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‘Making Waves’ to Premiere at Tribeca

March 5, 2019

The documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, which CineMontage wrote about in October 2017, will receive its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in late April.

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MPSE Announces Golden Reel Award Nominations

January 18, 2019

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) has announced the nominees for the 66th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Nominees represent the work of the world’s most talented sound artists and their contributions to the past

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A Spoonful of Sonics: Immersing ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ in Songs and Sounds

December 19, 2018

Released in 1964, director Robert Stevenson’s original ‘Mary Poppins,’ starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns, set a benchmark in the Walt Disney Studios canon of full-energy musicals.

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Way Down Below the Ocean…
Music Fit for the King of Atlantis

December 19, 2018

Although they are still in the frenzy of the final mix in early October, co-music editors Paul Rabjohns and J.J. George somehow find time to usher a visitor onto a Warner Bros. mixing stage to discuss their one-year-plus adventure editing the music track for a new superhero epic, James Wan’s ‘Aquaman.’

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Inheritors of ‘The Wind’:
Murawski and Segal Finish Welles’ Final Film

October 31, 2018

Orson Welles was looking forward to editing ‘The Other Side of the Wind.’ In 1970, before he had even begun shooting what became his now-fabled unfinished (until this year) film, Welles discussed his post-production plans in a conversation with his friend, actor-director-writer Peter Bogdanovich.

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What Our Members Do:
Seth Glennie-Smith

August 1, 2018

For me, the most exciting part of the job is taking music written by the composer and finding sneaky ways to reintegrate it into different parts of the show. This not only establishes thematic continuity, but also helps speed the process along.

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70th Emmy Awards Nominations Announced

July 12, 2018

Nominations for the 70th Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday morning, July 12 by the Television Academy. The Editors Guild congratulates all of its members who received nominations.

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She’s Got the Music in Her:
Mitsuko Alexandra Yabe

June 12, 2018

Music editor Mitsuko Alexandra Yabe exemplifies the possibilities offered by the world of post-production if one is willing to throw oneself in and find one’s way. Yabe was born in New York but grew up in Tokyo, where she trained in violin and taught herself guitar.

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Left Brain Power: Assistant Editors
Run Efficient Cutting Rooms

July 1, 2009

The expansion of digital filmmaking into HD and beyond has seen film become an anachronism, rather than a competitor or adjunct to digital. Many of the traditional assistant’s duties are being re-shaped or re-tasked.

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