AmPost-production is by nature entrepreneurial. The majority of our community is made up of freelancers and employees of small businesses who work on productions that are themselves small corporations that close once the show or film is distributed. Hear from these companies about how they got started and found success. Part II. To watch part I: CLICK HERE

Panelists:

Founded in 2019, Harriet and Rosen ADR (HR Casting) is an entertainment company headquartered in NYC that brings an innovative and exciting perspective to ADR (Audio Dialogue Replacement), Loop Group, and Voice Casting.

HR Casting provides the voice acting services productions need to help a project reach its full potential. We work with top agents in the industry and have a diverse talent base of authentic, multifaceted, and bilingual actors that help bring any project to life through sound.

HR Casting founders, Sienna Jeffries and Cherelle Cargill are SAG/AFTRA actresses with approximately 20+ years of acting experience in commercials, TV & Film, theater, and ADR. Below are some of the projects that Cherelle and Sienna have been featured in:
ADR - Ocean’s Eight, Girl’s Trip, HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Blue Bloods, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Sienna and Cherelle’s Loop Group experiences as actresses prompted them to establish their own company to contribute their considerable talents and expertise to the voiceover industry. HR Casting hires talent that can add the necessary sound texture to a project to help an audience visualize each scene as if they were there. If we see it, we should hear it too. We strive to find talent that most closely portrays a visual. We’re big on going after the “real thing” with “real people”.
Some of the Film/TV productions that HR Casting recently worked on include: Timmy Failure, Project Power, The Glorias, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Judas and The Black Messiah, and Mosquito Coast Season 1.
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Fun fact about Sienna: Valedictorian of her graduating college class, she got her acting start as a recurring character on Sesame Street: Elmo’s World when she was 6 years old!
Fun fact about Cherelle: She’s an NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate, award-winning producer, devoted wife, and mom of three.

Award-winning sound designer, mixer, and supervising sound editor, Bob Pomann, has a long history of over 40 years in the audio post-production business. Throughout his career, he’s been creating innovative sound design and directing talent for voice records, loop groups, and ADR. His vast range of experience includes work with animation, feature films, television, radio and TV commercials, videogames, and virtual reality mediums.

With young aspirations to be a film director, he discovered the power of telling stories through sound. Early jobs doing sound design for movie trailers and radio spots led to sound design for the original SNL shorts and radio shows for National Lampoon. After five years at various facilities, Bob launched Pomann Sound at 2 West 46th Street in 1984, growing the company into one of NY’s leading audio facilities servicing filmmakers, producers, and ad agencies.

Pomann Sound has recorded, mixed, and sound designed the Emmy award-winning shows “Doug”, “Little Einsteins” and “Little Bill.”

Other films and tv credits include “Blind”- Amazon, “An Imperfect Murder”-Netflix, “Walking Dead”- AMC, “ Madame Secretary”- CBS, ”Life After Lock Up- WE tv, “90 Day Fiancé”- TLC, and ”Star Wars The Old Republic” videogames. In all these projects, his focus on sonic story-telling, finding innovative creative and technical solutions, and collaboration have distinguished his career.

In the last year during the pandemic, Pomann Sound did over 100 unscripted tv episodes and over 150 commercials, documentaries, and branded films.
They also recorded over 200 different actors at home remotely.
Pomann Sound is currently doing most of Warner Brothers Animation’s remote records. Bob’s most recent upcoming project is the sound supervisor for an animated series for Apple in Sept which Pomann sound is designing and Post Works is mixing.

Moderator:

Chris Peterson, Board Secretary / Executive Board Member, PNYA and Executive Producer
Chris Peterson has worked as an Executive Producer and media technologist at post-production facilities, VFX shops, sound/music houses, and systems integrators. His credits include Hereditary, Absentia (Sony/Amazon), Women of Troy (HBO), and Roger Waters’ concert tours and films. Prior to that, he was a producer/videographer/editor for the Howard Stern Show and on location for cable series in Brazil, Argentina, Trinidad, and around the United States. He is the host of the PNYA’s popular webinar series “Post Break,” which has been providing timely, post-Covid information and community for the post-production industry since April of 2020.

