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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I W I N T E R 2 0 2 2 9 CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY MISSION STATEMENT Dear Friends, The holiday season is upon us. Many will be visiting family for the first time in more than a year, as social distancing restrictions are loosened in the wake of falling COVID contraction rates and rising vaccinations. I wish you all a wonderful return to family and friends and cannot wait for the opportunity to see you all again in person. Please be safe. A silver lining emerged from the tumultuousness that was 2020; members of CAS continued to express how virtual-event formats have allowed them to connect with members from all over the globe, forming friendships and alliances. Thus on November 20 from 10 am to 2 pm PST, we organized our first-ever co-produced event with MPSE called "The Sounding Board v1.0." The event was announced via social media, media outlets, and through membership e-communication from our office and featured three panels, including our legendary Parade of Carts, which this year also featured SFX field recordists. If you missed it, videos of our panels will be on our website shortly in the Events section. Additionally, we will once again provide a virtual space for our Annual CAS Membership Meeting & Holiday Mixer on Dec. 4 at noon PST. The event will highlight important upcoming dates and events, as well as showcase committee chairs—and we'll have prizes! Most importantly, it will allow you to roam around a virtual reception area and visit with other attendees one-on-one or in small groups. Meanwhile, we are hard at work planning an in-person 58th Annual CAS Awards to be held Saturday, March 19, 2022, when we will return to the Wilshire Grand Ballroom at InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Los Angeles, California, to celebrate in style. Our awards submission form is now live on CinemaAudioSociety.org! Submit your entries and get excited to celebrate the year's outstanding achievements in sound mixing in-person with your CAS friends and colleagues. The past two years have taken Hollywood and our global industry on quite the journey. With the world health concerns forcing our audiences to consume media from the comfort of their homes, a large demand for work is keeping the majority of our members very busy, but unfortunately, has left many overworked and risking their safety. The health and safety of production and post-production crews around the world have been at the forefront of industry news, culminating recently with yet another devastating loss of life on set. The Cinema Audio Society supports the efforts of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) to attain safe working conditions, healthy hours, and compensation for entertainment workers everywhere. We stand with you in solidarity . Sincerely, Karol Urban CAS MPSE T H E P R E S I D E N T ' S L E T T E R To educate and inform the general public and the motion picture and television industry that effective sound is achieved by a creative, artistic, and technical blending of diverse sound elements. To provide the motion picture and television industry with a progressive society of master craftsmen specialized in the art of creative cinematic sound recording. To advance the specialized field of cinematic sound recording by exchange of ideas, methods, and information. To advance the art of auditory appreciation, and to philanthropically support those causes dedicated to the sense of hearing. To institute and maintain high standards of conduct and craftsmanship among our members. To aid the motion picture and television industry in the selection and training of qualified personnel in the unique field of cinematic sound recording. To achieve for our members deserved recognition as major contributors to the field of motion picture and television entertainment. WINTER 2022 CAS NEW MEMBERS Active Peter Albrechtsen CAS John Avarese CAS David Bowtle-McMillan CAS John Davidson CAS Ugo Derouard CAS Sam Ejnes CAS Lawrence Everson CAS Kevin Faber CAS Eric Hirsch CAS Timothia Sellers Hogan CAS Jim Lakin CAS Lawrence Manchester CAS Westley Moore CAS Michael Piotrowski CAS Gabriel Serrano CAS Academic Noah Dalluge Yuheng Liu Associate Michael Bailey Benjamin Barton Neil Bliss Jesse Ehredt Peter Prestrud Aaron Saddler Kenneth Wilkinson