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www.postmagazine.com 1 POST FEBRUARY 2016 ON OUR COVER 2 EDITOR'S LETTER What's cooking in reality TV By Linda Romanello 2 THE ONLINE A virtual Sundance experience By Marc Loftus 4 BITS & PIECES What's new in post production 12 FILMMAKING Christian Ditter: How To Be Single By Linda Romanello 14 PRIMETIME Amazon's The Man in the High Castle By Marc Loftus 16 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Roar Uthaug: The Wave By Iain Blair 38 PRODUCTS The latest in hardware and software 40 BUSINESS Big Block Media carves out a place of its own 41 AUDIO Solving the upmix challenge By Jacques Boulanger 42 FIELD TESTED Alchemist XF supports creative post at WorleyWorks By Jack Reynolds 43 POSTINGS A graphic glimpse of some recent work 44 REVIEW Video Devices' Pix-E5 By MJ Foley 46 REVIEW Blackmagic Design Cintel Film Scanner By Keenan J. Mock 47 REVIEW Pro Sound Effects' 'NYC Ambisonics' By Brady Betzel 48 PEOPLE Keeping tabs of the industry's movers & shakers SERVING THE INDUSTRY SINCE 1986 VOL 31 · NO. 2 THIS MONTH IN • Spotlight on VR head-mounted displays • Making sci-fi magic for Star Wars: The Force Awakens • VR presents new challenges for game developers • Pushing the CG boundaries in Kung Fu Panda 3 • Digital water challenges for In the Heart of the Sea DEPARTMENTS 14 The Man In The High Castle FEATURES 18 OSCAR BUZZ The Revenant sound design nominee Lon Bender By Linda Romanello Mad Max: Fury Road sound editing nominee Mark Mangini By Marc Loftus Star Wars: The Force Awakens picture editor nominees Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey By Linda Romanello 22 FROM HEAVEN TO HELL Reality TV spans geographical and philosophical borders By Christine Bunish 30 ARCTIC BLAST For Norm of the North, Splash Entertainment proves that ingenuity and determination can lead to success By Karen Moltenbrey 34 INDIE FILMS FRONT AND CENTER Giving dialogue proper respect in story-driven projects By Jennifer Walden WWW.POSTMAGAZINE.COM WEB EXCLUSIVES • FILM: Operation Avalanche • MUSIC VIDEO: Eliot Lewis' Soundtrack • REVIEW: VAIO Z canvas • VFX: The Birth of a Nation Fox's Hell's Kitchen 34 22 30 Hell's Kitchen Norm of the North Swiss Army Man