Presenting the Sounding Board v.5.0!
The Sounding Board v5.0 was a co-produced event between CAS and MPSE on November 2nd 2025 from 9am-7:30pm PT at Loyola Marymount University, Westchester Campus, Los Angeles, CA. A day of in-person discussions about the practical, creative, and technical art of sound for picture, and the new Hands On Lab: Wiring and Clean Up.
Opening Remarks
Following breakfast CAS Executive Officer Lindsey Alvarez CAS and MPSE President David Barber MPSE opened the day thanking Professor Roy Finch and the School of Film and Television for their work with Dean Moore, and their partnership in helping the event to grow and find a new home at Loyola Marymount University.
They concluded their remarks with the presentation of a check to Bernard Weiser MPSE, President of EIPMA.
The Entertainment Industry Professionals Mentoring Alliance, an organization close to the hearts of both the CAS and MPSE organizations. Established after the passing of industry veteran Paul Rodriguez who gave his time and experience so generously to those wanting to learn. EIPMA’s mission, to give career guidance for individuals seeking craft and technical careers in the entertainment industry, is aligned with that of both the MPSE and the CAS.
Weiser, responded that as founding organizations CAS & MPSE have been instrumental in the growth and continued service of EIPMA and the Check for $4150, would enable many of the upcoming years endeavors.
Table of Contents
Surviving AI!
Jillian Arnold
IATSE’s AI Subcommittee Chair & President of Local 695
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Jillian Arnold IATSE’s AI Subcommittee Chair & President of Local 695
and is the co-chair of IATSE’s AI and Emerging Technology Subcommittee. She became the first woman elected president of IATSE Local 695 in the union’s ninety-five-year history. Jillian consults on international bargaining unit contracts in the AI space and is a guest speaker at events around the globe. She focuses on technical solutions that create a toolbox for our labor workforce, while considering contractual policy in mind and the broader scope of the next generation of television and film production.
Jillian started her career as a camera engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she contributed to multiple missions across our solar system.
In her career, Jillian refers to herself as “The Artist Formerly Known as The Tape Operator.” As an award-winning video engineer, Jillian specializes in recording workflow engineering, digital acquisition, and media management for live television. These shows include MTV VMAs, The Emmys, The Oscars, Grease Live, NFL Honors, and more.
Jillian started her career as a camera engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she contributed to multiple missions across our solar system.
In her career, Jillian refers to herself as “The Artist Formerly Known as The Tape Operator.” As an award-winning video engineer, Jillian specializes in recording workflow engineering, digital acquisition, and media management for live television. These shows include MTV VMAs, The Emmys, The Oscars, Grease Live, NFL Honors, and more.
David Barber CAS MPSE
MPSE President
Re-recording Mixer
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Asher J. Pink
Co-Chair MPEG Emerging Technology Committee
Picture Editor and VFX Editor
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Asher Pink is an editor and VFX editor with a formal education in film production and business, complemented by self-taught programming knowledge. Passionate about the intersection of creativity and technology, he co-chairs the Motion Picture Editors Guild Emerging Technology Committee.
Rachel Stilwell
Stilwell Law
Entertainment & Intellectual Property Lawyer
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Rachel’s law practice focuses on entertainment, intellectual property and employment law with an emphasis on music transactions. She advises and negotiates on behalf of businesses and creative professionals on complex intellectual property matters. Rachel is proud to have been named to Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers List for the last seven consecutive years.
Rachel’s clients include multiple GRAMMY-winning recording artists, record producers, songwriters, pro audio stakeholders, and independent record labels. Her clients include the musicFIRST Coalition, which is comprised of the Recording Academy, the Latin Recording Academy, R.I.A.A., A2IM, American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, SoundExchange, Society of Singers, Christian Music Trade Association, Music Managers Forum, the Vocal Group, and the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. Rachel served as Co-Chair of the Recording Academy Los Angeles Chapter’s Advocacy Committee for the last two years and also serves on the national advocacy committee of the Songwriters of North America. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Future of Music Coalition, a nonprofit music advocacy think tank.
