ABOUT US

Rip Roarer Productions was founded in 2017 by filmmakers Fiona Lincke and Frank J. Dion. Recruited staff is Producer and Webmaster, Gavin X. Clement. Rip Roarer Productions brings original “slice of life” films to the big screen.

Fiona Lincke
PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR

Fiona Lincke was raised in Whittier, California and helps head out Rip Roarer Productions. She is a first-generation American citizen; her father, born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, and her mother in Letchworth, England, both immigrated to America in the early 60's. They instilled their love of all things California, especially the ocean in their children by teaching them how to swim and skin dive.

Fiona holds an undergraduate degree in Film and Broadcast Journalism from California State University - Los Angeles (1993) and also has a Master's Degree in Education from California State University - Northridge (2004).

Fiona has worked both sides of the camera in film and television, along with her own written, produced and directed films together with her own production company.

Fiona and Rip Roarer Productions feels it's a privilege (and also very personal) to be able tell a story so that others may enjoy it.

FRANK J. DION
PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR/COMPOSER

Frank J. Dion was raised in Seattle, Washington and helps head out Rip Roarer Productions. Frank has directed and choreographed over 14 musicals, and wrote the book "Fingers Bleed" which teaches kids how to write songs.

Frank holds an undergraduate degree in Dance from the Cornish Institute of Fine Arts (Cornish College) (1984) as well as an undergraduate degree in Special Education: Mild to Moderate (2001). He also has a Master's Degree in Education from California State University - Northridge (2004).

Frank has worked both sides of the camera in film, together with his own written, produced, composed and directed films alongside his own production company.

Frank and Rip Roarer Productions feel you should never stop learning from life and extend such to others.

GAVIN X. CLEMENT
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/WEBMASTER

Gavin X. Clement was raised in Temecula, California and is an entrepreneurial webmaster and a producer for Rip Roarer Productions. In addition to designing webpages (namely the Rip Roarer Productions page), Gavin also designs movie posters, for which he designed the posters for THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING MORE and ON THE EDGE OF REALITY.

Gavin and Rip Roarer Productions feel life has to be taken in abundance, but at one's own pace.

Our Work

COVERT ACTIVITY (2020) -- Written & Directed by Fiona Lincke; Produced by Frank J. Dion and Fiona Lincke; Associate Produced by Gavin X. Clement and Jill Cunningham; Edited by Fiona Lincke; Music by Frank J. Dion

COVERT ACTIVITY picked up BEST DIRECTOR - COMIC SHORT at the MARINA DEL REY FILM FESTIVAL (2020); BEST SHORT NARRATIVE AUDIENCE AWARD at the SILVER STATE FILM FESTIVAL (2020); BEST COMEDY/DRAMEDY AWARD (Platinum) at the ROYAL WOLF FILM AWARDS (2020); BEST INDIE FILMMAKER at the NEW YORK FILM AWARDS (2019); BEST COMEDY (Award of Prestige) at the VEGAS MOVIE AWARDS (2020); BEST COMEDY SHORT (Silver Award) at the INDEPENDENT SHORTS AWARDS (2019); BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE at the CULVER CITY FILM FESTIVAL (2019); BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE at the GOLDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL (2020); HONORABLE MENTION at the GLOBAL SHORTS AWARDS (2019); COMEDY! HONORABLE MENTION at the TOP SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (2019)

COVERT ACTIVITY is about a character by the name of Owain McClure who is tired of living the mundane life and sets out to make a movie to honor his late mother's life as a spy. Recruiting his almost equally enthusiastic pal, Hamish, to cast aside such ordinary thoughts of a pension plan and make the ultimate spy-thriller; as he plans to shoot the film undercover at the place where they work.

THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING MORE (2017) -- Written & Directed by Fiona Lincke; Produced by Frank J. Dion and Fiona Lincke; Associate Produced by Gavin X. Clement; Edited by Fiona Lincke; Music by Frank J. Dion

THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING MORE picked up the BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT FILM AWARD at the Marina del Rey Film Festival (2018), the BEST ACTRESS (SHORT) AWARD at the Golden State Film Festival (2018), and the BEST NARRATIVE AWARD at the Culver City Film Festival (2017).

"There's Gotta Be Something More," is a "slice of life" feature which touches upon a 20th century woman with a 21st century predicament. The film deals with a lady who has to reinvent her existence. Recently widowed, she has to contend with a dwindling income and a lack of understanding/support from close family members. She is in dire need of extra income to make ends meet; so she sets out to find a job and finds it extremely difficult, as her age and lack of experience are taken into consideration at every turn. Then something totally unexpected happens on her quest; which brings to light that perhaps the world isn't as rotten as she thought.

ON THE EDGE OF REALITY (2018) -- Written & Directed by Frank J. Dion; Produced by Fiona Lincke and Frank J. Dion; Associate Produced by Gavin X. Clement; Edited by Frank J. Dion; Music by Frank J. Dion

ON THE EDGE OF REALITY picked up BEST FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR AWARD (Platinum); BEST NARRATIVE AWARD (Gold); BEST INDIE SHORT AWARD (Gold); and BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE AWARD (Silver) at the INDEPENDENT SHORTS AWARDS (2018).

ON THE EDGE OF REALITY also picked up BEST INDIE FILMMAKER at the LOS ANGELES FILM AWARDS (2019); BEST NARRATIVE FILM (Honorable Mention) at the NEW YORK FILM AWARDS (2019); BEST ENSEMBLE CAST-SHORT at the CULVER CITY FILM FESTIVAL (2018); and AWARD OF MERIT at the ACCOLADE GLOBAL FILM COMPETITION (2019).

On the Edge of Reality" is a story of a physical therapist who overcomes addiction (self-medicating himself with a vapid supply of unused pills left by his senior homebound, attention-starved patients). This divorced, relatively "good-guy" can't seem to see past his nose a lot of the time, and actually starts to see the ghost of his ex-wife popping in and out of his bathroom mirror. Clueless, freaked out and thinking he's the next to die, he helplessly watches as his patients drop off one at a time on a daily basis. He starts to find the strange light he has always been lacking and a new gusto for life, with the help of his funny old dad; who knows more than his son thought he did.

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