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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y W I N T E R 2 0 2 0 9 David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE is a re-recording mixer and educator who has won two Emmy Awards and two MPSE Golden Reel Awards (and has been nominated 22 times). He is Past President and Board member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors. David was the Secretary of the Cinema Audio Society 2012-2019, Vice President 2007 -2011, and has been on the Board of Directors since 2006. He has been writing for the CAS Quarterly magazine since 2006 and was co-editor in 2007. His most recent projects include mixing the documentary Empty Net, about the US Paralympics sled hockey team that aired on NBC Sports. He also mixed the documentary Southwest of Salem, which won a Peabody Award. He also mixed the cult comedy Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, starring Persian-American comedian Maz Jobrani. David is an associate professor at CU Denver, where he teaches Recording Arts. David received his MFA in Cinema Production from USC and also holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. C O L L A B O R A T O R S David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE Devendra Cleary CAS is a Los Angeles-based production sound mixer who is currently mixing Season 2 of Schooled for ABC. He is an Executive Board member for I.A.T.S.E. Local 695 and a frequent contributor to the CAS Quarterly. He joined the CAS as an Associate member in 1999 and became a full member in 2008. who is currently mixing Season 2 of James Corbett CAS MPSE started in sound in 1964 as second boom at Paramount Pictures. He became an ADR mixer in 1971 at Warner Burbank, and, in 1973, a re-recording mixer at Warner Hollywood on Papillon with Dick Portman. He went on to mix The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Smokey and the Bandit, Wolfen, Kentucky Fried Movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and many more. He established Mix Magic Post Sound in 1982, mixing music videos such as Beat It, Beast of Burden, and the introduction of the Apple computer "The Sledge Hammer." Jim was nominated for an Emmy in 2005 for mixing The Aviator 5.1 trailer for the Academy Awards. To give back to the industry, Jim was active in Local 695 and was elected President. He joined the CAS in 1975, elected VP in '77 and President in 1980. In the mid '80s, he become a member of the MPSE, working his way up to Treasurer. In 1984, he was again elected President of the CAS until 1988 and continued on the Board for many years after. Jim retired in 2005. He loves to travel, kiteboard, work out at the gym, and care for the family's four dogs, all rescues. Sam Cohen CAS is a production sound mixer who was born in Morocco and moved to Paris at the age of 12. After studying at the National School of Sound for Features, Louis Lumiere, he started to work as a boom op on documentaries all over France. Over the next 25 years, Sam worked on features in Spain, Morocco, France, England, Italy, Thailand, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria with incredible directors such as Richard Lester, Oliver Stone, Jonathan Demme, Brian De Palma, Ridley Scott, and Woody Allen. While working on Lawrence Kasdan's French Kiss, he met the great production sound mixer John Pritchett CAS. Sam made the difficult decision to move from boom op to production sound mixer and has since worked on a number of series in France and on a number of international projects, having won the Israeli Film Academy's Best Sound Award in 2017 for Foxtrot and the Romanian Gopo Award for Best Sound in 2017 for Caini. Sam most recently finished the series Possession for Canal Plus. Sam likes to work on international projects because he likes to discover different universes and to question himself as he adapts to new situations.—finding it very exciting! and moved to Paris at the age of 12. After G. John Garrett CAS is a production sound mixer living in Boston, MA. He began mixing live music around 1970 and learned acoustics, signal flow, and recording technology along the way. He began in the industry booming for Boulder mixer Garrett Collenberger and moved into mixing documentaries, commercials, and feature films after moving to Boston in 1984. He then expanded his RF training by working with broadcast engineers and now also consults with a broadcast tech company in the area. Continued on page 12