About RiverBend Films
RiverBend Films is the personal production studio of filmmaker Kevin G. Bender and has been in operation since September 2003 under the name AmrasSaralonde Films and since October 2006 under its present name. RiverBend Films is responsible for such films as The Receipt and Below the Beltway along with numerous short films and other projects.
RiverBend Films' The Receipt
RiverBend Films' flagship film is The Receipt, its feature-length romantic comedy which premiered in Charlottesville, Virginia in April 2008. The film, whose entire cast and crew were at the time students at the University of Virginia, opened to considerable local media attention and local critical acclaim. The Receipt, with a final production budget of over $9,000, over 50 minutes of original musical score, a cast and crew of over fifty people, over 30 shooting locations, and clocking-in at 80 minutes long, is to this day the largest, most expensive, and most ambitious student film ever made at the University of Virginia and has been viewed by thousands of people nationwide. You can watch trailers online or visit the official website.
Production Operations, Specialities, and Collaborators
RiverBend Films can boast the completion of four feature-length films and over thirty short-films from every genre from documentary to political satire with many other films still in-production, including music videos, commercials, and action-adventure films. Our principal achievements are the feature films The Receipt (our flagship film), Seven Days Under the Sun, Below the Beltway, and the short film Running Out of Time.
Our principal speciality is digital film production and post-production in High Definition (1080p) utilizing the latest available technologies, including Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and all methods of media delivery online, including QuickTime and Adobe Flash video in high definition. We do all post-production, including native HD video editing, sound editing, sound mixing, and final rendering, in-house utilizing the Adobe Creative Suite Professional CS3 (Premiere Pro CS3, AfterEffects CS3, Audition CS3, Soundbooth CS3, Encore CS3) as well as in-house home video production and distribution including DVD authoring and (forthcoming) high definition content for Sony Blu-Ray Disc. Most recently, The Receipt features over fifty minutes of score digitally composed and sequenced using the much-acclaimed Vienna Symphonic Library Orchestra Ensemble Special Edition digital instrument suite.
The principal owner and operator of RiverBend Films is filmmaker Kevin G. Bender, but over the years there have been a number of principal collaborators on major film projects. Our earliest collaborators on such short films as Eyes of the Distance were Kavi Jivan and Nicholas Theodosakis. Nick would go on to become a part of the collaboration team of Life's a Smoose which would also include Samantha Clarkson, Jessica Begans, Thomas Nash, Maleika Cole, Paul Shoemaker, and principal collaborator Ryan McElveen, which would also become the main collaboration team of Below the Beltway. Ryan would also be the primary collaborator on a number of short films along with Brooke Larson who would be a major collaborator and partner on both Below the Beltway and Running Out of Time. Rachel Bernstein would become a screenwriting collaborator on The Receipt and Twilight Upon the Walls of Avaricum (forthcoming script) and would join the current main collaborative team behind Receipt, including Michael Benonis, Kevin Collins, Sarah Elizabeth Edwards, Mauri Epstein, Matthew Marcus, Zachary Pruckowski, and music composer Kyle Ringgenberg. Kyle Ringgenberg, Zachary Pruckowski, and Matthew Marcus will rejoin Kevin G. Bender for The Artist, slated for release sometime in 2009.
RiverBend Films' Below the Beltway
Below the Beltway, a comedy/drama/satire released in February 2007, is one of RiverBend Films' most ambitious and successful productions. Below the Beltway is a highly-artistic film that follows the trials and tribulations of six northern Virginia suburbanites applying for the same minimum-wage job, but is principally an exploration of runaway greed and hypocrisy among America's well-to-do suburban youths. Film trailers can be watched online or you can visit the film's Official Website.
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