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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I FA L L 2 0 2 0 7 C O L L A B O R AT O R S Tod Maitland CAS was born into the industry he loves. With over 100 feature film credits and four Academy Award nominations, Tod's career spans four decades on films as recent as Joker and The Irishman to I Am Legend, Seabiscuit, JFK, and as far back as booming on Tootsie. Always at the forefront of technology, Tod is continually searching for the best ways to record sound, with a focus on musicals and music-based films. His music films span the spectrum from The Doors to Across the Universe, The Greatest Showman, and Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. Tod is currently working on his 10th musical, Tick, Tick… Boom!, directed by Lin Manual Miranda. Along with his three siblings, Tod grew up in the business training under their father, Dennis Maitland CAS, who received the 2009 CAS Lifetime Achievement Award. Tod also co-founded The Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Libraries and, over the years, has given seminars, written articles, trained a multitude of sound professionals, and taught sound. He is currently in his third year as an adjunct professor at NYU. credits and four Academy Award nominations, Patrick Spain CAS 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. working on varied films like Cars Daniel Vasquez Velez CAS is a re-recording mixer, sound editor, and sound designer from Colombia. He studied recording arts and earned a master's degree in audio post-production in London, United Kingdom, where he started his career in sound. He is the co-founder of Clap Studios, a sound post-production facility in Medellin, Colombia, and SoundNode in England. Some titles he has worked on include Animal's Wife, The Courier, Perdida, Days of the Whale, Guilty Men, Netflix's The Great Heist, Green Frontier, Crime Diaries: Night Out, and has five nominations for Best Sound at the Colombian Film Academy Awards for The Nobodies, A Thing Called Love, The Dragon Defense, The Smiling Lombana, and The Silence of the River. Daniel also has one nomination at the Venezuelan Film Awards for Being Impossible. He has been a member of the Colombian Film Academy since 2015; Audio Engineering Society (as part of the section committee); Colombian Cinema Sound Association (ADSC); and is part of his Regional Film Council. Daniel has also worked as a teacher at universities and academic institutions in the United Kingdom and Colombia, and has been invited as a guest speaker at various events. Daniel shares his passion for sound with aviation, as he's also a private pilot. sound designer from Colombia. He studied Sam Casas After graduating from UCSD's Revelle College as a music technology major in 1999, Sam began his career in audio post-production in the tape vault at POP Sound in Santa Monica. In 2003, he helped open Lime Studios, a boutique audio facility specializing in sound design and mix for TV commercials, where he still works today. Sam has found a successful niche mixing commercials for huge brands such as Nike, Facebook, Old Spice, and Apple, counting several Super Bowl commercials as career highlights. In 2017, Sam joined the union and began actively pursuing more narrative work as a supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer on various independent features, shorts, and documentaries. Working on a major studio feature or limited series is Sam's next career goal. Sam's 5.1 home studio has enabled him to stay busy during the pandemic while allowing him to spend more time with his wife Elise and four-year- old son Sebastian. Peter Kelsey CAS started his career in sound at the illustrious independent recording studio Trident Studios, where all the early Elton John and David Bowie albums were recorded. Here, Peter learned from engineers and producers such as Rupert Hine, Ken Scott, Roy Thomas Baker, Robin Geoffrey Cable, and David Hentschel. He was a second engineer on the Carly Simon album No Secrets, and part of the mixing team for Elton John's album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. After moving to the USA, he did a lot of work as a scoring mixer before moving into post-production sound. He has worked on many David Kelley shows, including Ally McBeal and Boston Legal, for both of which he won sound mixing Emmys. He worked for RH Factor for many years and for the last three years has worked for Smart Post Sound. He is currently working on Speechless, The Chi, Arrested Development, and Dead to Me. Peter has a degree in mathematics, a black belt in taekwondo, and loves public speaking. recording studio Trident Studios, where all the Whitney Worthen A graduate of Grace College, Whitney studied communications with a focus in film, but unsure of her place in the film world, headed back home to rural Indiana where she jump-started her journalist career. She began professionally writing in 2016 as a sports journalist for the Pilot News, covering high schools across North Central Indiana. After two years, Whitney moved to LA to pursue a career as a boom operator in the film industry. Though new to the industry, she has jumped in feet first learning the ropes from a number of great mentors and getting to know the sound community better. She's best known for wearing a Pepsi hat while out-and-about and for her deep love of Harry Potter.