SOUND DESIGN
Supervising sound editorial, re-recording mixing, and sound design for feature films, festival shorts, and documentary.
Borna Moinpour is an MPSE Golden Reel–nominated sound editor and mixer based in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Film & Television Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he served as a Teaching Assistant and Sound Engineering Assistant supporting the school’s sound facilities and productions.
His work covers the full post-production sound process, from dialogue editing and ADR to Foley, sound design, and final mixing. With a background in architectural engineering, Borna approaches sound through the lens of space and storytelling—considering the larger emotional landscape of a film while shaping the smallest details that define a character’s experience and the audience’s connection to each moment.
- Winner — Outstanding Sound, USC SCA First Look 2026 · You Look Like You’ve Seen a Ghost
- Winner — Outstanding Sound, USC SCA First Look 2024 · Held at Gunpoint
- Nominee — MPSE 72nd Golden Reel Awards, Verna Fields Award · Last Remembrances
Selected Credits
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Home
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Transparent Boundaries
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Suddenly, It Feels Like the Last Summer
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Pastor’s Kid
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Expectations
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They Know Not What They Do
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. 17:40.
- Role
- Production Sound Mixer · Supervising Sound Editor · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Sound, USC SCA First Look 2026
Winner — Best Drama, USC SCA First Look 2026 - Sound team
- Cheyu Chao, Sean Foster, Victoria Dong (boom operators) · Cheyu Chao, Alisina Saee-Nazari (sound editors) · Cheyu Chao (Foley)
- Key crew
- Arman Khaghani (cinematography) · Derek Manansala, Brandon Walsh (editing)
Breathe, Brother, Breathe
An asthmatic Iranian-American high schooler learns the trumpet to keep a precious friendship intact, reconnect with his emotionally distant family, and take control of his fragmented life. Farsi & English, 20:00.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Additional Production Sound Mixer
- Awards
- Nominee — Best Drama, USC SCA First Look 2026
Official Selection — Dances With Films - Sound team
- Jon Peter Lewis (production sound) · Alejandro Flores (addl. production sound) · Coleman Weimer (sound editor) · Alisina Saee-Nazari (re-recording mixer)
- Key crew
- Rocky Huang (cinematography) · Julie Schuldt (editing) · Shao Jean, Alex Mansour (score)
Adelante Matador
After a near-death injury, a legendary Mexican matador must confront the growing opposition to bullfighting in modern times, face his estranged wife, and reckon with his cultural identity. 22:22.
- Role
- Sound Designer
- Awards
- Nominee — Best Social Change, USC SCA First Look 2026
- Sound team
- Bang “Jovial” Xiao (supervising sound editor, sound design) · Victoria Dong (sound design) · Doris “Yushu” Shen (re-recording mixer)
- Key crew
- Harnish Ambaliya (cinematography) · April Liu (editing)
Held at Gunpoint
A veteran high school teacher must decide whether to leave her beloved career amidst an epidemic of gun violence in America. 22:36.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Sound, USC SCA First Look 2024, shared with Moxie Zhang
Official Selection — Dances With Films, Los Angeles - Sound team
- Moxie Zhang
- Key crew
- Marlana Dunn (cinematography) · Derek Manansala, Christy Chen (editing)
Last Remembrances
After filming the final words of a terminally ill hospice patient, a videographer must decide whether to reveal the troubling video to the patient’s only daughter.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Nominee — Verna Fields Award, MPSE 72nd Golden Reel Awards, shared with Sean Foster
- Sound team
- Sean Foster
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, 12:56.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Official Selection — USC SCA First Look 2025, South Central Film Festival, Culver City Film Festival
- Sound team
- Aric Lopez
- Key crew
- Daeil Kim (cinematography) · Daniel Farias (editing)
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. Mandarin-language, 18:16.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Production Sound Mixer · Re-Recording Mixer
- Awards
- Official Selection — USC SCA First Look 2025
- Sound team
- Victoria Dong
- Key crew
- Miley Jie Luo (cinematography) · April Luoxi Liu (editing)
The Jobber
A naive luchador dreams of winning the championship belt like his father, but is stuck wrestling a demeaning persona — and must choose between the belt and staying true to his lucha libre roots.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Re-Recording Mixer
- Sound team
- Sean Foster (sound designer, re-recording mixer) · Ben Griimes (production mixer) · Aric Lopez (addl. production mixer) · Dalia Soto-Beltran, Bita Arefnia, Karolina Esqueda, Yining Dai (Foley)
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
Transparent Boundaries
A story told across the transparent boundaries of a Los Angeles parking structure at night. Mandarin-language.
- Sound team
- Victoria Dong (boom operator)
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor · Re-Recording Mixer
Blood in the Shadows
Bart Owenson thought his stay at the Guardian rehabilitation facility was a fresh start — until he begins waking with eerie bite marks and discovers the true horrors hidden within its walls.
- Role
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Sound team
- Su Lee (sound designer, foley artist) · Aaron Rizzo (original score)
Suddenly, It Feels Like the Last Summer
A surreal drama of memory and departure.
- Role
- Sound Designer · Sound Editor
Pastor’s Kid
When Joseph returns to his recently sold childhood home one last time to gather the remainder of his belongings, he is faced with a decade-old traumatic memory and must persevere to rediscover joy.
- Role
- Sound Designer
Goldie
A genre short from writer-director Elise Frances Garner. 12:51.
- Role
- Dialogue Editor
- Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Cinematography (Narrative), First Look 2026
- Sound team
- Sean Foster (sound designer, supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer) · Julia Byers, Yeuran Jamie Wang, Cullen Darius (production sound) · Cheyu Chao, Sarita Cronyn-Lloyd, Jake Rogers, Anna O’Donnell (boom operators)
- Key crew
- Christy Zihan Chen (cinematography) · Scott Wilson, Sarita Cronyn-Lloyd (editing)
They Know Not What They Do
Abraham, driven by a divine calling, is a man on a chilling mission. He possesses an eerie gift: the ability to hear God’s voice when nobody else can. As a driver by night, Abraham bears witness to the dark decay of human morality.
- Role
- Sound Editor
- Sound team
- Ben Griimes (re-recording mixer, sound designer, supervising sound editor) · Su Lee (sound designer) · Julio Bernardez (dialogue editor, sound editor) · Ophelia Wolf (sound editor) · Bunthoeun Real (sound recordist)
- Key crew
- Devon Johns (cinematography) · Jerry Lee, Ji Lee (editing) · Emil Sana (music)
Anywhere the Wind Blows
Having recently fled Chinese political persecution, a Hong Konger activist is trying to rebuild his life in the United States, but a visit from his ex-boyfriend rekindles unresolved feelings and threatens to derail his plans. 17:39.
- Role
- Sound Designer
- Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Producing, First Look 2024 (Dalton Zongshian Lu)
- Sound team
- J.X., A.B. (sound design) · Nga Weng Chio (original score)
- Key crew
- Elisabetta Fox Piantoni (cinematography) · Thomas Wang (editing)
Additional Credits
- The Leak · dir. Jinrun Han — Dialogue Editor
Post Workflow
- Editorial — Pro Tools, iZotope RX
- Mix stages — Avid S6, Avid D-Control
- Delivery — Stereo and 5.1 surround
- Scope — ADR, Foley, dialogue editorial, sound design, final mix
- Dialogue languages — Mandarin, Spanish, Farsi, English
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