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Kevin Hill CAS and the team at Studio Unknown have been busy with film festival screenings and many exciting projects in the pipeline this year so far. Here are some of the films that we have recently mixed that are moving onto festivals and distri- bution: Indivisible, a feature documentary that highlights immigration reform and the fight to reunite families separated by deportation; Here Comes Rusty, a feature narrative, starring Fred Willard & Joey Lauren Adams; SHU-DE! Let's Go, a very cool feature music documentary about a beat boxer who travels on a musical journey halfway around the world to Kyzyl, Tuva, where he collaborates and competes with some of the world's best throat singers; Between Us, which played at Tribeca Film Fest in April to sold-out audiences, starring Analeigh Tipton and Ben Feldman. Next up, a super fun comedy/horror called The Night Watchmen and the M&E for foreign distribution on A Haunting in Cawdor, star- ring Cary Elwes. Frank Morrone CAS and Craig Hunter CAS are mixing the pilot for MacGyver. Time to bring paper clips and duct tape to the stage. Steven A. Morrow CAS has just fin- ished Casual Season 2 for Hulu, with Craig Dollinger (boom) and Richard Bullock (utility). Craig and I will be on a feature this summer for Paramount called God Particle. Eric Batut CAS mixing Power Rangers for Lionsgate Film, with Dean Israelite direct- ing. Boom operator is Chris Higgins and sound assistant is Mesh Gutierrez. NBC Universal Studio Post: Mix Stage A: John Cook CAS and Bill Freesh CAS are mixing Season 5 of Veep for HBO, Season 3 of Brooklyn 99, Last Man Standing for ABC, Mister Robot for the USA network, and rounding out the schedule is Season 1 of Rush Hour, also for NBC. Mix Stage B: Nello Torri CAS and Alan Decker CAS are mixing Season 2 of Outlander for Starz, Season 5 of Grimm for NBC, and Season 4 of Bates Motel for A&E. Up ahead, the team will take on Taken and Emerald City for NBC, and Tyrant and Shots Fired for Fox. Season 6 of Homeland will start in September. Kevin Sands CAS is about halfway through the second season of UnREAL. My excellent team consists of Naan Spiess on boom and Stephen Hooper as wiring tech. We are very proud that our show has just been awarded a Peabody Award. Cheers to all. Karol Urban CAS MPSE is mixing Grey's Anatomy Season 12 for ABC and Kingdom for AT&T at Westwind Media. She also recently finished mixing Vimeo's Lonely and Horny at Urban Audio Post. Jay Patterson CAS, along with Tim Jones, Kris Manning, and Tom Pinney, just wrapped the pilot of the new MacGyver, for CBS. Technician Ross Levy, boom Rob Scott, and mixer Lori Dovi CAS just finished up three weeks of reshoots for Suicide Squad at Paramount and other locations. We shot in 60 mph horizontal rain … water- resistant everything! In addition to teaching university level courses in production sound as well as post sound/Pro Tools, Fred Ginsburg CAS can also be found instructing fellow professionals. During NAB, he taught all week on behalf of Audio Technica, sharing his many years of experience as a produc- tion sound mixer with show attendees. This summer, Fred will be presenting workshops on production sound and also on iZotope RX5 to fellow professors dur- ing the annual conference of the University Film & Video Association. Gary D. Rogers CAS and Dan Hiland CAS finished the sixth season of The Walking Dead for AMC, the third season of Turn Washington Spies for AMC, and are finishing up the fourth season of Arrow for The CW. They are currently mixing the Riverdale pilot for creator/ executive producer Greg Berlanti, and the untitled paranormal pilot for director David Nutter on Dub Stage 1 at Warner Bros. in Burbank. Glenn Berkovitz CAS and his muy fuerte crew of Randy Johnson and Denis Perez, are enjoying their time on set with a live-action family and their cartoon dad on Fox's Son of Zorn. Who knew that animated characters sweat into their radio mics just like human folks? Steve Nelson CAS, with the invaluable and indefatigable sup- port of Knox White and John Sheridan, is wrapping Season 3 of The Last Ship. I've never done a Season 3 before. This is all new to me! This show just gets bigger and more challenging. It is hard but never boring. We are super fortunate to have a terrific crew and a wonderful cast. Thanks to John for getting us going on Mary+Jane, an MTV comedy that will take me up to my cycling trip in the Dordogne, in the south of France. After that ... who knows? We're excited about the opening of Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping, the Lonely Island mockumentary we did last year. Wishing you all a wonderful summer! Don Hale CAS has been busy mixing and recording for a wide variety of shows and projects the past months: a number of shoots for CBS's 60 Minutes, which includ- ed a location in Squaw Valley, CA, with extreme skier and adventure sports athlete, JT Holmes, along with Anderson Cooper and Colorado-based sound mixer Drew Levinson assisting in the mix, CBS Sunday Morning profiles with Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, and songwriter Diane Warren, com- mercials for Squarespace shot in North San Diego County, a Foodsaver commercial for RCA Films in Laguna Beach, a Land Rover spot shooting in Northern California, a Tempur-Pedic commercial with Rocky Reilly booming, the PBS show NOVA on "Schools of the Future in San Diego and Goleta, CA," the TV pilot Limelight, a variety of NBC Olympic profiles, ABC's 20/20 on The Church of Scientology, and a National Geographic documentary in partnership with The Surfrider Foundation about strategies for saving our world's oceans in the coming years Steve Bowerman CAS, Mick Davies, and Jeffrey C. Hefner have wrapped Season 13 of NCIS and look toward Season 14, beginning in July. Many thanks to Thomas Popp, Steve Klinghoffer, Mike Riordan, George Flores CAS, Devin Golub, and Kenn Fuller for all the assists and a big welcome to a new bright star in our audio world, David Macmillan. 48 S P R I N G 2 0 1 6 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y