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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. 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. 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 journalism 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 L.A. 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.

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