Known for Sound
A Foley mixer with over 15 years experience in the industry, Adam Mendez has worked on multiple Oscar-winning films, including Sam Mendes' 1917 and Gravity, for which he won the CAS award for Foley mixing, and a further CAS nomination for his work on News of the World. Able to record in many styles, he is as familiar with recording big effects to bring CGI monsters to life as he is with recording in the cinema vérité style.
Filmography
56 films, 4 shows


The Last House
2026 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A family suddenly sealed inside their home must work together to survive against dwindling resources and the ominous threat keeping them trapped.


Prisoners of Paradise
2025 · 1h 48m
country: Unknown
Love was their greatest rebellion. Set on the enchanting island of Mauritius in 1925, recently orphaned Lucy is sent to live with her charming but controlling uncle. When she defies his plans to marry her off for financial gain, she falls deeply in love with Krishna, a handsome local worker. But the world has other plans, and Lucy and Krishna must risk everything and defy the forces determined to tear them apart. Starring Ellie Bamber (William Tell, The Serpent), Rhona Mitra (Hollow Man, Red Sonja), Rupert Penry-Jones (Match Point, Spooks), Mehdi Dehbi (Messiah). Directed by Mitch Jenkins (A Million Days, The Show). Inspired by the lives of Alan and Maria Govinden and the book 'Prisoner of Paradise' written by Romesh Gunesekera.


Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · 2h 50m
country: United States
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.


Black Bag
2025 · 1h 34m
country: United States
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.


William Tell
2025 · 2h 13m
country: United Kingdom
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, desiring more land, invades neighbouring Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation. Protagonist William Tell, a formerly peaceful hunter, finds himself forced to take action as his family and homeland come under threat from the oppressive Austrian King and his ruthless warlords.


Blitz
2024 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.


Tuesday
2024 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.


Napoleon
2023 · 2h 38m
country: United States
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.


A Haunting in Venice
2023 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.


Thirteen Lives
2022 · 2h 27m
country: United Kingdom
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.


A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021 · 30m
country: United Kingdom
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.


The Last Duel
2021 · 2h 33m
country: United States
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.


Censor
2021 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.


I Care a Lot
2021 · 1h 59m
country: United Kingdom
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.


Rocks
2020 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.


The Secret Garden
2020 · 1h 40m
country: France
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.


1917
2019 · 1h 59m
country: United States
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.


The Art of Racing in the Rain
2019 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.


The Kid Who Would Be King
2019 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
Old-school magic meets the modern world when young Alex stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur. He soon unites his friends and enemies, and they become knights who join forces with the legendary wizard Merlin. Together, they must save mankind from the wicked enchantress Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors.


Seven
2018 · 12m
country: United Kingdom
SEVEN unfolds in a stunning hinterland of rearing cliffs and vast seascapes, 50 miles within the Arctic Circle. Yet this is contested territory: outsiders are threatening a centuries old way of life as they seek to exploit the area's natural resources. Yohana, a teenage girl from a remote community in the Norwegian Arctic must decide the fate of the oil worker who has killed her father. In just seven seconds, she must make a life and death decision that will not only mark her forever, but also determine the very future of her people.


The Current War
2018 · 1h 48m
country: Russia
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.


The Commuter
2018 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.


Finding Your Feet
2017 · 1h 51m
country: Italy
When her life is turned upside down upon discovering her husband's affair, Sandra Abbott seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. She begins to find her feet again after letting Bif drag her along to a community dance class.


Victoria & Abdul
2017 · 1h 52m
country: India
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.


Tulip Fever
2017 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.


American Honey
2016 · 2h 43m
country: United Kingdom
A restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless partying, risky hustles, and fleeting romances, she searches for freedom and belonging on the open road.


The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.


Peter & Wendy
2015 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Lucy is a young girl admitted to Great Ormond Street with a heart condition. Whilst there she makes a connection with JM Barrie's classic story of Peter Pan and is soon whisked away to her own Neverland


The Dresser
2015 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.


The Martian
2015 · 2h 21m
country: United States
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.


Dark Tide
2012 · 1h 53m
country: South Africa
A traumatized shark expert must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as "Shark Alley."


127 Hours
2010 · 1h 34m
country: France
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.


Burke & Hare
2010 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.