Panelists:

Rita Walsh, Associate Producer/Post Producer

Rita Walsh is an award-winning producer and post specialist whose most recent credits include co-producer on Kitty Green’s THE ASSISTANT, associate producer/post supervisor on Eliza Hittman’s NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, and producer on Rodd Rathjen’s dramatic feature BUOYANCY. She produced Jessica Leski’s festival hit I USED TO BE NORMAL: A BOYBAND FANGIRL STORY and was associate producer/post supervisor on Kitty Green’s Netflix Original CASTING JONBENET. She also has production credits on Justin Kurzel’s SNOWTOWN MURDERS, Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR, and Adam Elliot’s MARY & MAX amongst others from her native Australia. Since 2019, she has worked between New York and Melbourne.

 Blair McClendon, Editor

Blair McClendon is an editor, filmmaker, and writer. He was a Contributing Editor for the 2017 Sundance Documentary Edit and Story labs and winner of the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for Editing with the film LAPS. His work has screened at Cannes, Tribeca, TIFF, and other festivals around the world. He was recently an editor on The Assistant, which premiered at Telluride. His writing has been published in n+1, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

Skip Lievsay, Sound Mixer/Sound Supervisor

Skip Lievsay is one of the most accomplished and respected sound technicians in the film industry today having worked on more than 180 feature films. He is currently Academy Award-nominated for both Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing for ROMA. In 2014, Skip won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Gravity; he was also nominated that year in the same category for Inside Llewyn Davis.

In 2007, Skip was nominated for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and True Grit in 2010. He was nominated for BAFTA for his work on The Silence of the Lambs. He is the recipient of numerous Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and Motion Picture Sound Editors awards and nominations, as well as many other accolades for his work.

Lievsay is also known for his work with the Coen brothers, including their first film, Blood Simple, supervising the sound and/or mixing on all their subsequent films. He has also worked with Martin Scorsese on The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, GoodFellas, Age of Innocence, Casino, and many others. With Spike Lee, Lievsay’s credits include Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Mo’Better Blues, Crooklyn, and others. Other credits include John Sayles’ Matewan and Passion Fish; Alfonso Cuaron’s Y tu Mama Tambien; and Terrence Malick’s The New World.

Lievsay’s credits also include feature film projects with John Waters, Ulu Grosbard, Robert Altman, Julie Taymor, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tim Burton, Francis Lawrence, Kevin MacDonald, Cameron Crow, and Darren Aronofsky.

His documentary credits include An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman, It Might Get Loud, and Wormwood.

Francis Power, Post Production Supervisor

Francis Power is a graduate of Columbia University where he was fortunate to have Andrew Sarris as an instructor and his production advisor. Over the past twelve years he has worked as a Post Production Supervisor on feature, TV and documentary projects including most recently JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, LOST GIRLS, ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE and as Archival Producer on the Fran Lebowitz Netflix series PRETEND IT’S A CITY. Francis also serves as a consultant to the Film Foundation to help preserve and restore motion picture history as well as The Harold Hunter Foundation to help underserved youth realize their full potential and harness the power of skateboarding to transform lives. A proud PNYA member since its inception.

Moderator:

Eli Lederberg

Eli Lederberg is a recent graduate of Parsons School of Design and while in college had several internships working in NY Post Production with companies like A24 and MATTE Projects. He is currently a Post-Production Assistant on the Amazon Studios television series Outer Range.

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