PRODUCTION SOUND
Location sound mixing for features, scripted series, documentary, commercials, and festival shorts — Los Angeles based, available to travel anywhere.
Borna Moinpour has recorded 200+ shoot days since 2024 across scripted vertical series, independent features, documentaries, commercials, and festival shorts. He specializes in fast-paced productions where schedules are tight, dialogue coverage is critical, and there is no room for missed moments.
He provides a complete location sound package and works seamlessly with both independent crews and productions with their own sound department infrastructure. With experience in both production sound and post-production as an MPSE Golden Reel–nominated supervising sound editor, he approaches each recording day with an understanding of how dialogue and performance will carry through the final film.
- 200+Total shoot days since 2024
- 50+Vertical series productions
- 2Features as production sound mixer
- LABased · available to travel
Selected Credits
Click any poster for full credits and synopsis.
Details
Home
Details
You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost
Outstanding Sound, First Look 2026Best Drama, First Look 2026USC First Look 2026
Details
A Real Lady Killer
Details
Tomorrow Night
Details
The Case of the Missing Afikomen
Details
Held at Gunpoint
Outstanding Sound, First Look 2024 (shared with Moxie Zhang)USC First Look 2024
Details
Curtains
Details
Untitled
Home
A viral-obsessed influencer exploits a homeless former actress to boost her fame, pretending to rescue her for the camera. But when the woman realizes she has no family or home to return to, she must choose between captivity disguised as kindness and the harsh freedom of the streets.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost
A man visiting his family's rural estate begins to suspect the property is haunted — but his search for answers uncovers a far more sinister darkness that has plagued his family generationally.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer · Supervising Sound Editor · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Sound, First Look 2026
Winner — Best Drama, First Look 2026 - Festivals
- USC First Look 2026
Lock
During China's strict COVID lockdown, Yufei, a repressed woman inspecting her marital apartment, finds herself unexpectedly confined with a rugged construction worker. As frustration turns to rebellion, a fleeting romance blossoms — only to dissolve as soon as the lockdown lifts.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
- Festivals
- USC First Look 2025
Corazón en el Diamante
When tragedy strikes during Cecilia's big baseball game, 15-year-old Cecilia and her mom, Gloria, face an uncertain future. Spanish-language.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
- Festivals
- USC First Look 2025 · South Central Film Festival · Culver City Film Festival
Held at Gunpoint
A veteran high school teacher must decide whether to leave her beloved career amidst an epidemic of gun violence in America.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Sound, First Look 2024 (shared with Moxie Zhang)
- Festivals
- USC First Look 2024 · Dances With Films, Los Angeles · Beverly Hills Film Festival · Catalina Film Festival
Mind Games
An unsettled therapist individually counsels both members of a troubled couple, becoming dangerously entangled in their relationship — to the point of uprooting her own family. Feature, 94 min.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer
- Awards
- Official Selection — Dances With Films, Los Angeles
Neither Donkey Nor Horse
Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both East and West to champion his theory of the disease. 28 min.
- Role
- Boom Operator
- Awards
- Official Selection — Telluride Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, San Diego International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival
A Real Lady Killer
A particular man who is desperate for love finally meets his match. Narrative short, 15 min.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer
Tomorrow Night
A quiet portrait of an aging couple, shot on location. Narrative short, 14 min.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer
The Case of the Missing Afikomen
A branching-narrative comedy in which a young detective hunts for the missing afikomen.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer
Parvaz
An ongoing documentary series. Borna re-recording mixed Season 1 and is production sound mixer on Season 3, currently unreleased.
- Role
- Re-Recording Mixer (Season 1) · Production Sound Mixer (Season 3)
- Sound team
- Kevin Remy (production sound mixer, Season 1)
Untitled
A struggling screenwriter reconnects with an old friend who has just sold a hit TV series. As envy simmers and boundaries blur, a fateful decision propels him to sudden success — at the cost of his conscience.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer
- Sound team
- Jalen Conway (sound designer) · Peter Zongting Li (re-recording mixer, sound designer) · Victoria Z. Dong (sound)
- Key crew
- April Liu, Quyao Zhi (editors) · Abel Guan (camera) · William Perry (music)
Rates
Labor
Per 10-hour day, mixer only. 10-hour minimum call.
- Narrative short / indieStudent, thesis, and low-budget independent
- $400
- Feature / episodic / documentaryMulti-day and recurring schedules
- $500
- Commercial / brandedAgency-directed, IFB feed for client
- $500
- Travel & prep day
- Day rate
Equipment Package
Billed as an equipment rental, separate from labor.
- Standard packageMixPre-10, 2 booms, 4 wireless, 4 lavs, timecode, slate, comms
- $200
- Full packageAll 7 wireless channels, 6 lavs, 4 timecode boxes, 3 comms
- $400
- ExpendablesBatteries, tape, consumables
- $50
À la carte
Per item, per day — for smaller or partial builds.
- Recorder — Sound Devices MixPre-10
- $200
- Boom kit — MKH 416 or MKH 50
- $75
- Wireless channel — Deity or Sennheiser
- $75
- Sanken COS-11 lavalier
- $35
- Timecode box
- $25
- Deity smart slate
- $75
- Comms / IFB headset
- $50
- Camera hop
- $75
Additional Crew
Booked through Borna, rate passed through.
- Boom operatorRecommended on dialogue-heavy days
- $200
- Sound utility
- $100
Terms. Overtime 1.5× hourly after 10 hours, 2× after 12. Local zone is 30 miles from central Los Angeles; beyond that, mileage at the current IRS rate and portal-to-portal billing. Per diem at GSA rates on distant location. A hot meal is required within six hours of call. Cancellation inside 72 hours bills at 100% of labor and equipment; 3–7 days bills at 50%. Production carries insurance and lists the equipment as additionally insured. Invoices are Net 15. Every production is different — these are starting figures, not a ceiling or a floor.
Package (Owned)
- Recorder — Sound Devices MixPre-10
- Booms — Sennheiser MKH 416, MKH 50 · 2× K-Tek 12′ poles
- Wireless — 4× Deity, 3× Sennheiser channels
- Lavaliers — 6× Sanken COS-11
- Timecode — 4× sync boxes · Deity smart slate
- Comms — 3× units with headsets
- Also operates — Sound Devices 8-Series, Zaxcom Nomad
- Included — full cabling, mounts, and accessories
Available for narrative, documentary, and commercial work in the LA area.
Check availability