Making Music Sing On Set
Paul Massey CAS
Re-Recording Mixer & Music Mixer
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Paul Massey is an English Re-Recording Dialogue and Music Mixer based in Southern California. He started his career recording and mixing music, both in studios and live while touring with bands including Yes, The Police, and Supertramp.
He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound and has worked on 250-plus films since 1982. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing in 2019 for Bohemian Rhapsody and in 2022 he received the Cinema Audio Society’s Career Achievement Award at the 58th annual CAS Awards.
He has also won four BAFTA Awards with a total of ten nominations, plus seven CAS Awards with a total of twelve nominations.
Jeff Zimmerman
ProTools Playback Mixer
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A Bold Beautiful Journey, Hocus Pocus 2, Welcome to Chippendales
Fei Yu
Music Editor
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The Eight Hundred, A Writer’s Odyssey, Ping Pong: The Triumph
Fei Yu is an award-winning music producer, supervisor, recording engineer and music editor for film and video games, known for her unique ability to navigate the inherent challenges that come with international creative collaboration. Yu’s work has garnered high praise from elite industry professionals in both China and the U.S., and she regularly works with some of the world’s most esteemed composers and artists including Andrea Bocelli, Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Tyler Bates, Rupert Gregson-Williams ,etc.
A graduate of Beijing Film Academy in her native China, Yu was recruited by China Film Group Corporation where she spent three years working as a recording engineer. She later received her master’s degree from the internationally-renowned program in Sound Recording at Canada’s McGill University, where she became the first Chinese graduate. While at McGill she won two gold awards from the student recording competition of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), an international society devoted exclusively to audio technology. She was the first woman and the first Asian to become a two-time gold award recipient. Her recent accolades include the 68th Golden Reel Award for Best Foreign Language Film and 34th Golden Rooster Award nomination for Best Music, among others.
Yu is the founder and CEO of Dream Studios, which provides comprehensive, tailor-made music services for film, television, and video games. Her goal is to bring the talent and expertise of Western composers and artists to the emerging Chinese film market.
Chris Welcker CAS
Glen Glenn Film Center
Production Mixer
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Credits include: Sinners, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Daisy Jones & The Six.
Chris Welcker CAS is an Emmy award winning production sound mixer with roots in New Orleans and a background in jazz performance. After working in commercial scoring, he transitioned into film and television, rising through the ranks under the mentorship of Oscar winner Kirk Francis. His credits include Keanu, Rebel Ridge, The Dirt, Bill & Ted Face the Music, and Daisy Jones & the Six, which earned him both an Emmy Award and a Cinema Audio Society Awards nomination.
Recent projects include the IMAX 70mm feature Sinners and the musical comedy sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, where his music-focused approach and collaborative mindset have helped shape the sound of each production. Chris continues to pursue work that blends musicality with the craft of cinematic storytelling.
Amanda Beggs CAS
Vice President CAS
Production Mixer
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Amanda Beggs CAS has been working as a production sound mixer in Los Angeles for almost 20 years and works on both features and television. She’s been honored with two CAS Award nominations and two Emmy nominations. She is currently the Vice President of the Cinema Audio Society, an executive board member of IATSE Local 695, and a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the TV Academy. Most recent projects include the movie Him, currently in theatres, and Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water.
Say What 2
Marc Fishman CAS
Re-recording Mixer
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3 Body Problem, The Last of Us, Lovecraft Country
Marc has been a re-recording mixer for almost 30 years and currently works for Warner Brothers Post Production Creative Services.
He is a 2 time Prime Time Emmy award winner and have also been nominated for 5 Cinema Audio Society awards, with one win.
Select credits include: “I Love LA,” “IT: Welcome To Derry,” “The Last of Us,” “Lovecraft Country,” “John Adams” and “The Sympathizer” for HBO, “3 Body Problem” and “Daredevil (2015)” for Netflix, the series “Hunters,” “The Bondsman” and “Carnival Row” for Amazon, “Little Fires Everywhere” for Hulu, “Mayfair Witches (season 2)” for AMC, and “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” for NBC.
Marc is a proud member of the Cinema Audio Society, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television. Academy.
