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Home » Alchemy Post Sound Provides Foley for Nine Sundance Films

Alchemy Post Sound Provides Foley for Nine Sundance Films

Westchester, New York — Continuing its long association with the world’s best independent films, Alchemy Post Sound provided Foley sound services for nine films screening at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

They include three films participating in the festival’s prestigious U.S. Dramatic Competition and two included in its Premieres track. Alchemy Post Sounds’ team for the projects included Foley artist Leslie Bloome, Foley Mixer Ryan Collison, Foley artist Joanna Fang, Foley mixer Connor Nagy and Foley editors Nick Seaman and Laura Heinzinger.

“We are always excited to work with promising young filmmakers and congratulate all those whose films are screening at Sundance this year,” says Alchemy Post Sound CEO Andrea Bloome. “Our Sundance projects this year include several remarkable films and involved inspired collaborations with gifted directors, supervising sound editors and re-recording mixers.”

From left: Farewell Amor by Ekwa Msangi, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Bruce Francis Cole. Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman; Shirley by Josephine Decker. All photos courtesy of Sundance Institute |

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (U.S. Dramatic Competition) is writer-director Eliza Hittman’s spartan tale of a quiet, Pennsylvania teenager who, faced with an unintended pregnancy and no viable alternatives for termination in her home state, boards a bus and heads for a clinic in New York City. Chris Foster, supervising sound editor.

Shirley is director Josephine Decker’s drama of a young couple who move in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson and her professor husband to find themselves fodder for the psycho-drama of Jackson’s next novel. Leslie Shatz, supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer.

Riley Keough and Taylour Paige appear in Zola by Janicza Bravo, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Anna Kooris; Lost Girls by Liz Garbus; Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennel; All photos courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Zola (U.S. Dramatic Competition) is director Janicza Bravo’s eccentric saga of two women who embark on a cross-country road trip, aiming to make money dancing in Florida strip clubs. Jon Flores, supervising sound editor -Leslie Shatz, re-recording mixer.

Lost Girls (Premieres) is director Liz Garbus’ dramatization of Robert Kolker’s true-crime novel about mother’s relentless fight for justice after her daughter goes missing in an affluent Long Island neighborhood. Leslie Shatz, supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer.

Promising Young Woman (Premieres), director Emerald Fennel’s debut feature, paints a perversely heroic portrait of a young woman, who, traumatized by her past, carries out a personal vendetta against male cruelty. Frederic Dubois, re-recording mixer/supervising sound editor.

Julia Garner appears in The Assistant by Kitty Green, an official selection of the Spotlight program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival; The Climb by Michael Angelo; The Night House by David Bruckner; all photos courtesy of Sundance Institute.

The Assistant (Spotlight), director Kitty Green’s follow-up to her acclaimed Casting JonBenet, follows a young assistant to a prominent entertainment executive, through the course of a single day as she suffers a series of humiliations and degradations. Leslie Shatz, supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer.

The Climb (Spotlight), winner of a Coup de Coeur prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, is director Michael Angelo Covino’s black comedy about two friends on a bicycling trip on the twisting roads of southern France. Ryan Billia, re-recording mixer/supervising sound editor.

The Night House (Midnight) is director David Bruckner’s psychological horror film about a woman who is visited by disturbing dreams and visions following the unexpected death of her husband. Ric Schnupp, re-recording mixer/sound designer/supervising sound editor.

About Alchemy Post Sound

Alchemy Post Sound is a 3,500 square foot, dedicated Foley studio designed specifically for Foley by resident Foley Artist Leslie Bloome. The company’s Emmy Award-winning staff has created sound for numerous major feature films, long-running television series, independent films and popular games. Alchemy’s services also include field recording, live performance and sound design.

Contact:

Andrea Bloome

COO & Studio Manager

 (914) 737-7350 studio

a.bloome@alchemypostsound.com

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Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

U.K. Extends COVID Insurance Scheme; Distributes $21 Million in Cinema Grants

The U.K.’s insurance scheme for film and television has been extended until April.

Known as the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, the groundbreaking £500 million ($676 million) fund assures productions that they’ll receive financial support in case of COVID-related losses. The program has so far accepted 100 qualifying productions.

To read the full article in Variety, click on this link. 

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Russo Brothers Received Close to $50 Million From Saudi Bank

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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