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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S I 7 Summer is here and much has happened since our Spring quarterly was delivered to your mailbox. As more and more people receive vaccinations, we are seeing more restrictions being lifted as Covid cases decline. Businesses and schools are beginning to open up again, people are going back to work and and I'm pretty sure it's safe to say we are all looking forward to getting out and about and patronizing our local restaurants and businesses again. You will notice the format in this issue of Wavelength is slightly modified. This is to make room to congratulate and acknowledge all of this year's MPSE Award winners. It is hard to believe it has already been a little more than 2 months ago since we all gathered together at this year's 68th Annual Golden Reel Awards, the first ever interactive-virtual and International awards event for the MPSE! I want to start o‰ by congratulating our event director Steven Avila, MPSE and everyone behind the scenes who worked tirelessly and literally around the clock to create, invent, and bring us all together from around the world for this incredible event! It was great to see everyone enjoying catching up with each other, especially at the after party on the rooftop somewhere virtually in coastal Mexico! The MPSE honored supervising sound editor Dennis Drummond with this year's Career Acheivement Award, and Academy Award-winner George Miller with its annual Filmmaker Award. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners of all 23 categories at the 68th Annual Golden Reel Awards! There is a brief event intro, A New Age by Stuart Morton, MPSE (page 32) followed by the complete list of winners starting on page 36. And last but not least, special thanks to all of the winners who took the time to answer a few questions for Wavelength. I hope you enjoy Sledding the Arctics (page 20) a fascinating interview by Wavelength contributor Eric Marks, MPSE with supervising sound editors Todd Toon, MPSE and Odin Benitez, MPSE who were the winners of the 67th Annual Golden Reel Award Non-Theatrical Feature TOGO. Odin also won the award in this same category at this year's event for The Ultimate Playlist of Noise. Eric also brings us an interesting and inspiring interview featuring documentary sound editor Sung Rok Choi for our cover story, Inspired Naturalism on page 58. If you've been wanting to upgrade your facility or home studio you must check out Korey Pereira's review of Avid MTRX Studio in this edition's Tech Corner on page 14. Catch up on EIPMA news and the fascinating ways they are "Bridging the Gap" (page 11). Join others in the entertainment industry and find out how you can help support their programs, they are doing amazing things! Steve Lee has been hard at work hosting live weekly webinars featuring people in many aspects of creating audio for entertainment. These webinars are so interesting and fabulously entertaining in their own right, and they help raise much needed funding for The Hollywood Sound Museum. Head to page 18 to find out who some of his guests you've been missing are and how to become a "Museum Subscriber" so you'll always have access to live & past webinars, and you will be helping to support the museum by doing so. Some of the stories alone are priceless. Be sure to visit the MPSE Store at mpse.org/store to check out the three new summer lines now available, MPSE Waves, Sound Waves for Days, and Catching Waves and grab yourself some summer swag! Wavelength's format will return in the Fall with its usual departments and more insightful articles. Until then, enjoy your summer and stay safe! LETTER FROM THE EDITOR CHRISTINA HORGAN MPSE Editor I MPSE Wavelength THE HOLLYWOOD SOUND MUSEUM: PLANS MOVING FORWARD SLEDDING THE ARCTICS WITH GOLDEN REEL AWARD WINNERS FOR TOGO A NEW AGE: THE GOLDEN REEL AWARDS ADAPT EIPMA: SUMMER 2021 T H E O F F I C I A L P U B L I C AT I O N o f t h e M O T I O N P I C T U R E S O U N D E D I T O R S SUNG ROK CHOI Inspired Naturalism S U M M E R 202 1 FYC " IT'S EXCITING; IT'S BEAUTIFUL... " – VULTURE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION STAR TREK: DISCOVERY LEGEND Live: Trim: Bleed: FINAL SIZE Live: Trim: Bleed: 7.875" W x 7.25" H 8.375" W x 7.75" H 8.625" W x 8" H 51048 | PARAMOUNT + FYC - 8.375" W x 7.75" H MPSE (3/4 PG AD) | PARAMOUNT + | 05.21.21 FM 6721 ROMAINE ST. LOS ANGELES, CA 90038 | T 323.952.2700 ON THE COVER: Documentary sound editor Sung Rok Choi

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