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and I had heard of Todd, but I had
never met him before.
TODD TOON, SUPERVISING
SOUND EDITOR: Yeah, I worked
on a little bit of everything on that
film. It was just one of those broad
comedies and a lot of fun.
OB: Then much later on, you hired
me when you were at Disney. I
would go work with George Watters
and Rob Sephton and their crew. It
was great to work with those guys
because for me, they had these
BY ERIC MARKS MPSE
Sledding
the Arctics
Todd Toon and Odin Benitez were
the supervising sound editors of
Togo, a Disney+ film that won the
67th Annual Golden Reel Award
in 2020 for Best Non-Theatrical
Feature. Odin also recently won the
2021 Golden Reel Award in the
same category for The Ultimate
Playlist of Noise. In this interview,
Todd and Odin detailed their
process of working on Togo!
ERIC MARKS MPSE:
I'm joined
today by Togo supervising sound
editors Todd Toon and Odin
Benitez. Togo was the 2020
MPSE Golden Reel Award
winner in the category of Non-
Theatrical Feature. Todd and
Odin, how did you begin working
together?
ODIN BENITEZ, SUPERVISING
SOUND EDITOR: I remember the
first time we worked together. We
were working on Ace Ventura 2.
[laughs] We needed some help
