Biography

Lori began her love of sound while growing up in a musical household. She would listen to Della Reese, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell and Peter Frampton after school and dreamed of being a successful musician one day. She attended San Francisco State University and majored in Broadcasting and board operated for the Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley. She moonlighted as a sound designer in various theaters in San Francisco, including Theater Rhino. At Mobius Music she interned occasionally for the Windham Hill label. Lori also did a brief stint at Zoetrope as an ADR Assistant. In 1989 Big Zig Video, a camera/sound rental house, employed her and she began recording sound over the shoulder for documentary, corporate and ENG clients earning her over 100 hundred BBC credits. She found herself yearning to get involved with recording sound on set for movies and paid her dues in independent 'low to no pay' projects on her mono Nagra. Her father, David, was a union carpenter and she was inspired to follow suit and joined IATSE Local 16 in San Francisco as a permit worker and then joined IATSE 695 in Los Angeles as a Production Sound Mixer in 2000. While in San Francisco she production mixed Amistead Maupin's 'Further Tales Of The City' and the underground film 'Groove', as well as recorded 2nd Unit for 'Serendipity' and 'Bedazzled' to name a few. Once in Los Angeles she worked with David Fincher, Marc Webb and with David Ayer on some of their projects. She was nominated for a MPSE award for '500 Days of Summer' and recorded sound on the 3D remake of 'Fright Night' with Colin Farrell and 'A Single Man' with Colin Firth as well as many others. She recently wrapped on CBS's 'Diary Of A Future President' TV series, which heralded nods as a unique 'boom only' show during Covid. In 2018, Lori founded International Women Working in Film, an initiative to help women advance economically in Film & TV. She appears in the Focal Press Book 'Women In Audio' by Leslie Gaston-Bird and the Hollywood Reporter. She was a member of the Cinema Audio Society CAS since 2000. In 2021 she was granted a UK Global Talent Visa and in 2023 she earned a British Independent Film Award Nomination for The End We Start From staring Jodie Comer.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Became a member of the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) in 2003.

IATSE 695 Member IATSE 16 Permit.

Founder-International Women Working In Film (2018).

UK Global Talent Visa.

"I want to take this opportunity to mention production sound. We had an incredible team: Lori Dovi, the production sound mixer, and Etina Hom, the boom operator. They were just adament about getting good sound. I mean, they've done a lot of high-production and low-production budgets, and they just said our our goal is zero looping, zero dialogue-replacement. In this film we had not one loop line which I'm very proud of, which every day I thank Lori and Etina for that." - Greg Harrison, director of Groove (2000), on the DVD commentary.