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12 W I N T E R 2 0 2 0 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y James Ridgley CAS Traversing the globe several times as a comedy juggler was the first career of James Ridgley. Writing screenplays brought him to film school where he lucked into production sound mixing by borrowing two-time Academy Award-winning sound mixer Willie Burton's Nagra 4.2 to mix a pilot sizzle for his producing partner (who was also shopping James' screenplay DC DOG to several of Disney's first-look companies). James still writes and markets his screenplays while maintaining his sound career, for which he received an Emmy Certificate Award in 2010 and a pat on the back for helping Christopher Plummer win an Oscar in the film Beginners, for which he was one of two production sound mixers on the project. C O L L A B O R A T O R S Brandon Loulias is a fourth- generation sound professional for film and TV. He started working in music around 2002, recording and mixing independent records in Los Angeles. At 20, he was hired to work in post sound for King SoundWorks, mentored by owner Greg King. This was a comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of post sound, cultivating Brandon's development in all departments: sound editorial, Foley, and re-recording, with meticulous instruction. He then began freelancing on various independent movies worldwide, as both a production and re-recording mixer for the same projects. He recorded effects and ambience on location, and cut the dialogue after the fact. For five years, he was the supervising sound editor for Reading Rainbow, which kept him and his crew busy recording and cutting sound effects in between movies. He joined IATSE Local 695, and began booming and mixing 2nd units, most recently on such shows as The Good Place, Veep, and Station 19. Along the way, he was engineering his own cart, as well as many others, optimizing their interfaces as needed. Brandon is proud to say that he was mentored by production mixers Agamemnon Andrianos CAS, Bill MacPherson CAS, David Kirschner CAS, and Peter Devlin CAS, and continues to work in the field. for film and TV. He started working in Aletha Rodgers CAS began mixing in 1990 in Los Angeles as an independent contractor under Rodgers & Marshall Sound, Inc. and as an IATSE Local 695 member where she recorded sound/ dialogue for TV, commercials, and feature films. From 2004 to 2006, she was co-editor and contributor to the Journal of the Cinema Audio Society, where she interviewed award- winning production and post-production sound mixers. Rodgers also served as a CAS Board member for many years. Along with Paul Marshall CAS, she wrote and produced a 10-minute documentary on The History of the Cinema Audio Society that was shown at the CAS Awards ceremony in 2004. It was also published in the awards winter edition of the CAS magazine in 2004. She is currently the communications & marketing coordinator for Northeastern State University for Tahlequah, Muskogee, and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Patrick Spain began his career in the scoring world at Signet Sound in 2001 working on varied films like Cars and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In 2006, he was hired at the venerable Ocean Way Recording (now renamed United Recording), this time working on everything from Dr. Dre productions to John Mayer records to the score for Avatar. In 2011, Patrick was hired as a mix tech at the industry leading Todd- AO Lantana stages in Santa Monica. His very first day there was an FX playback of a single reel of Avengers for director Joss Whedon on the same stage where Saving Private Ryan was mixed! It was in this incredible environment where Patrick learned the ropes of film and television audio post from some of the best re-recording mixers, editors, and sound supervisors in the world. He worked on shows as different as the run-and-gun feature Lone Survivor to HBO's Girls to the music centric hit Nashville. After the closing of Todd-AO, Patrick worked a quick stint at Technicolor Sound Services, and then made the jump to freelancing as a re-recording mixer full time. In that time, Patrick has mixed for clients such as Netflix, Disney, WB, ABC, and DreamWorks. Danny Maurer CAS Associate member Danny Maurer is a Colorado transplant who now calls LA home. He is a member of the Local 695 Young Workers Committee. This summer, Danny wrapped the recently renewed Mayans M.C. and is currently working on a new Disney+ show called Love Simon. While mostly occupied as a boom op and utility, Danny also spends his spare time maintaining a full featured bag-cart setup for mixing commercials and 2nd units.