Frank Stettner CAS is working on Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire. With him are Sam Perry and Peter Fonda, alternating boom operators, and Toussaint Kotright, utility. Kicking off Season 4 on Sons of Anarchy, Brett Grant-Grierson CAS is mixing a challeng-
ing show and happy to have boom operator Josh Bower and Alexandra Gallo as utility/second boom on board.
Peter Damski CAS took on a new chal-
lenge for spring quarter at SCAD. He was asked to do the sound design and live mixing for the Performing Arts Department’s production of Hair: The Musical. Twenty-six wireless mics and a seven-piece band for seven performances. The students kept thanking him for making them sound so good and he told them that they were the ones who sounded good: “I’m just making sure the audience can hear it.” It was a fun challenge and my sitcom experience definitely helped. Oh, they kept their clothes on throughout.
Philip Perkins CAS mixed a new PBS doc on Alzheimer’s: Scott Kirschenbaum’s You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t, continued work on the kid’s TV series Stepping on Up and on Nancy Kelly’s doc Moments in Time. He also worked on the ongoing doc 100 Years of Chevy (Florentine Films) and recorded music for a new DVD version of Gino Robair’s opera I, Norton (about Emperor Norton).
Steve Weiss CAS is mixing the second season of ABC’s Body of Proof, shooting at Disney with Chris Tiffany on boom and Dennis Carlin handling utility chores.
Richard Lightstone CAS, with boom opera-
tors Jeff Norton and Michael Davies, have a pilot in the summer for Disney Channel called Gulliver Quinn, directed by Rob Schrab.
Michael Olman CAS mixed Homeland for Showtime, starring Mandy Patinkin and Claire Danes, as well as The Playboy Club for NBC, both picked up to series commitments. In addition, Olman mixed Awake, which was also picked up to series. Olman also finished out the seventh season of Desperate Housewives. My boom operator of 16 years, Eliah Matthew, and I are just finishing up Sanctuary Season 4. We were fortunate to receive the 2011 Leo Award for Best Sound in a Dramatic Series. It was for Sanctuary Season 3 and the episode is called “Kali 3.” Best wishes to all my sound department brothers and sisters. –Kevin Sands CAS
Charlie Slemaker CAS writes: I’m feeling
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Steven A. Morrow CAS has just finished up Paramount Pictures Fun Size, a feature film
in Cleveland, Ohio, with boom operator Craig Dollinger and local utility Steve Guercio.
Mark Ulano CAS here: We are currently working on the untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Scientology film, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Laura Dern. First half was up in Oakland. We came to this straight off the Stephen Frears film Lay the Favorite, starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall and Vince Vaughn, which was shot in Las Vegas and New Orleans. Just before that was J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, which is now in theaters, as well as Cowboys & Aliens, which we did in Santa Fe. From here we go onto Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, with Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo De Caprio, Samuel L. Jackson and others. Danny McCullough CAS just wrapped Season 4 of MTV’s Jersey Shore in Florence, Italy, and is currently supervising the audio department for Season 5 in New Jersey. It’s been a great five seasons so far, and I couldn’t do it without my amazing crew of seven ENG mixers and my awesome A2s.
My first year as a full CAS member got off to a bit of a slow start, but I just finished Season 1 (10 episodes) of ABC Family’s new summer hit Switched at Birth, with Aaron Grice booming and Michael Kaleta on second boom. It’s the best show I have been on in years. Very old school “film” workflow, single-camera masters, proper takes, delicate lighting, great crew, prepared and friendly actors who hit their marks and speak their lines to be heard, hardly any radio-micing. It was a real joy. I am now moving on to another new ABC Family show, Jane by Design, which I can only hope will be half as fun. Richard Bullock will boom with Aaron Grice handling the second boom this time. Between the two of them, they have boomed all my features over the last four years, so I’m very happy to have them both on my team. –Robert Sharman CAS After a sweaty month of nights in New Orleans, Tim Cargioli and Jonathan Gaynor CAS are enjoying a cool time finishing Erik Van Looy’s The Loft in Brussels. So many beers, so little time.
Sylvain Arseneault CAS spent three months in Sri Lanka for Midnight’s Children, a
Deepa Mehta (Academy Award nominee) movie, from a novel by Salman Rushdie. From Richard Branca CAS at Sony Pictures Post Production Facilities: Paul Massey CAS and Craig Henighan just completed Real Steel in the Cary Grant Theatre. Terry Porter
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and Dean Zupancic finished The Smurfs in the Holden Theatre. Currently, Jeff Haboush CAS and Greg Russell CAS continue to mix Man on a Ledge in the Novak Theatre. Tateum Kohut CAS and Greg Orloff CAS completed Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill in the Burt Lancaster Theatre. Deb Adair CAS and Ron Bochar are currently working on Moneyball in the Anthony Quinn Theatre. On Dub Stage 6, Rusty Smith and Bill Freesh CAS will be mixing Pan Am, 90210 and Project 5. Terry O’Bright CAS and Keith Rogers CAS will be working on Charlie’s Angels and Bones on Dub Stage 7. On Dub Stage 11, Mark Linden CAS and Tara Paul CAS are dubbing Hawthorne. Derek Marcil CAS and Fred Tator CAS continue to mix The Big C and House of Lies on Dub Stage 12.
Paul Vik Marshall CAS and his boom
operator, Paul Leo Romo, continue to stay busy with commercials working on several big campaigns for AT&T, McDonald’s, Kaiser and Heineken to name a few. Marshall and Romo with two other partners, Dave Stockton (production mixer) and Patrick Gleason (electrical engineer), have also been working on making the industry greener with their company, Solar on Set. This year, Solar on Set’s RayCatcher portable solar charging stations have worked on 42 commercials and a National Geographic documentary, Flea Markets. Check our website out at solaronset.com. We are having fun doing our part in making the film and television industry more environmentally-friendly, one set at a time.
Keith A. Garcia CAS started out the year working with Paul Graff on the Foo Fighters: Back and Forth documentary—although—can
you still call that work? Hanging out with your favorite band of all time? Then, he took 20 of his best sound mixers to Season 9 and 10 of Hell’s Kitchen for FOX in Culver City. Keith is currently supervising yet another season of Project Runway here in NYC and is so thankful to have his family here with him. Up next? Another tear-jerking season of Secret Millionaire for ABC (and no, he DIDN’T cry on the set last year, no matter what you heard). Greetings from New York: I closed out the year finishing Mr. Popper’s Penguins, starring Jim Carrey and directed by Mark Waters. This was my first project using the Arriflex Alexa digital camera. This year started with a Warner Bros. film, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on the Jonathan Safran Foer book of the same title. This film, directed by Stephen Daldry, stars a 12-year-old first-time actor named Thomas Horn, who is just incredible to watch. He is joined on his first outing by veteran actors Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Max