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2 S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Dear Friends, Happy New Year! We hope you all were able to recharge and safely visit, if even only digitally, with friends and family. As we all brace against the newest variant, Omicron, I encourage everyone to follow CDC recommendations and be vigilant in protecting your health and the health of your crews and productions. Nomination voting for the 58th CAS Awards has concluded and the nominees determined. Please take a moment to watch and listen to the nominees as you prepare to vote for your selections. Final voting begins Thursday, February 24, 2022, and concludes at 5 pm PST, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Please make sure to check your inboxes for individual credentials to vote online. Meanwhile, we are hard at work planning for an in-person 58th Annual CAS Awards to be held Saturday, March 19, 2022, when we will return to the Wilshire Grand Ballroom at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Los Angeles, California, to celebrate in style. Preparations for this event are progressing with close attention to changing safety conditions. You can rest assured that the event will only take place physically if we can ensure a safe enjoyable environment for all in attendance. But, as of this letter, a physical event is planned and highly anticipated. In the interim, I am thrilled to announce that the Cinema Audio Society has hit a milestone! We now have over 1,000 members spanning the globe. And what an exciting time to be a CAS member! We have added virtual events to our media services, which include our CAS Quarterly, podcast, and YouTube channel. Our participation in educational events and with other non-profit industry partners continues to flourish. The CAS is growing and continues to impress. All of these wonderful things happen due to the contributions of volunteer Board members, committee chairs, committee members, and individual member contributions. Please consider joining a committee or volunteering for the CAS to reap the full benefits of what our society has to offer. Many have found it an incredibly rewarding experience, myself included. I have met some of my best friends, improved my knowledge of my craft and adjacent crafts, and found unique professional opportunities. To learn more about our organizational needs and opportunities to get involved, please reach out to CASPresident@CinemaAudioSociety.org. As always, we are looking forward to finding more ways to serve the community and raise awareness of our craft and its impact in storytelling within the industry at large. Reach out, and let us know how we can serve you. Sincerely, Karol Urban CAS MPSE 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. SPRING 2022 CAS NEW MEMBERS Active Miguel Araujo CAS Kristian Bailey CAS Ben Baird CAS Ron Bartlett CAS Ian Chase CAS Leslie Gaston-Bird CAS Eric Lamontagne CAS Matt Yocum CAS Academic Lily Adams David Bonilla Justin Joseph Clark Solnes Hampas Kara Lange Associate Charles German Steve William Gonzalez Phillip Jackson Alana Knutson Sean McDonald Steve Neal Tony Perez Dorothea Sargent Marco Vargas CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY MISSION STATEMENT T H E P R E S I D E N T ' S L E T T E R