Epic Story Telling – Q&A with Mark Mangini
Mark Mangini is Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, and Re-recording mixer at Formosa Features. He’s also an avid musician and lecturer. He won an Oscar Award for Best Sound Editing for Mad Max: Fury Road and was Oscar-nominated for Best Sound Effects Editing for The Fifth Element and...
Queen of The Sound – Q&A with Sherry Klein
Sherry Klein is an Emmy-nominated Re-recording Mixer at Smart Post Sound in Burbank, California. The studio is home to top sound designers and re-recording mixers, and has earned 14 Emmys and 34 Golden Reels. Sherry trained as a musician in Manhattan and went on to study composition in St. Louis,...
Musical Princess – Q&A with Paulina Yeung
Can you share your earliest influences in music and singing? I always tell people that The Phantom of the Opera was my first foray into music as that was the album that my mom listened to when she was pregnant with me. But it was my grandmother who encouraged and inspired me to sing. I remember...
Audio Grunt to Sound Wizard – Q&A with Larry Hopkins
Larry is an award-winning Sound Supervisor, Composer, Foley Artist and owner of A Sharp Media Recording Studios in Los Angeles. Hailing from a strong musical background, he has worked alongside artists such as The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, John Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Stevie Wonder, Kenny...
Get The Pulse Racing – Q&A with Mike Beatty
Mike is Owner and Director of Pulse Cinemas, one of the UK’s most established audio-visual distributors and designers of high-end home cinema systems. He has been working in the AV industry for nearly 30 years. His main roles now are business development and mentoring his team to perform at their...
Swords & Horses – Q&A with Ali Ören
Ali Oren is an award-winning Foley Artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. His work has featured in over 300 TV shows and 100 movies in Turkey and internationally and he also performs live on stage, for audio books and charity events. His most famous work features in the phenomenally successful Turkish...
Licence to Thrill – Q&A with Mark DeSimone
Mark DeSimone is an Emmy Award winning ADR Mixer/Re-Recording Mixer and a native New Yorker from Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. He graduated from Fordham University. He started mixing and producing music at age 17 and by 19 he moved into post-production as a re-recording and original scoring mixer...
The Final Edit: Q&A with Chris Denton
Chris Denton is an accomplished Video Editor in London. His work has featured on some of the most popular factual and specialist entertainment shows over recent years. These include Amazon Prime’s The Grand Tour, BBC’s Top Gear and Netflix’ Formula 1 - Drive To Survive. Chris has proven experience...
The X Dimension – Q&A with Paul McCambridge
Paul McCambridge is Director of Sales at Xperi, Europe.He is a technophile at heart who’s passionate about creating extraordinary experiences. He currently works at Xperi, selling solutions that make entertainment more entertaining, and smart devices smarter. Paul lives and works out of his home...