By: Anton Handel
Glasses clink and silverware clatters in a restaurant. A motorcycle on the street zooms past. Someone at the next table orders a drink. We hear sounds like these everyday but our ears instinctively tune them out as we focus on the main plot of our daily lives. But for supervising... Read more
By: CreativeFuture
Nestled among science labs on the University of Southern California’s tree-filled Los Angeles campus, Dr. Clifford Johnson’s faculty office immediately reveals itself as a temple devoted to the intersection of science, art, and creativity. It’s the ideal workspace for the disarmingly charismatic, ultra-erudite physics professor who’s become one of Hollywood’s... Read more
By: Melanie Maupin
Even before your favorite films hit theatres, many were first screened at film festivals. For the past 85 years, festivals have been vital to the global film industry and popular culture at large. They have opened doors for generations of emerging artists, fulfilled dreams, heralded shifts in the kinds of... Read more
By: CreativeFuture
“I love the energy loop that’s created when you get people fired up,” Miriam Cutler says, explaining what drew her into a most unexpected professional journey. For over twenty years, Cutler has beaten the odds to make a successful career as a film composer in Hollywood. And she’s managed to... Read more
By: Ruth Vitale
We have a long and frustrating history on piracy and other copyright matters with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We’ve said it before – EFF sometimes does good work. That’s what makes their predictable intransigence about piracy so incredibly frustrating and tiresome. Recently, EFF weighed in against efforts by the... Read more
By: Cesar Fishman
“When my kids were little, their teacher asked them, ‘What does your father do?,’ Jeremy Grody says. Their answer was, ‘He listens to the same sound over and over again.’” And that’s exactly what he does! Grody’s renowned for his work as a sound supervisor and re-recording mixer on films... Read more