and moderator Larry Scherer - State & Broad.

This podcast was recorded thanks to the staff at the Dolby 88 screening room, and was produced by Alchemy Post Sound and the PNYA.

PART 7. THE END/ REBIRTH

In 2012, Sound One, possibly the most successful post-production facility in New York City’s history, closed its doors after 44 years of business. What caused the demise of Sound One is a point of contention between the clients, former owners, founders and staff, who hold multiple theories about why it failed financially. Some blame a distant holding company in Denver who some say were out of touch with the needs of the local community in New york and undermined the business practices which required creative and financial flexibility to maintain its base of both established and up and coming filmmakers. Others cite a long process of chipping away at the character of Sound One over a period of time during which the company was bought and sold five times to various entities.

Here former staff and clients explain in their words, how the end of Sound one came to be and how in the wake of its undeniable force created new pools of talent and multiple post-production facilities in New York, all of them strengthened by the work ethic and familial bonds of developed at Sound One.

The Sound One Era: 1968-2012 is a multi-part series for Frame By Frame a podcast co-presented by Motion Picture Editors Guild and Post New York Alliance.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

 

FxF008: The Sound one era 1968-2012

Part 5: The Foley Artist

 

Elisha Birnbaum, co-founder of Sound One, is considered one of the best NY foley artists of his generation. His stage looked like a suburban garage or basement or attic with various surfaces on the floor and, shelves filled with props used to create sounds. You would often meet Elisha walking around the hallways of Sound One in cut off jean shorts, and womens high heels,  which he wore when foleying the sound of womens footsteps. Here, staff and clients retell stories of working with Elisha and others at Sound One in recognizing the creative genius behind Elisha’s work and the role of the foley artist.

From 1968 to 2012, Sound One grew from a solo operation to becoming the most successful post-production sound and editing facility on the East Coast. At its apex, Sound One inhabited five floors of the famed Brill Building housed 150 edit suites and over 300 clients and staff at its apex and commanded 85% of post-production business in New York. As its reputation grew, it became the go to post-production home for such filmmakers as Sidney Lumet, Arthur Penn, George Roy Hill, Jonathan Demme, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese and through its constant support of independents, helped launch the careers of  filmmakers like the Alan Pakula, Spike Lee, The Coen Brothers, M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Moore, Ken Burns and countless post-production professionals and helped post-produce some of cinemas most influential works.

The Sound One Era: 1968-2012 is a multi-part series for Frame By Frame a podcast co-presented by Motion Picture Editors Guild and Post New York Alliance.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

 

FXF008: THE SOUND ONE ERA 1968-2012

PART 3: Tribute to Bill Nisselson and Sybil Brown

Bill Nisselson was often described as the heart of Sound One. As managing Director from 1979-2001, Bill, alongside co-founder Elisha Birnbaum, set the tone of interaction, organized the deals and orchestrated the cross-traffic of post-production work between staff and clients which at its apex commanded 6 floors in the Brill Building and took in over 85% of the post-production film business in New York.

Not far from Bill’s office Sybil Brown, the receptionist from 1985-2005, offered a warm welcome, fresh flowers and the uncanny ability to locate people by phone in crucial moments and also stood as essential to the heartbeat of the Sound One experience. 

In this episode, staff and clients remember their interactions with Bill Nisselson, and Sybil Brown and share their stories about how both Bill and Sybil played a dominant role not only in shaping the working environment of  Sound One, but also in shaping peoples lives.

The Sound One Era: 1968-2012 is a multi-part series for Frame By Frame a podcast co-presented by Motion Picture Editors Guild and Post New York Alliance.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

FXF006: Films of Jim Jarmusch- Jay Rabinowitz, Chic Ciccolini, Dominick Tavella

In the first episode of Frame By Frame Season 2, picture editor, Jay Rabinowitz, sound editor, Chic Ciccolini  and re-recording mixer, Dominick Tavella talk about their craft and process in collaborating with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on his films from the 1980’s and 90’s Coffee and Cigarettes, Night On Earth, and Ghost Dog.  

 Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

Frame By Frame, Episode 004: Maurice Schell, Peter Frank, Lee Dichter on Sidney Lumet's The Verdict

Sound editor, Maurice Schell  (Gimme Shelter, Serpico, The Missouri Breaks,  Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz, Melvin and Howard, Reds, Scarface) , re-recording mixer, Lee Dichter, (Grey Gardens, Sophie’s Choice, Hannah and Her Sisters, Miller’s Crossing, The Civil War) and picture editor Peter Frank, (The Verdict, Cadillac Records, Dirty Dancing) share stories about coming up in the 1960's 70's and 80's in the New York film industry and their collaboration on Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict.

 

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

The Second seminar in a series about the Audio Post Production process, the PNYA Education Committee in tandem with Soundtrack NY present Mixing 101: A Step by Step Guide Into the World of Sound Mixing.


This event took place at 7pm on September 29th at Soundtrack FT, 128 West 22nd St. 

The recording takes you step by step through the process of sound mixing. Feature films, television series, and independent projects will all be covered in detail followed by a live in­-studio walkthrough. Leading members of the New York audio community will share their expertise in each of these fields.

Participants include Tom Fleischman ReRecording Sound Mixer, Bob Chefalas Re­recording Sound Mixer, Dan Brennan Re­Recording Sound Mixer, Jacob Ribicoff Supervising Sound Editor, Louis Bertini Supervising Sound Editor, Craig Kyllonen Supervising Sound Editor.

Frame by Frame 001- Reds- Craig McKay & Tom Fleischmann.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories with the people that continue to define New York as an essential capital of the global film industry.

Picture editor, Craig McKay and Re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman talk about early influences getting started in the New York film industry of the 1960’s and 70’s as well as their work on the film by Warren Beatty, Reds.                     

Hosted by Isabel Sadurni.                         

Produced by Isabel Sadurni and Ben Baker.      

 

NYWIFT & the Post New York Alliance podcast are proud to present:

 

Making the Cut: Editors Talk Collaborations and Career

Editing is such a fluid experience. You never know what you will need for the story or what the working relationship with the director is going to be like. Each situation is different. 

Forging a career as an editor can be just as varied. Before digital technology and software became as accessible as they are today, you came up the ranks from apprentice, assistant, to one day becoming an editor. Now you could take on a low-budget film, working as your own assistant and editor, or perhaps collaborate with an established editor and come on as a co-editor. Always, the major skill is storytelling & building relationships. It’s about living your life and understanding that the material for editorial decisions can come from anywhere, and everything you experience. 

Join this panel of talented women editors/filmmakers as they share their journey to the edit chair, and explore the collaborations they’ve built along the way. 


Panelists

R. A. Fedde is an editor and producer, whose film and television work has covered a wide range, from two past presidents to paparazzi on the run. Her editing credits include 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America: Antietam, winner of a 2006 Emmy Award for Best Non-Fiction Series; $ellebrity, which premiered at South by Southwest in 2012; Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde, which Fedde edited and co-produced, premiered at Slamdance 2013; The Last One, won the Best Social Issues Documentary Award at the 2014 Atlanta Docufest and aired on Showtime in December 2014; and Once and for All, which closed the DocNYC 2015 with a sold-out house. Her editing on Frontlne's Growing Up Online garnered another nomination for a 2009 Emmy. In 2004, Fedde won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award for her work as editor on Pure Magic: The Mother Daughter Bond. Currently she is working on a feature-length PBS project on WWI and a short documentary project of her own about Hindu god lithographs.

Carla Gutierrez is an editor based in New York City. She edited the Oscar nominated film La Carona for HBO and the Emmy-nominated documentary Reportero, which was broadcast on POV. She also edited Kingdom of Shadows that premiered at SXSW and opened theatrically in Mexico. Her latest work, When Two Worlds Collide will have its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival as part of the world documentary competition. Gutierrez’s other editing credits include: Wonder Women!, Las Marthas, Tales of the Waria, She Is The Matador, Surviving Hitler: A Love Story, and Iraq For Sale. She has been a creative adviser for the Sundance Edit Lab, and a mentor for Firelight Producers’ Lab.