This week’s post break explored the relationship between the editor and their assistant, how they work together, and how each role supports the other. In honor of Women’s History Month, hear from two female editor and assistant editor teams about their work together. The panel featured Agnès Challe-Grandits and her assistant, Tracy Nayer, and Shelby Siegel, and her assistant, Jiye Kim.

Panelists:

Agnes Grandits, Editor
Agnès Grandits is a film and television editor with decades of experience in the US film industry working with legendary writers, directors, and performers on award-winning box office hits and groundbreaking television.

Last December, Agnès edited the pilot for "Single Drunk Female," a half-hour comedy for Freeform that was just picked up for series, based on Simone Finch’s authentic stories, executive produced by Girls’ Jenni Konner and Good Girls’ Phil Traill, with Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland directing the pilot.

As a television editor, Agnès has worked primarily on both half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas with credits on P. Valley and SweetBitter for STARZ, Divorce for HBO, Odd Mom Out for Bravo, and The Breaks for VH1. She has worked for Showtime onThe Affair and Nurse Jackie. In addition, she edited The Jim Gaffigan Show for TV Land, Gracepoint for Fox, an episode on the final season of Bored to Death for HBO, and 100 Centre Street, directed by Sydney Lumet for A&E. For HBO, she also worked on Sex and the City and The Wire.

Originally starting as a film apprentice and working her way up through assistant to editor, Agnès worked for directors such as Nora Ephron on Sleepless in Seattle (TriStar Pictures), Norman René on Prelude to a Kiss, Jerry Zucker on Ghost (Paramount), Alan Pakula on Pelican Brief (20th Century Fox), Robert Altman on Ready to Wear, Tim Robbins on Dead Man Walking and John Turturro on Romance and Cigarettes (United Artists).

Fully binational and bicultural, Agnès is a native of Lyon, France. On her frequent visits home, she lectures and gives Master Classes at La Cinéfabrique, a highly selective, innovative state-run film school that focuses on bringing inclusive, international voices into the industry.

Agnès lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters and husband, the painter Sean Grandits.

Tracy Nayer, Assistant Editor Tracy Nayer has been working as an Assistant Editor for over ten years. She started her career working in finishing for a large post facility. She now works predominately on union scripted television. She’s been assisting Agnès Grandits for five years.

JiYe Kim, Assistant Editor JiYe Kim began her career in experimental films, working with Anita Thacher and Barbara Hammer. She started assistant work on Alphago (2017). Her most recent editorial credits include High Maintenance, The Deuce, Her Smell, and Share.

Shelby Siegel, Editor

Shelby Siegel is an Emmy award-winning film and television editor that has been working in New York for over twenty years. She began her career with some of the industry’s top directors: Paul Haggis (In the Valley of Elah), Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson’s War), and Ang Lee on his Oscar-winning films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Brokeback Mountain. In addition, Shelby worked on the critically acclaimed series The Wire.

After The Wire, she worked as an editor on Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans (DVD) and All Good Things, Jonathan Caouette‘s Tarnation, Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica, and Urbanized. Other projects include Jared Leto’s Artifact (Supervising Editor) and Zach Heinserling’s Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie & The Boxer (Consulting Editor). She won both an Emmy and ACE award for her work on the acclaimed HBO six-part series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Most recently Shelby edited episodes of Quantico (ABC), High Maintenance (HBO), and The Deuce (HBO).

Moderator:

Claire Shanley, Post Producer
Claire Shanley is a Post Producer whose recent projects include “The Plot Against America” and “The Deuce”. Her background also includes post facility & technical management roles, among them Managing Director for Sixteen19, Technical Director for Broadway Video, and others. She Co-Chairs the Board of Directors of the NYC LGBT Center and serves on the Advisory Board of NYWIFT (NY Women in Film & Television).

Thursday, March 25th at 4 pm EST via Zoom

Leveraging Your Career: Personal Branding and Social Media

In the "Virtual Age," where remote work has grown 44% over the last year, industry whispers discuss a workforce reimagined by 2025. NY Post Alliance has partnered with Leaders of various sectors to open a discussion centered around personal branding, social media engagement, and how it can leverage your career. Hear from individual branding leaders to discuss unique branding strategy do's/dont's. Learn how to target your audience and get noticed by employers.

