My Dad's Truck

Created in partnership with Ford Motor Company, My Dad's Truck is an intimate documentary about Todd Leach's attempt to rediscover and restore his father's lost truck.

What begins as a restoration project becomes something more personal: a journey through grief, memory, family and healing. The film also supports awareness for No Stomach For Cancer.

The sound challenge

There are long stretches where the audience is carried almost entirely by sound, without music telling them what to feel. Keys landing on a table, a door opening, paper moving, a garage door rising, the hum of a hospital, a car travelling down the road: each small detail had to feel meaningful.

The mix needed to:

• Preserve the imperfect character of real documentary recordings
• Keep dialogue clear and emotionally present
• Use silence and near-silence deliberately
• Make everyday objects feel significant
• Build contrast between intimate moments and larger musical peaks
• Support the film's emotional rhythm without over-explaining it

The approach

The mix was developed through detailed remote reviews with John Burton, who worked from the United States while we worked from Warsaw. We used Frame.io for timecoded notes and Audiomovers LISTENTO for online sync review, so we could listen to the mix together in real time.

We reviewed levels, timing, perspective, silence, Foley and music together, then refined the mix immediately inside the session. The guiding principle was simple: make the real experience feel closer.