Geeta Gandbhir's honors include an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards. Most recently, a feature documentary she produced with Perri Peltz and directed with Academy Award winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, A Journey of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. She is currently co-directing and co-producing a Conversation series on race with The New York Times Op-Docs. She co-directed and edited the film Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro Sr. with Perri Peltz for HBO. Additional notable works as an editor include, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You, When the Levees Broke … A Requiem in Four Acts, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Music by Prudence, Budrus, If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, and God is the Bigger Elvis.

Sheila Shirazi's feature editor credits include the forthcoming Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, which will premiere on HBO later this year, and Shola Lynch's Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. She has been an assistant editor for the Academy Award-winning Inside Job, the groundbreaking PBS series, Women, War & Peace, and the Sundance Documentary Edit Lab. She produced and wrote the film Arusi Persian Wedding, which won an ITVS Open Call finishing grant and was broadcast on PBS' Independent Lensseries. Shirazi also enjoys the creative (and financial rewards) of editing short-form content for ad agencies, NGO's and corporate clients. 

Cheree Dillon (Moderator) is an independent film/tv editor based in New York City. Most recently she co-edited Death by Design, a feature documentary collaboration from Ambrica Productions and Impact Partners. Her first feature doc, Off and Running, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was broadcast on PBS’s P.O.V. series, and nominated for an Emmy. Cheree’s other feature doc credits include the broadcast version of The Homestretch for PBS’s Independent Lens 2015 series, Sense The Wind, Sons of Ben, Surviving Amina, and Song of Hannah, along with cutting long format programs for Discovery, NBC Sports, and The Science Channel. She has also edited several award-winning short docs including Southmost USA, An Imaginary Thing, and Article of Faith. Dillon is a member of the NYWIFT documentary committee and has produced several panels focused on interactive filmmaking, independent film distribution and social media/marketing.

 

  

 

 

Produced by Cheree Dillon

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Introduction to Audio Post: ADR

Thursday September 3rd, 2015 @ 7pm 

Soundtrack NY @ 936 Broadway, 4th Floor

The first in a series about the Audio Post Production process, the PNYA Education Committee in tandem with Soundtrack NY, as well as Dann Fink and Bruce Winant, are hosting ADR 101: An Introduction to the Audio Post World.

The seminar will take place at 7 pm on September 3rd, 2015 at Soundtrack NY, 936 Broadway at 22nd Street, 4th Floor. Drinks and snacks will be available starting at 6:30pm.

The evening will shed light on the individual components of the ADR process. Spotting, scheduling, Principal ADR, Group ADR and Foley will all be covered in detail followed by a live in­-studio walkthrough. Leading members of the New York audio community will share their expertise in each of these fields.

Scheduled participants include Craig Kyllonen, Supervising Sound Editor; Mark DeSimone ADR Mixer; Jacob Ribicoff ,Supervising Sound Editor;Maegan Hayward, COO Soundtrack New York; Dann Fink, Loop Group Supervisor; Alex Carpenter, Foley Artist; and Justine Baker, ADR Recordist.

Seating in the studio for this event is limited, so please RSVP to seminars@postnewyork.org. to reserve your place!

The workshop is free for members ­- $10 for non members.

 

 

Transitioning from Docs to Drama

Join us for a podcast with host Isabel Sadurni and New York’s top Editors, about how they consistently and successfully bridge the worlds of non-fictional to scripted editorial. Followed by Q&A.

PANELISTS:

ALLYSON C. JOHNSON

(The Namesake, Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding )

SAM POLLARD

(If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise, 4 Little Girls, Clockers)

TIM SQUYRES

(Life of Pi, The Armstrong Lie, Syriana)

CRAIG McKAY

(Sin Nombre,Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia)

ALAN OXMAN

(Control Room, Happiness, Welcome To The Dollhouse )

 

Many established narrative editors have turned their hand todocumentaries, while others have worked in the opposite direction working as documentarians who crossover intonarrative territory. Whether working within fictional or non-fictional worlds -- we as visual storytellers are instinctively drawn to elements common to both genres, yet thefilmmaking communities often exist separately. What are the strengths, strategies and strokes of luckrequired to bridge the two worlds successfully?

