Avi Laniado

Movies

Silent Partner
Sound Engineer
An accomplished Black trial attorney successfully defends a white woman charged with murder. Then he and his wife attend a dinner party, which brings promise of promotion to partner.
Forget Me Not
Sound Engineer
As 3-year-old Emilio is ready to start school, his family finds itself cornered in the United States' most segregated education system - New York City public schools. Fighting for their son's right to an inclusive education - where Emilio and other children with disabilities would be taught alongside their classmates without disabilities - film director Olivier and his wife Hilda investigate the personal stories of students and their parents in the US. With children with disabilities worldwide less likely to attend school, these experiences expose just a handful of the widespread injustices currently taking place in the educational system and beyond for kids with disabilities. Forget Me Not reveals a path to a more inclusive society that starts with welcoming diversity in the classroom.
High Flying Bird
Sound Engineer
During an NBA lockout, a sports agent, Ray Burke, presents his rookie client, Erick Scott, with an intriguing and controversial business opportunity.
Monsters and Men
Sound Engineer
After capturing an illegal act of police violence on his cellphone, a Brooklyn street hustler sets off a series of events that alter the lives of a local police officer and a star high-school athlete.
Puzzle
Sound Engineer
After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has found something she really enjoys doing: solving puzzles.
The First Purge
Sound Engineer
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
Unsane
Sound Engineer
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
I, Tonya
Sound Engineer
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Wonder Wheel
Sound Engineer
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
Wonderstruck
Sound Engineer
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Landline
Sound Engineer
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
The Wall
Sound Engineer
An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
Café Society
Sound Engineer
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Irrational Man
Sound Engineer
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
The Butler
Sound Engineer
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
The Village
Mix Technician
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.