Kyle Rankin is a filmmaker

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

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Early life

Kyle Rankin went to school at the University of Maine

University of Maine

The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...

 in Orono

Orono, Maine

Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It was first settled in 1774 and named in honor of Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation. It is home to The University of Maine. The population was 10,362 at the 2010 census.- Geography :...

 where he founded the University's Film and Video Club. It was at the university that Rankin was star and co-producer of a soap opera on campus called "DORM", which was eventually released with the episodes compiled into one feature length film.

Movie career

He co-directed The Battle of Shaker Heights

The Battle of Shaker Heights

The Battle of Shaker Heights is a 2003 comedy-drama film co-directed by Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin. It starred Shia La Beouf, Elden Henson, Kathleen Quinlan, Amy Smart, and Shiri Appleby...

through the second season of HBO's Project Greenlight

Project Greenlight

Project Greenlight was a contest and television series focusing on first-time filmmakers being given the chance to direct a feature film. It was created by Alex Keledjian, developed by Eli Holzman and produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Sean Bailey, and Chris Moore through their production...

. He wrote and directed a movie produced by Icon Productions

Icon Productions

Icon Productions LLC is an American independent production company founded in August 1989 by actor/director Mel Gibson and Australian producing partner Bruce Davey.-History:Icon started when Gibson was having trouble in financing the 1990 film Hamlet...

, called Infestation, it stars Chris Marquette, Ray Wise

Ray Wise

Raymond Nicolas "Ray" Wise is an American actor, known for his roles as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, as Leon C. Nash, right-hand henchman to villain Clarence Boddicker in the science fiction classic RoboCop, and recently as the Devil in the CW television series Reaper.-Life and career:Wise was...

, Brooke Nevin

Brooke Nevin

Brooke Candice Nevin is a Canadian actress, best known for portraying Rachel Berenson on the science fiction series Animorphs and currently starring as Julianne "Jules" Simms on Breakout Kings, as well as Sonja Lester on Call Me Fitz...

 and Kinsey Packard and was shot in summer 2007 in Bulgaria. He recently created the feature/web-series NUCLEAR FAMILY (2011) and lives in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 as an independent writer/director.

Filmography

• Nuclear Family (2011)
• Exhibit B-5 (2010)
• Infestation
  Infestation (2009 film)
  Infestation is a 2009 Horror-Dramedy feature film by American writer/director Kyle Rankin. Produced by Mel Gibson's Icon Entertainment and starring Chris Marquette. It was filmed in Bulgaria.-Synopsis:...
  
  (2009)
• Hellholes
  Hellholes
  Hellholes is an original Internet Dark Comedy/Horror from Atom Film Studios about a man who discovers his trailer home is a portal into another dimension. Since its debut in late 2006, the series has quite successfully been streamed on the Atom Films website, where it has already received over...
  
  (Internet film) (2006)
• Insex
  Insex
  Insex was one of the biggest BDSM pornographic websites on the Internet and arguably the most extreme American pornographic production featuring female submissives. It was also a leading innovator in both live video streaming, pioneering the concept before broadband Internet access existed, and in...
  
  (2006)
• The Battle of Shaker Heights
  The Battle of Shaker Heights
  The Battle of Shaker Heights is a 2003 comedy-drama film co-directed by Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin. It starred Shia La Beouf, Elden Henson, Kathleen Quinlan, Amy Smart, and Shiri Appleby...
  
  (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)

External links

• Official Kyle Rankin website