Jon Greasley CAS, MPSE
Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,
The Twits, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Jon Greasley CAS, MPSE is a sound designer, re-recording mixer, and general noisemaker with 15+ years of experience designing and mixing for film, TV, and streaming. He been a featured speaker for the AES Convention, CAS/MPSE Sounding Board, Mix Magazine, and Grammy Museum events, is an AES and ATSC contributor on the topic of loudness standards and dialogue intelligibility, and has written multiple articles for the CAS Quarterly and MPSE Wavelength. He has been nominated for an Emmy, two MPSE Golden Reels, and a HPA Award. His credits include Abigail, The Twits, The Woman in the Yard, Godzilla x Kong, Kung Fu Panda 4, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, The Orville, Ted, and Cosmos: Possible Worlds.
Jeff Riedmiller
Dolby Laboratories
VP of Advanced Media Systems
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Jeffrey Riedmiller is a Dolby Fellow and Vice President in the Advanced Technology Group where he leads global teams focused on advancing next generation media experiences powered by cloud and network technologies. With over 35 years in media technology and creative industries, his technology creations have been recognized with several Emmy Awards for the research and development of dialogue-based loudness measurement and control, network-based audio coding and processing, and compressed domain processing of media. Jeffrey is also a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) and has published extensively in AES, SMPTE, IEEE, NCTA, and NAB, and is inventor/co-inventor on more than 50 patent families in the areas of multimedia signal processing, loudness measurement and control, multisource (network) coding of media, and related media systems.
Brian Slack
Glen Glenn Film Center
Director of Technical Operations
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After 39 years of working on movies, Brian Slack has done almost every job in Post Sound including ADR mixing, Rerecording Mixing, Music Editing, and Sound Supervision. Even as a CAS Award winner, with 4 patents and a history in many sound facilities, he is mostly known for his technical positions. Having been at DTS, Sony, Digital Sound and Picture, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Widget Post, Iosono, Wildfire , Todd-AO, and Deluxe Media, Brian is now Director of Technical Operations for The Glen Glenn Film Center.
Record & Catalogue
Ken Cain
Sound Editor and Library Producer
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Based in Southern California, Ken Cain has spent two decades shaping sound for film, television, and advertising. Since moving to L.A. in 2002, he has worked across nearly every aspect of post-production sound—from Dialogue / ADR to sound effects, Foley, and mixing—earning an Emmy in 2024 for his Foley editing on Shōgun. His credits include The Walking Dead, Invasion, and Tour de Pharmacy, with collaborations spanning Warner Bros., Universal, and beyond. A co-founder of Sound Brigade, Ken also produces commercial sound effects libraries that blend his love for field recording, experimentation, and creative sound design.
Travis Prater
Re-Recording Mixer & Supervsing Sound Editor
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Travis Prater is an award-winning Re-Recording Mixer and Field Recordist with more than a decade of experience shaping sound for film, games, and advertising. His credits include the feature Gran Turismo and campaigns for brands like Pennzoil, Red Bull, and BMW. Travis thrives on collaboration and the creative challenge of telling stories through sound.
Talent Forward
Doc Kane CAS
Walt Disney Studios
ADR Mixer
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Doc Kane has been a Sound Mixer at the Walt Disney Studios for over 35 Years and has credits on over 350 Films. In 2016 Doc received the CAS Career Achievement Award.
Is The Mix Track Dead?
Peter J. Devlin CAS
Production Mixer
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Peter Devlin has assembled an eclectic body of work as a Production Mixer. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Devlin came to the United States in 1987 after having worked for the Audio Department at BBC Northern Ireland. He has worked with a varied group of filmmakers throughout his career, including Kenneth Branagh, Oliver Stone, and Ron Howard.
Dody Dorn
Film Editor
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A native of Santa Monica, California, Dorn graduated from Hollywood High School. At the outset of her career, she worked mainly as a sound editor, before moving into film editing in the 1990s. She has collaborated on projects with James Cameron (THE ABYSS – as Supervising Sound Editor) and as Film Editor for Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) Ridley Scott (Kingdom of Heaven, Matchstick Men) Baz Luhrmann (Australia) Mike White (Year of the Dog, Enlightened) David Ayer (End of Watch, Fury) Zack Snyder (Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Rebel Moon) Timur Bekmambetov (Ben Hur, Mercy) and is currently working on David Ayer’s feature film for Paramount, Heart of the Beast starring Brad Pitt.
