Gabriel Kahane

Biography by Dina White, Krupp Kommunications (at time of publication) Gabriel Kahane's films tend to focus on the internal dynamics of characters, and are often inspired by music. "I've always looked at the world in pictures and music," Gabriel says. "When listening to a song I'd visualize a story in my mind to go along with the music. It all starts from music for me. Listening to music and visualizing little moments that I see on the street. Sometimes I'd see myself in the third person while I walked to school in the morning - and think about what the most meaningful way to film that walk would be." When Gabriel was a Sophomore at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts in New York City, he enlisted a few classmates and wrote, filmed, produced, and directed the film Must Be This Tall To Ride (2016), which screened around the country, won the Grand Jury Prize in category at the Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, received two other nominations and a warm reception on the festival circuit; including a screening at the famous TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood and distribution with SoFy TV. Following that, Kahane was selected as a Young Arts winner in Cinematic Arts for his film, Latent (2018), a national recognition granted to a select few artists annually. Gabriel then enrolled at Hamilton College for two years before deciding to pursue film full-time. Gabriel is in late stages post-production on his first feature film, Benji's Hour. Other projects at various stages of production includes a documentary in post-production, which was filmed on the border of Gaza January of 2019, and Gabriel's second narrative feature, for which the script is completed. Kahane has always loved to perform, on the other side of the camera or on stage. It's in his blood. As a young child, his greatest passion was magic. He was a member of the Society of American Magicians, did street magic at New York's South Street Seaport, and appeared in a documentary about young magicians which aired on PBS. Despite predictions in the magic world of his becoming the next Jeff McBride, he eventually shifted away and found himself at nine years old, creating little vignettes on an iPod touch to kill time in the doctor's office. "I was doing it because it just felt right."