BIO
Tamara Kachelmeier is an audio engineer, re-recording mixer, producer, composer, director, screenwriter, pianist, vocalist, and singer-songwriter. She has written music that has appeared on the History Channel and CNBC. Tamara has won awards for best film score, best web series, and best music video. She has mixed over 152 films including Chiqui, a film that appeared in the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. She runs her own recording and production studio called Ghost Dog Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Tamara is currently working on a new album that includes myoelectric sensors, artificial intelligence, and neural/physiological data called “You are Here.”
Tamara received a Master’s degree in Media Scoring from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and Advanced Certificate in Music Education from Brooklyn College. She studied voice, piano, audio engineering, music production, sound design, music education, and composition at Gustavus Adolphus College, Berklee College of Music, McNally Smith College of Music, MCTC, Full Sail University, Brooklyn College, and the Academy of Art University.
Tamara is a life long learner and is pursuing a MS degree in Information Technology from Southern New Hampshire University and a Motorcycle Certificate in Maintenance and Repair Technology/Technician from Penn Foster.
She has written music that has appeared on the History Channel and CNBC. Tamara has also mixed and created sound designs for films that have appeared at the Sundance Film Festival (2022), LA's WonderCon, Art of Brooklyn Festival, GELOS Comedy Film Festival, Comic Film Festival, Art City Short Film Festival, Genre Celebration Festival, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Court Metrage Festival de Cones, Kids Rule Film Festival in Australia (Festival Winner Audience Favorite) and Top Indie Film Awards.
PROGRAMS & SKILLS
• Adobe (InDesign, Photoshop CC, Premiere Pro, Acrobat CC) • AVID Pro Tools HD (5.1 Mixing, Certified User, S6M40 Console) • Final Draft 11 • Logic Pro X • iZotope (Insight, Ozone, RX 7) • WAVE Plug-ins • Universal Audio Plug-ins • Native Instruments • Omnisphere
• Revoice Pro • Melodyne • Reaktor • Microsoft Word & Excel • Max 8 • Arduino • Sibelius • ProPresenter 6 • Altiverb
• Soldering Cables, Fixing Microphones and Creating Microphones • VocAlign Ultra Advanced Timing and Pitch Alignment • East/West
Avid Certified User
AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - COMPOSER - Chris Ortiz - Red Sin (2024) - Gothamite Monthly Award, Orinos Film Awards New York Award Winner (2024) , International Independent Film Awards, Silver Winner (2024)
DIRECTOR, COMPOSER, RE-RECORDING MIXER, VOICE-OVER ACTOR, Starlight on Earth, Winner of Best Web Series, Reel Harmony & Script Festival (2023)
COMPOSER, RE-RECORDING MIXER - Been Tobin - Hugh and The Statue - Best Rom-com Short film, Poor Life Choices Comedy Film Festival (2024), Clown International Film Festival (2024)
DIRECTOR, EDITOR, RE-RECORDING MIXER, CINEMATOGRAPHER - Tamara Kachelmeier - Gone, Best Music Video World Music Festival (2023)
DIRECTOR, EDITOR, SCRIPT WRITER, RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGN, -Tamara Kachelmeier -Series Web Awards (2023)
RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGN, FOLEY - Carlos Cardona - Sundance Film Festival (2022)
COMPOSER - Chris Ortiz - Red Sin (2021) - Best Istanbul Film Festival, Best Original Score - Uruvatti International Film Festival (2021)
RE- RECORDING MIXER - Cynthia Dunston - Dark Vision - Finalist World Cannes Film Festival (2021)
RE-RECORDING MIXER - Phoebe Comes Home - Global Independent Film Awards (2021)
RE-RECORDING MIXER - Lazarus Lazarides - Dreamers Playground - Internatıonal Children's Right Film Festıval (2022), Best Human Rights Film - World Film Festival (2022)
RE-RECORDING MIXER & COMPOSER - Julie Petrusak & Jermaine Burrowes - Veto (2020) - Big Apple Film Festival
RE-RECORDING MIXER & COMPOSER - Ben Tobin - (The Double Life of Hugh), Winner International Film& Script Festival Lotus (2023), Honorable Mention Various Artists Film Festival (2023), LA's WonderCon, GELOS Comedy Film Festival, Australia Kids Rule Films Festival Winner Audience Favorite (2020), Official Selection Lit Laughs International Comedy Film Festival, Best Mime Short, BEST GLOBAL SHORTS Season 6, 2021
RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSER - Protectors of the Wood Films - Phoebe Comes Home (2020) Winner of Award of Special Recognition at The indieFEST film awards (2020)
RE-RECORDING MIXER & SOUND DESIGN - Ali Vil - The Silk Road (2019) - Special Festival Mention 8th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival
RE-RECORDING MIXER - Tony Clemens - How to Fit a Fitted Sheet (2019) -Official Selection for Art of Brooklyn Festival
RE-RECORDING MIXER - Tony Clemens - How to Fit a Fitted Sheet (2019) - Bowery Film Festival
RE-RECORDING MIXER & SOUND DESIGN -Rose Haag - Barren (2018) - SF Shorts San Francisco International Festival of Short Films
COMPOSER - Chris Omar - You Found a Home (2019) - Nominated for Best Documentary at Brooklyn College Film Festival
SOUND DESIGN - Mor Cohen - The New Galileos (2017) - Official Selection for Comic Film Festival, ArtCity Short Film Festival, Genre Celebration Festival, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Court Metrage Festival de Cones, and Top Indie Film Awards
NOMINATIONS
RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGN, COMPOSER - Ben Tobin - The Double Life of Hugh, All The Laughs Comedy Awards, Kids First Film and Video Festival,Willlachen Comedy & Satire Filmprize Festival, The Golden Cellar Rattle Festival, and The Ahmedabad International Children Film Festival, Red Cedar Film Festival, CMS International Children’s Film Festival
COMPOSER - Chris Ortiz, Official Selection Latino Film Market, 2024
COMPOSER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR, WRITER, RE-RECORDING MIXER - John KixMiller, Phoebe Comes Home, Kids First Film Festival (2024)
RE-RECORDING MIXER, FILM CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR - Tamara Kachelmeier, Gone, Europe Music Awards 2022
RE-RECORDING MIXER, FILM CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR, PRODUCER, PERFORMER - Tamara Kachelmeier, Nature Lives Here, Music Video Awards 2022
RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGN - Cynthia Duston - Reach for Me, Finalist of International Music Video Awards
RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGN, & COMPOSER - Hugh and the Statue (Ben Tobin), Officially selected, Padova 4th Wall Indie Filmmaker Festival 2021
COMPOSER - Chris Ortiz - Red Sin, Best Trailer, The Monthly Film Festival
RE-RECORDING MIXER & COMPOSER - Emma Without Edmund - Nick Minas, Officially Selected, LA Shorts 2021
COMPOSER - Nicolas McMillian - Mind of Steel, Officially Selected Caribbean Tales International Film Festival
RE-RECORDING MIXER, SOUND DESIGNER, COMPOSER - John KixMiller, Protectors of the Wood Adventure Series/Podcast, Austoria Film Festival (2021), GLOWFEST (2021), DigiFest Temecula 2024
NewfizillaProductions.com - THE DOUBLE LIFE OF HUGH - COMPOSER & RE-RECORDING MIXER
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