Dorn resides with her husband, retired prop master Kevin Hughes and their 2 adorable dogs Oscar and Cleo in Echo Park.
Bryan Parker MPSE
Supervising Sound Editor
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He has worked in storytelling since his first job at the age of 14, running sound and lights for a theater in his hometown in Ohio. With a drive for seeking out elegant solutions under ever-changing constraints, he worked in live sound reinforcement and recorded bands through college. He was then presented with a new challenge and offered an opportunity to enter the realm of sound for picture in Los Angeles. Bryan has worked in both broadcast and features, coming up at first through the fast-paced world of nonfiction television and then on to more creative film projects. For over 15 years he has customized his approach and workflow to each project’s unique needs. He is especially interested in the musicality and nuance of human speech, in the expressive power of different vehicle engines and in the way background sounds shape emotion and steer expectation.
Is The Mix Track Dead?
Peter J. Devlin CAS
Production Mixer
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Peter Devlin has assembled an eclectic body of work as a Production Mixer. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Devlin came to the United States in 1987 after having worked for the Audio Department at BBC Northern Ireland. He has worked with a varied group of filmmakers throughout his career, including Kenneth Branagh, Oliver Stone, and Ron Howard.
Mike Babcock CAS MPSE
Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
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A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), The Cinema Audio Society (CAS),and The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), 2025 marks his 29th year as a re-recording mixer/sound designer/supervising sound editor.
Tommy Aagaard
Picture Editor
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Tommy Aagaard is a Los Angeles-based film editor and post-production specialist whose work spans from major studio blockbusters to independent features. He has cultivated a versatile career, initially mastering the intricate demands of large-scale visual effects productions as a first assistant editor on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and many others before stepping into the role of Editor on multiple films such as Aftermath, 47 Meters Down: The Wreck and Fall 2.
Let’s work together
Phong Chau
Sony Post Production
Post-Production Sr. Systems Engineer
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At Sony’s Post Production Facility, Phong specializing in secure, high-performance infrastructure that powers today’s most demanding 24/7 production environments. With a B.S. in Business Information Technology Management, he designs and maintains systems that integrate network engineering, audio/visual technology, and rigorous information security protocols to safeguard sensitive content. Phong is also at the forefront of enabling remote workflows—building reliable, scalable solutions that allow creative teams to collaborate seamlessly from anywhere in the world. A former Marine Musician with the U.S. Marine Band, he brings a unique blend of discipline, precision, and technical innovation to every project, whether in the studio, on location, or supporting FOH operations.
Justin Herman
Sony Post Production
Supervising Post Production Sound
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The Supervising Engineer of the re-recording mix stages at Sony Pictures Post Production Services, where he supports hundreds of feature films and helps drive the expansion of immersive Dolby Atmos facilities. Beyond Sony’s labels (Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems, and Sony Pictures Animation), he works on projects for Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, and Disney.
Prior to Sony, Justin advanced Dolby Atmos adoption at Dolby Laboratories, refining processes that set new standards in cinematic and streaming audio. He has been instrumental in developing Sony’s 360 Virtual Mixing Environment (VME), a breakthrough technology offering flexible, immersive audio workflows.
Justin’s passion lies in enabling filmmakers to realize their creative visions seamlessly—from concept to delivery. By creating trustworthy mix stages and minimizing technical barriers, he ensures storytellers can focus on their craft while maintaining their original creative intent.
Jimmy Fusil
Consultant
Media Technology
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A media technologist and consultant specializing in film and television production, postproduction and distribution. He has managed industry transitions at the nexus of creative experimentation, technological advancement and business transformation for Technicolor, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Netflix.