We encourage attendees to tag and use the hashtags below on NY Post Alliance Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram.
#BrandingNYPost
#NYPostVirtualYou

Thursday, February 25th at 4 pm EST via Zoom

Panelists:
Emily Miethner
Emily Miethner is passionate about empowering people to achieve their goals, which she does as the Founder and CEO of FindSpark, MCG Social, an adjunct professor, and an award-winning professional speaker.  Through FindSpark, a community dedicated to setting up young pros for career success, Miethner has produced more than 250 educational career programs and campaigns. She has cultivated an active digital and in-person community of over 30,000 students and young professionals and top employers including NBCUniversal, Yelp, L'Oreal, Grey, Bustle, and IPG Mediabrands — inspiring career optimism in diverse young professionals around the world with actionable, career-changing tips and resources.

MCG Social, the consulting branch of FindSpark, provides community management, event production, and millennial expertise to agencies and brands. Their clients include Elizabeth Arden, Trojan, NBCUniversal, IFC, and FirstMark Capital.

Emily can be found at events, conferences, and universities, leading talks and workshops about personal branding, internships, social media, and networking. She's been a featured speaker at The International Youth Leaders Assembly at The United Nations, SXSW Interactive, Lean In NYC, Internet Week, Time Inc, Columbia University, Princeton University, and New York University, among others. A sought-out millennial expert and thought leader, Miethner has been featured in The New York Times, VICE, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, SELF Magazine, GLAMOUR, and on Good Morning America.

As an Adjunct Professor since 2014, Emily teaches career and social media skills to a range of students at the School of Visual Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology and has her certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University.

Emily is also a Board Member of Techies Give Back and a member of the Hofstra University Women in Leadership Alumni Association.

Dr. Nicole C. Scott, SPHR, CPC, ACC
Using a strengths-oriented approach, Dr. Nicole C. Scott is a strategic integrator of individual talents into cohesive, high performing teams with values greater than the sum of their parts. Her personal mission statement is “To help others pursue their passions, so they too can live a life fulfilled.”

With a passion for creating well-being, Dr. Nicole C. Scott has served communities across the United States for over 20 years. Through her work in education reform, leader training/development, and workforce development, she has contributed to building capacity for more equitable access to career and financial well-being for under-resourced communities and community members. She continues to serve local Pittsburgh communities, as well as international communities. Her current work is focused on driving employee engagement through equity and inclusion through the design and implementation of internal workforce development programming and community outreach within a large international logistics company, customized leader development solutions for small businesses and non-profits, and sharing of thought leadership on coaching and leading high performing teams.
Dr. Scott’s Strengths: Individualization, Strategy, Connectedness, Learning, Input.LINKEDIN

Steve Hullfish
Steve Hullfish has been producing and editing award-winning television since the mid-1980s. He has written six books, and edited six theatrical feature films (including two Number One New Movies in the US). He has lectured at NAB, DVExpo and the Master Editor seminars. He has edited on Avid since 1992 and was named to Avid's first group of Master Editors. His client list includes: Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, NBC, PBS, Turner Networks, The Oprah Winfrey Show, "Investigative Reports" and "Cold Cases" with Bill Kurtis for A&E, Jim Henson Home Entertainment, Major League Soccer, The Chicago Cubs, Wilson Sporting Goods and Exxon/Mobil.

Moderator:

Candece Munroe
Candece Munroe has held various production positions as a camera pa, office pa, production coordinator, script supervisor, and video journalist. She has been a promotional model and influencer for various experiential marketing campaigns. Candece also has an extensive hospitality and marketing background managing experiential marketing campaigns for companies such as Samsung at the Barclays Center, Disney, American Express at the Us Open, NBC Unequal for NBC Upfronts 2015, CBS Cartoon Network Upfronts, Super Bowl 50, etc. In 2017 she was a trainee of the Made in NY Post Production Training Program Cycle 2. She worked for Final Frame Post as a Client Services Coordinator before participating in the HBO Media Mkrs Post Production Coordinator Training Program’s first cohort Summer 2020. Upon completing the Media Makers program, she is now a Post Production Coordinator for a Showtime Episodic series.

