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21 around the bend. Reluctant, because of their dark history, he's tasked with escorting Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), a dying Cheyenne and his fam- ily from New Mexico to the tribal grasslands of Montana. As the discordant group journeys from the isolated Army outpost of Fort Berringer, they encounter the widow Quaid, and later, the hostile Comanche. In order to survive the 1,000-mile trip, they're forced to confront their preconceived notions of one another and band together in a story of compassion and tolerance that tests the resilience of the human spirit and our wiliness to change. Production Sound Mixer José Antonio García, alongside Boom Operator Jonathan Fuh and Sound Utilities Daniel Duerre and Daniel Carlton, captured the audio to the location-based shoot. Both Local 695 members, García and Fuh have been a team for decades now. "We met twenty- eight years ago on a low-budget, nonunion proj- ect," recalls Fuh. "His boom operator at the time didn't show up and the UPM gave José my num- ber to call. The rest is history." Clockwise from top: Ryan Bingham, Pike, Bale, Wes Studi, Tanaya Beatty, Adam Beach and Q'orianka Kilcher in Hostiles; sound positions its mobile Gator rig on location; Fuh with his wireless boom outside the Quaid household.