BIO
Tamara Kachelmeier is an award-winning audio engineer, re-recording mixer, producer, composer, director, screenwriter, pianist, vocalist, and singer-songwriter. Her original music has been featured on major networks including the History Channel and CNBC, and her creative work has earned recognition for Best Film Score, Best Web Series, and Best Music Video. With over 152 films to her credit, Tamara’s post-production expertise includes Chiqui, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. She has also contributed as a re-recording mixer for New York Film Academy student films, helping emerging filmmakers bring their soundtracks to life.
She has worked with the Emmy Award–winning studio Baboon Animation, contributing to projects that blend storytelling, humor, and global impact in children’s media and entertainment.
Tamara is the founder of Ghost Dog Studio, a Brooklyn-based recording and production facility where she develops innovative sound and multimedia projects. She is currently producing an experimental album titled You Are Here, which integrates myoelectric sensors, artificial intelligence, and neural/physiological data to explore the intersection of music, the body, and machine learning.
In addition to her creative work, Tamara is pursuing a PhD in Music Education, where her research focuses on the transformative role of sound, technology, and artistic expression in contemporary learning environments.
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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