on Neighbors in January 2012,” he says. “We are very close to finishing the film.”
Judkins calls Neighbors, “a comedy-drama about a graphic novelist facing down a midlife crisis.” The film stars Michael O’Keefe, Catherine Dent, Blake Bashoff, Julie Mond and Sean Patrick Thomas, and it includes many of Judkins’ own neighborhood friends.
After graduating from SMU, Judkins worked as a sound recordist in Dallas before moving to Los Angeles in 1979. In addition to working as a sound engineer on major motion pictures, Judkins is also an independent filmmaker. His first film, The Hi-Line, debuted at Sundance in 1999. He also has produced several independent films.

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