Biography

Rupert is the Creative Director of Atlantic Screen Music, and supervision agency, Redfive, where he is also co-founder. Ru started his career in music publishing in 1998, initiating the synchronisation departments at Music Copyright Solutions, and latterly Kingstreet Media. Subsequently, as a freelance music supervisor, Ru worked on various global advertising campaigns with brands including Marks & Spencer, Nike, as well as the Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

After four years as a freelance music supervisor, in 2009 he joined Imagem (now Concord) as Head of Film. During his time at Imagem, he represented the Rodgers & Hammerstein and Boosey & Hawkes’ catalogues, as well as numerous artists and bands on the contemporary roster including Daft Punk, Mark Ronson, Pink Floyd, Vampire Weekend, Genesis, and The Stone Roses. During his five-year tenure, Rupert worked with brands such as Reebok, Skoda, Next, Iceland, Hyundai, and Tesco amongst others, and several successful US, UK and European-based films. He joined Metropolis Group in 2014 as Creative Director and founded the publishing division (Metropolis Music Publishing), quickly securing an impressive repertoire of artists, bands and composers, racking up multiple synchronisation placements and campaigns. Having also founded and set up Metropolis Music Supervision, in 2016 he won both Best TV Advert and Overall Sync of the Year a music supervisor at the MusicWeek Sync Awards.

Since co-founding music supervision agency Redfive, Ru's film and TV projects include Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Oscar-nominated projects films such as The Wife, The Trip and McQueen, also including 2021 films such as Worth and Mothering Sunday, where he has both supervised the commercial music and coordinated the scores. 2021/22 credits include the new Roland Emmerich space epic Moonfall, and Number Nine Film's adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel, Living, starring Bill Nighy.

Ru is co-founder and senior board member of The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors.

CV

SELECTED CREDITS

FILM

Fackham Hall (2025)
Production Company: Elysian Film Group
Producers: Mila Cottray, Danny Perkins, Kris Thykier
Director: Jim O'Hanlon

Low Rider (2025)
Production Company: Boudica Entertainment
Producers: Rebecca Long, Stella Nwimo
Director: Campbell X

Tin Soldier (2025)
Production Company: Unified Pictures
Producers: Steven Chasman, Brad Feinstein, Jess Fuerst, Brad Furman
Director: Brad Furman

Words of War (2025)
Production Company: Good Films Collective
Producers: Paul Brennan, Kia Jam, Mark Maxey, Miriam Segal
Director: James Strong

Locked (2025)
Production Company: north.five.six
Producers: Zainab Azizi, Petr Jákl, Ara Keshishian, Sean Patrick O'Reilly, Sam Raimi
Director: David Yarovesky

Last Breath (2025)
Production Company: Focus Features
Producers: David Brooks, Paul Brooks, Norman Golightly, Stewart Le Marechal
Director: Alex Parkinson

The Apprentice (2024) - Executive Music Producer
Production Company: Scythia Films
Producers: Ali Abbasi, Daniel Bekerman, Julianne Forde, Jacob Jarek
Director: Ali Abbasi

The Surfer (2024)
Production Company: Lionsgate
Producers: Nicolas Cage, Brunella Cocchiglia, Robert Connolly, Leonora Darby
Director: Lorcan Finnegan

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Production Company: Lionsgate
Producers:Ivan Atkinson, Jerry Bruckheimer, John Friedberg, Chad Oman, Guy Ritchie
Director: Guy Ritchie

The Assessment (2024)
Production Company: Augenschein Filmproduktion
Producers: Julie Goldstein, Grant S. Johnson, Elizabeth Karlsen, Jonas Katzenstein
Director: Fleur Fortune

The Salt Path (2024)
Production Company: BBC Film
Producers: Peter Hampden, Kristin Irving, Elizabeth Karlsen, Beatriz Levin
Director: Marianne Elliott

Freud’s Last Session (2024)
Production Company: Sony Pictures
Producers: Matt Brown, Alan Greisman, Hannah Leader, Tristan Lynch
Director: Tilman Singer

