A Long Road to Tao-Post Production

Post Production

Larry Groupé - Music Composer

Larry Groupe is an accomplished music composer and has many feature films under his belt. Larry and I met in 2006 when we were first assembling a team early on. Larry and I both have a love of the ocean and we connected immediately.

He is one of the most talented and versatile composers working today in the entertainment industry. With an impressive musical resume in film and television as well as the concert stage. Besides A Long Road to Tao, his list of films that he scored includes: The Outpost, Straw Dogs, Nothing But The Truth, Resurrecting the Champ, Commander in Chief, The Contender, and more. Larry is also a professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Larry writes about composing for our film, "This is a journey. The elements of water/sea, wind/silence, fire/cleansing is explored via a connection to Tao. My objective with this score was to combine the elements of travel both physically and spiritually with music and orchestrations that are vivid and at times almost supernatural. Epic in scope but intimate within the heart."

Rick LeCompte - Editor

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Rick LeCompte is an editor known for Sold (2016), Unleashed (2016), Bartleby (2001) and Cherish (2002). He has edited documentaries The Loss of Nameless Things (2004) and This Dust of Words (2008) which played on PBS. Rick's video edit of historic footage shot in North Carolina and Virginia in the late 1930s played on screen behind a live concert by violinist Jenny Scheinman at the Washington, DC National Gallery of Art.

Rick and Alex worked together through all of 2023 editing the film. Alex had to go through terabytes of data to see what shots would work best, which takes were the most dramatic, and what b-roll transitions scenes were still needed. Alex would call me up and ask for a specific shot, and then Dayne and I would go out and get the shot. Through this process, we built a library of beauty shots including sunsets, sunrises, crashing waves, time-lapse of clouds moving across the sky, etc. Rick and Alex kept editing until we finally had to say that the film was done, and that was not easy to do.

Tom Disher - Composer, Sound Designer and Audio Post Engineer

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Mr. Disher is passionate about bringing your story to life through music and sound. Whether it’s intense and powerful, simple and heartfelt, or quirky and unexpected, Tom knows how to elicit the perfect sound- both hands-on, and conducting an ever widening stable of world class musicians and sound designers.

Decades of experience mixing and editing means you get a nuanced soundtrack that delivers your story with style. Son of an aero-space engineer, technical details have an organic fluency that translate into artistic excellence.

Tom flew out to New Mexico to capture ambient sound for the film. His passion for this project was undeniable. His work on this film brought everything to a new level and he was great to work with.

Sherwin Lau - Color Grading

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Mr. Lao is an award-winning filmmaker and educator based in New Mexico. Since 2006, he has worked on feature films, documentaries, commercials and music videos and has collaborated with filmmakers all around the world. He has worked for clients such as Warner Brothers Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Fueled By Ramen, Blackmagic Design, Crush, and Gypsy City Music. His professional work has been featured in prestigious film publications like American Cinematographer (June 2016). In addition to his filmmaking career, he is an assistant professor at the Creative Media Institute at New Mexico State University.

Sherwin oversaw his students as we made this film with all of his student crew from NMSU CMI (Creative Media Institute).

Johnnie Bamont - Music Composing

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Mr. Bamont, a San Francisco native musician and surfer, grew up in the musically diverse environment that the San Francisco Bay Area offers. Johnnie has performed with numerous jazz, classical, latin, R&B and funk groups. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Music at San Francisco State University, and plays all saxes (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone ), flute and arranges.

Johnnie, a member of Huey Lewis and the News, has performed and toured with numerous artists including Boz Scaggs, Dr. John, The Temptations, Frankie Valli, Larry Carlton, Donna Summers, Third World, Four Tops, 2007 European tour with Sly & the Family Stone, Elvin Bishop, Tower of Power, The Sons of Champlin, Lydia Pence and Cold Blood, and the 2019 30th anniversary tour with Japan’s top pop group Dreams Come True.

Johnnie added his memorable Saxaphone score to the end credits to finish the movie.