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2 S P R I N G 2 0 2 3 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Greeting Friends, This year's 59th CAS Awards promises to be an extraordinary affair. On March 4, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, we will celebrate Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2022 and the incredible force of nature, Peter J. Devlin CAS, our Career Achievement recipient. We will also honor Alejandro González Iñárritu as our Filmmaker of the Year. Alejandro's dedication to relaying universal truths of the human condition through sound is exemplary. Personally, the 59th CAS Awards will signify a bittersweet moment as I will conclude my second term and pass the gavel to a new CAS president. There are no words to draw on to express my gratitude for the trust you have bestowed upon me in this critical role. It has been an honor. Since receiving the gavel from Mark Ulano CAS, your CAS Board of Directors, Committee Chairs, volunteers, team of dedicated vendors, and I have worked tirelessly to continue guiding CAS in a positive direction. In 2023, we stand greater in numbers with a greater diversity of experience covering a larger geographical footprint. In addition, we have increased educational and networking events, contributions to charities, and co-productions with other nonprofits. Beyond our flourishing CAS Quarterly and podcast series In Conversation, we now offer a YouTube channel and CAS Mixer Merch, so our members can display their pride in membership. There is magic in an organization created by sound mixers for sound mixers. We thrive as a result of our volunteer community, ensuring a legacy for the future. Kindness, community, and mentorship are critical keystones. As president, I have had a front-row seat to the boundless offerings that a community such as the CAS can provide when we rally together. Watching our community endure a pandemic made clear that to rise above challenges, we must be passionate about life, respond to scarcity with generosity, fear with gratitude, and seek to instill a sense of fellowship when we may feel isolated and estranged. We earn our success from effective service to others, not at their expense. There is no challenge we cannot overcome if we remain determined to lift each other up. We must endeavor to assume the best of each other, ask questions, welcome queries, and seek solutions collaboratively to garner success in our mixes and lives. Being your president will undoubtedly be one of the greatest honors I will experience. I hope, in all sincerity, that I increased the value and relevancy of the Cinema Audio Society to you during my tenure. With a new policy of term limits imposed on all directors, a new Board, made up of more new directors than ever, will usher in a new generation of ideas building upon what we have created together thus far. As you complete your ballots, contemplate what you want to see in the Cinema Audio Society, and choose your representatives with care and thought. Consider contributing yourself. Express yourself to your Board. When we align our collective intentions with action, we hold power to manifest greatness. "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."—Ryunosuke Satoro Respectfully, 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 2023 CAS NEW MEMBERS Active Andrew Kantos Dustin Fleetwood Gary DeLeone George Foulgham Hitendra Ghosh James Parnell Johnathan Thomas Phillip DeTolve Shawn Miller Shayna Brown William Miller Academic Derick Duverger Levi Sanil Associate Andy Yip Anne Jimkes-Root Hilarion (Larry) Dimayuga Stanley Gilman CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY MISSION STATEMENT T H E P R E S I D E N T ' S L E T T E R