Post Break: How to PNYA?

The post-production industry has had to quickly adapt to the "new normal" of Covid. And the Post New York Alliance has adapted right along with it, creating new formats of programs, information, and community. This edition of Post Break will describe each of these initiatives, give contact info for how you can get involved, answer any questions you have, and show you where to go for ongoing updates.

Hear from PNYA Chair Yana Collins Lehman, Board Secretary / Chair of Education & Events Committee Chris Peterson, Membership Director / Board Member Jennifer Lane, Board Member Ben Baker, Administrator Rebekah Hernandez and several members who have formed valuable relationships and advanced their careers through their participation in the PNYA.

Post Break: Remote Workflows, New Horizons

New York State Post Production Community,

Now that working remotely has become commonplace, what are the broader effects on our industry going to be? This panel will move beyond the tools of remote work to examine:

• The pros and cons of managing teams remotely. 
  

• The changing role of the post-PA, and what new skills are now in demand.

• Whether post-production teams will become global, how that could facilitate work with previously unreachable clients, and what implications that could have for tax credits.

• How the need for data security affects everything.

Thursday, December 3rd at 4pm EST via ZOOM

Panelists:
Andrew Bly, Co-Founder/CEO, The Molecule VFX

Andrew Bly grew up in Milton, PA, where he had always known his future was in entertainment and entrepreneurship. After graduating from Full Sail University he moved to New York City at 19 years old. His first freelance gig landed him on the set of Beastie Boys "Ch-Check It Out" and solidified the next year working directly with Adam Yauch at the beginning of Oscilloscope Films.

In 2005 Andrew was one of the founding members of Molecule VFX. As CEO Andrew ensures that Molecule VFX remains true to their core values of delivering high-quality work within expected budgets, and has helped the company gain a foothold within a rapidly growing and challenging VFX landscape. Andrew has worked on a number of TV series and feature films such as "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix), "Billions" (Showtime), “Dickinson” (Apple), "Da 5 Bloods" (Netflix), "The Plot Against America" (HBO), and "Five Feet Apart" (Lionsgate).

Andrew is an active member of the VFX and Post-Production communities, having served as both a board member for the Post New York Alliance and Chair of the New York chapter of the Visual Effects Society. He has become one of these communities’ strongest advocates and has worked with everyone from lawmakers to local nonprofits in New York and LA to make sure that artists have the resources they need to be successful.

Diana Dekajlo, Post Production Supervisor

Diana Dekajlo is a New York-based post-production supervisor with extensive 4K/HDR experience. She began her career as a facility producer before moving to freelance post-production supervising. She has experience in both the documentary and narrative spaces, including Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix), Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix), The Case Against Adnan Syed (HBO), Divorce (HBO), and The Queen's Gambit (Netflix). She is a member of the Post New York Alliance and the Producers Guild of America.

Yana Collins Lehman, Chairman of the PNYA Board and President / COO of Trevanna Post

Yana Collins Lehman, Chairman of the PNYA Board & President and COO of Trevanna Post - Yana currently oversees strategy and operations of the New York, Los Angeles, and London offices, overseeing a staff of 40. She has been a post-production accountant at Trevanna, working on feature films and television shows since 2004. She is an active member of Local 161.

Moderator:
Chris Peterson, Board Secretary / Executive Board Member, PNYA and Executive Producer

Chris Peterson has worked as an Executive Producer and media technologist at post-production facilities, VFX shops, sound/music houses, and systems integrators. His credits include Hereditary, Absentia (Sony/Amazon), Women of Troy (HBO), and Roger Waters’ concert tours and films. Prior to that, he was a producer/videographer/editor for the Howard Stern Show and on location for cable series in Brazil, Argentina, Trinidad, and around the United States. He is the host of the PNYA’s popular webinar series “Post Break,” which has been providing timely, post-Covid information and community for the post-production industry since April of 2020.