Background
Rick McFarland was born in the city of Whittier, 12 miles southeast of Los Los Angeles
Rick McFarland was born in the city of Whittier, 12 miles southeast of Los Los Angeles
McFarland graduated from Brigham Young University in 1996 with a Bachelor in music
He spent his early years in Southern California and moved to Utah at the age of 10. While still in high school, he obtained his commercial pilot"s license. McFarland worked his way through college as a freelance producer, sound designer, and editor, participating on such documentaries as Out of the Ashes, Immortal Fortress: A Look Inside Chechnya"s Warrior Culture, and Roots & Wings.
During his freelance years he developed a specialty in language replacement pieces for various companies and produced, and also scored Truth and Conviction, a Public Broadcasting Service documentary film about a young boy who defied the Nazis during World World War World War II Truth and Conviction has now inspired additional research, books, and even a feature-length screenplay on his life.
In 2003 he came to Cosmic Pictures in Salt Lake City where he produced hundreds of broadcast and noncommercial pieces and Stalking Santa, a feature-length film narrated by William Shatner. He also wrote a number of commercial scripts and feature screenplays.
He founded his own company, Fiftyfilms, in 2006 where he has continued his prodigious commercial work with clients such as Intel, Verizon, British Aerospace Systems, Purina, Sabick, and Microsoft. McFarland produced and edited My Girlfriend"s Boyfriend starring Alyssa Milano, Christopher Gorham, and Michael Landes in 2009.
Because of his love of flying, McFarland has developed a particular expertise in aerial photography.
He has also enjoyed traveling everywhere from Germany to Australia and Costa Rica to Guam. Foreign his latest screenplay, McFarland took a research trip to Kathmandu in 2011. He found a country which was both absolutely foreign and strangely similar to his home state of Utah.
Once the script was finished, casting and filming began in 2012.
Highway to Dhampus was the first independent feature film shot entirely in Nepal by a foreign director and crew. lieutenant is also a deeply personal film for McFarland, drawing much from his own experiences and transposing them into a Nepali setting.