Seize Them! (2024)
Production Company: DJ Films
Producers: Damian Jones, Matthew James Wilkinson
Director: Curtis Vowell

Cuckoo (2024)
Production Company: Fiction Park / Neon
Producers: Thor Bradwell, Markus Halberschmidt, Ken Kao, Ben Rimmer
Director: Tilman Singer

Absolution (2024)
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Producers: Michael Besman, Roger Birnbaum, Eric Gold, Warren Goz, Thiago Barbosa Nogueira
Director: Hans Petter Moland

Elevation (2024)
Production Company: Lyrical Media
Producers: Alex Black, Brad Fuller, John Glenn, Anthony Mackie
Director: George Nolfi

Sleeping Dogs (2024)
Production Company: Nickel City Pictures
Producers: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, Mark Fasano, Deborah Glover
Director: Adam Cooper

The Ghost Trap
(2024)
Production Company: Filmtrax
Producers: Sam Brittan, Candace Cason, Peter A Couture II, Greer Grammer
Director: James Khanlarian

We Bury the Dead (2024)
Production Company: The Penguin Empire / Vertical Entertainment / Neon
Producers: Ross M. Dinerstein, Mark Fasano, Joshua Harris, Kelvin Munro, Grant Sputore
Director: Zach Hilditch

Arcadian (2024)
Production Company: Aperture Media Partners
Producers: Nicolas Cage, Arianne Fraser, Mike Nilon, Delphine Perrier
Director: Benjamin Brewer

Canary Black (2024)
Production Company: Anton / Amazon
Producers: Jeff Elliott, Marina Grasic, Carsten Lorenz, Sébastien Raybaud
Director: Pierre Morel

Shell (2024)
Production Company: Blank Tape
Producers: Fred Berger, Norman Golightly, Lindsey McManus, Max Minghella
Director: Max Minghella

Fast Charlie (2023)
Production Company: Ashland Hill Media Finance / Thomasville Pictures
Producers: Daniel Grodnik, Jeff Holland, Brent C. Johnson, Ryan Donnell Smith, Mitchell Welch
Director: Phillip Noyce

The Critic (2023)
Production Company: BKStudios
Producers: David Gilbery, Bill Kenwright, Jolyon Symonds
Director: Anand Tucker

Mafia Mamma (2023)
Production Company: Bleecker Street Media
Producers: Toni Collette, Christopher Simon, Amanda Sthers
Director: Catherine Hardwicke

To Catch a Killer (2023)
Production Company: FilmNation Entertainment
Producers: Ezequiel Capaldo, Stuart Manashil, Eugenia Molina, Aaron Ryder
Director: Damián Szifron

Moonfall
(2022)
Production Company: Centropolis / Lionsgate
Producers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Director: Roland Emmerich

Living (2022)
Production Company: Film4 / Sony
Producers: Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
Director: Oliver Hermanus

Churchill (2017)
Production Company: Salon Pictures
Producers: Claudia Bluemhuber, Nick Taussig, Piers Tempest, Paul Van Carter
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky


TV

Long Way Home (2025)
Production Company: Long Way Round / Apple TV+
Creators: David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin, Ewan McGregor

Sprint: The World's Fastest Humans (2024)
Production Company: Box to Box Films / Netflix
Producers: Rory Cole, Richard Mejeh

Boat Story (2023)
Production Company: Two Brothers Pictures / Amazon
Creators: Harry Williams, Jack Williams

Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn (2023)
Production Company: Apple TV+
Director: James Jones

Break Point (2023)
Production Company: Box to Box Films / Netflix
Producers: Kari Lia, Olivia Strong, Rory Cole

Long Way Up (2020)
Production Company: Big Earth / Apple TV+
Producers: David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin, Ewan McGregor

The Trip (2020)
Production Company: Revolution Films
Producers: Andrew Eaton, Melissa Parmenter

Hapless (2020)
Production Company: Creativity Capital / Peacock
Director/Writer: Gary Sinyor