BIOS

ALLYSON C. JOHNSON’sFeature Film work includes: Mira Nair’sAmelia,The Namesake, Vanity Fairand MonsoonWedding which received the Golden Lion for Best Film at the2001 Venice Film. Her television work includes NBC’sS mashand The Slap, The Wire, Quanticoand Marco PoloforNetflix. She is presently editing Baz Luhrmann’s series TheGet Down for Netflix. Johnson received an Emmy Nominationediting the documentaryT he Who’s Tommy: The AmazingJourney. Other rockumentaries include Up From theUnderground (Quincy Jones),S ay It Loud(VH-1) and herTriptych short film Kick Out the Jamsappeared at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. She hasalso collaborated with such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Griffin Dunne and Bill Moyers.

SAM POLLARDis an Emmy and Peabody Award winning feature film and television video editor, and documentaryproducer/director whose work spans almost thirty years. He recently completed as Producer/Director a 90-minutedocumentary titled August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Standfor the PBS series American Masters. His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 forHenry Hampton's Blackside production Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroadsfor which he received a Peabody Award. Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard editeda number of Spike Lee's films: Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozledand co-produced a number of documentary productions for Spike Lee PresentsM ike Tyson, Four Little Girls, When The Levees Broke.

TIM SQUYRESh as edited several films fordirector Ang Lee; Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet ,EatDrinkManWoman, Sense a nd Sensibility,T he Ice Storm,Ri de with the Devil, The Hulk, andCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The latter earned Mr. Squyres Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Hong Kong Film Award, and [American Cinema Editors (ACE)] Eddie Award nominations, as well as the Golden Horse Award (Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscar).He was an Eddie Award nominee for his workonRobertAltman'sAcademyAward-winning, GosfordPark ,whichalsoearnedMr.Squyresan American Film Institute (AFI) Award nomination.His other feature credits as editor include Stephen Gaghan's S yriana , starring Academy Award winner George Clooney; Paul Auster's L ulu on the Bridge and TheInnerLifeofMartinFrost; andGeorgeButler'sdocumentary G oingUpriver:TheLongWarof John Kerry . He has also edited television documentaries for Bill Moyers W hat Can We Do About Violence? a nd A ddiction: Close to Home ) fo r Michael Moore, ESPN, and VH1 .

CRAIG McKAY i s an award-winning feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Directing credits include Emmy-Award-winning Bubbe Meises,Bubbe Stories for PBS and HBO’ s T he Red Shoes written by Jo hn Guare. Documentary credits include Br avo’s H aiti: Dreams of Democracy, A cadem y - Award - nominated M andela , and PBS’s a ward - winning W itness: Voices from the  Holocaust. Awards in editing include an Emmy for the NBC mini-series Holocaust , as well as two Academy Award nominations for R eds and T he Silence of the Lambs. Other editing highlights include Copland, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Something Wild, Melvin and Howard and many others. McKay was also an Executive Producer on the award-winning feature-length documentary A Normal Life.

ALAN OXMAN is a film editor and producer who has worked on a variety of narrative and documentary films. As a producer Alan's recent credits include A Matter of Taste which screened on HBO and was nominated for an Emmy Award and P age One: Inside the New York Times which was distributed by Magnolia Films and was also nominated for an Emmy Award. He was a producer on Edet Belzberg’s T he Recruiter , which won the Peabody Awar d, as well as on C hildren Underground which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Alan recently served as post-production supervisor on Inside Job (Academy Award for Best Documentary,2011)andproduceron H otCoffee (Sundance2011,HBOSummerDocSeries).Hewas the co- producer and supervising editor of the Al-Jazeera documentary C ontrol Room (Grand Jury Prize, Full Frame Film Festival). His editing credits include W elcome to the Dollhouse (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival), H appiness ( International Critic’s Award, Cannes Film Festival) and Storytelling (Cannes Film Festival), all for director Todd Solondz. He was a consulting editor on the Oscar- nominated N oEndinSight, which also won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.Alan co-edited   U nzipped (Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival), which won the A.C.E. Award for Best Documentary Editing. He won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Documentary Editing on the PBS series C ity Life .