20 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Spring 2021
THE
LITTLE
THINGS
by Richard Lightstone CAS AMPS
The Little Things, written and directed by John
Lee Hancock, is another feature film that has had
a much-delayed release into 2021. Sound Mixer
Jose Antonio Garcia worked on it back in 2019,
with Boom Operator Jonathan Fuh and Utility
Sound Technician Sheraton Toyota. Starring
Denzel Washington as Deke, a Deputy Sheriff
from Kern County who mentors and partners with
Detective Baxter, played by Rami Malek, in a cat-
and-mouse hunt for a serial killer, Albert Sparma,
chillingly portrayed by Jared Leto.
This was the first time Jose worked with Director John Lee
Hancock, who he describes as a lovely man and amazing
to work with. It was a concentrated forty-seven-day shoot
with more than three hundred scenes, and lots of daily
moves, so his equipment mostly lived on a stake bed. The
locations were predominantly in the cities of Lancaster,
Pomona, and Los Angeles, with some stage work in Santa
Clarita.
Jose previously worked with Denzel on Roman J. Israel,
Esq. "Denzel is a very intense actor, and always prepared,
