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24 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Winter 2023 Drew Kunin is a Production Sound Mixer with a wide range of international locations and projects. To name a few; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Adaptation (2002), Lost in Translation (2003), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), Mank (2020), for which he received his third Oscar nomination, plus In the Heights (2021), and The Whale (2022). I caught up with Drew while he and his wife were on vacation in Portugal where we discussed his work on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, his second feature for Director Rian Johnson, and the sequel to Knives Out (2019). Drew had wrapped The Killer for David Fincher and was getting some needed away time before starting May December for Todd Haynes. Drew describes Rian Johnson, the Director of Glass Onion, this way, "He's really smart and really cinema-savvy, with an encyclopedic knowledge of modern movies. He's a cinephile in a way that's truly fun. He's enjoyable to be around, he does a lot of homework, and comes ready, every day. He knows what each shot's for and how the scene's cutting together." Drew continues, "The Producer, Tom Karnowski, was the Producer on The Post, a Steven Spielberg film that I had also been the mixer on. That was a show that involved some huge scenes with lots of characters talking. There were scenes with sixteen people, eighteen people speaking. There were long, very busy, very talky scenes that went from room to room to Glass Onion: A Kn