While at Technicolor, Jimmy facilitated the transition from film to digital image acquisition. At Sony, he oversaw the design and execution of 4K picture post-production workflows, and supported the maiden voyages of new professional technologies. At Netflix, Jimmy led the Creative Technologies team responsible for advancing the development and adoption of production sound and imaging tools, standards, and techniques, such as Dolby Vision and Atmos. Jimmy also oversaw the engineering of the studio’s global screening, premiere and production lab systems, notably collaborating with Sony and Meyer Sound to develop the Ultra Reflex system.
Hands On Lab
Chris Polczinski CAS
Production Mixer
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Based in Los Angeles and an active member of CAS and the TV Academy. Originally from Ohio, his passion for sound began as a musician, tinkering with radios, and building microphones, speakers, and acoustic treatments for his home studio. He launched his professional career as a foley artist before transitioning to production sound where he fell in love with the energy of being on set. Chris’s mixing credits include “Fall,” “Queen of the Ring,” “The Art of Self Defense” and more.
Korey Pereira MPSE
Dialogue Editor
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Hands On Lab
Chris Polczinski CAS
Production
Mixer
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Based in Los Angeles and an active member of CAS and the TV Academy. Originally from Ohio, his passion for sound began as a musician, tinkering with radios, and building microphones, speakers, and acoustic treatments for his home studio. He launched his professional career as a foley artist before transitioning to production sound where he fell in love with the energy of being on set. Chris’s mixing credits include “Fall,” “Queen of the Ring,” “The Art of Self Defense” and more.
Jamie Hardt MPSE CAS
Re-Recording Mixer
& Sound Designer
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25 years of experience in motion picture and television post-production. His recent mixing credits include Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” and “Dahmer” limited series, as well as “Say Nothing” for FX; he currently mixes “Fire Country” and “Sheriff Country” for CBS. Jamie has contributed to nearly 200 projects over his career, sound effects editing on films including “The Hurt Locker”, “Fury”, “Zero Dark Thirty”, and “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and has supervised several features including “Fantasy Island”, “Insidious: The Last Key” and “Truth or Dare.” Jamie grew up in Minnesota and moved to Los Angeles to earn his BA in Cinema-Television Production from the USC School for Cinematic Arts 1997. He has two primetime Emmy nominations, four Golden Reel nominations and one CAS Award nomination.
Hands On Lab
Jamie Hardt MPSE CAS
Re-Recording Mixer
& Sound Designer
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25 years of experience in motion picture and television post-production. His recent mixing credits include Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” and “Dahmer” limited series, as well as “Say Nothing” for FX; he currently mixes “Fire Country” and “Sheriff Country” for CBS. Jamie has contributed to nearly 200 projects over his career, sound effects editing on films including “The Hurt Locker”, “Fury”, “Zero Dark Thirty”, and “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and has supervised several features including “Fantasy Island”, “Insidious: The Last Key” and “Truth or Dare.” Jamie grew up in Minnesota and moved to Los Angeles to earn his BA in Cinema-Television Production from the USC School for Cinematic Arts 1997. He has two primetime Emmy nominations, four Golden Reel nominations and one CAS Award nomination.
Blas Kisić CAS
Production
Mixer
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Born in Venezuela, where he earned a BA in Mass Media, after which he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. He’s been blessed with a rich career in commercials, documentaries such as “Arnold” and “Dear Mama”, and television –of which perhaps his best-known work is in Jury Duty– as well as a number of comedy specials by Neal Brennan, Lil Rel Howery and Howie Mandel, among others. Mainly, though, Blas is a family man who leaves a bit of time for motorcycles, Formula One, photography, woodworking and Tottenham Hotspur (in no particular order.)
Hands On Lab
Blas Kisić CAS
Production Mixer
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Born in Venezuela, where he earned a BA in Mass Media, after which he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. He’s been blessed with a rich career in commercials, documentaries such as “Arnold” and “Dear Mama”, and television –of which perhaps his best-known work is in Jury Duty– as well as a number of comedy specials by Neal Brennan, Lil Rel Howery and Howie Mandel, among others. Mainly, though, Blas is a family man who leaves a bit of time for motorcycles, Formula One, photography, woodworking and Tottenham Hotspur (in no particular order.)
Korey Pereira MPSE
Dialogue Editor
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