Gabriel Kahane(II)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
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 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 online and in South Korea. Following that, Kahane was selected as a Young Arts winner in Cinematic Arts in 2018, a national recognition granted to a select few artists annually. Following that he attended Hamilton College for two years before dropping out to make his debut feature film and then transferring to Columbia University, after which he decided to pursue film full time.
Gabriel will soon be releasing his debut feature film, Benji's Hour, which world premiered in competition at the Calgary International Film Festival, followed by screenings at Catalina Film Festival and Hell's Half Mile, where it won two juried awards. He is in production on a feature documentary and in development on his next narrative feature.
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 his VHS camera to kill time in the doctor's office. "I was doing it because it just felt right."
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 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 online and in South Korea. Following that, Kahane was selected as a Young Arts winner in Cinematic Arts in 2018, a national recognition granted to a select few artists annually. Following that he attended Hamilton College for two years before dropping out to make his debut feature film and then transferring to Columbia University, after which he decided to pursue film full time.
Gabriel will soon be releasing his debut feature film, Benji's Hour, which world premiered in competition at the Calgary International Film Festival, followed by screenings at Catalina Film Festival and Hell's Half Mile, where it won two juried awards. He is in production on a feature documentary and in development on his next narrative feature.
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 his VHS camera to kill time in the doctor's office. "I was doing it because it just felt right."