Jen Senko was in the studio last week mixing her new documentary feature in surround sound. The film is called "The Brainwashing of my Dad" and it investigates right-wing talk radio. Long-time friend of Dubway, Jeff Formosa, was the mixing engineer.
Her new film was the winner of both the 2015 Bertha Foundation Film Grant and the Roy W. Dean Film Grant in 2014. To learn more, check out the website here.
Last week, our team was busy handling some sound design work for the new international Airbnb campaign. And it definitely gave us a travel bug! Sam Palumbo engineered.
Butter the Children
We're proud to announce that "SongCraft Presents" received an Emmy nomination! Dubway's owner, Al Houghton, was one of the producers on the project and attended the ceremony at the Folk Alliance International fest in St. Louis last week on behalf of the rest of the team, which includes Ben Arthur, Mike Crehore, Matthew Hendershot, Rob Reinhart, Steve Poltz, Dave Simmons, and Justin Bond.
"SongCraft Presents" was featured in the Arts & Entertainment Programs/Special category, and the Emmy ceremony was shown on Kansas City's public television station KCPT.
Al Houghton and Ben Arthur
"SongCraft Presents" is a web series in which featured artists write and record a song in the course of a day with host Ben Arthur. Producers Al Houghton and Mike Crehore then take the song and shape it into a polished studio track. Featured artists on "SongCraft Presents" have included Lera Lynn, Ben Sollee, Sean Rowe, Ximena Sarinana, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), Vienna Tang, Steve Poltz, and many others.
"SongCraft Presents" is currently working on a year-long multi-format project, Songs of the Road, sponsored by Ford and produced with the syndicated radio program Acoustic Cafe.
This past week we were doing post work for the digital network, Flama and their new show "First Taste Fridays" with director Kristopher Knight.
Flama is all about comedy and culture, and aims to capture and celebrate the Latino spirit.
We were on set all day in Queens at a Habitat for Humanity event with the cast of "Blue Bloods." Rashid Ramkissoon was the A1, handling interviews all day while mixing and booming. The cast of the show was hard at work building houses! Great work!
The podcast style program on WBUR will feature actors reading these "Modern Love" essays, like Dakota Fanning. Dubway is handling the voiceover recording for the program.
WBUR, Boston's NPR, is partnering with the New York Times to bring the well-known column "Modern Love" to public radio. In the New York Times, "Modern Love" is a series of weekly reader-submitted essays that explore the joys and the tribulations of love.
We recently finished working on the mix for "Angel of Nanjing." The film premiered at the Phoenix Film Festival where it won for best documentary and the first ever Sidney K. Shapiro Humanitarian Award. It also won best documentary at the Roving Eye Film Festival, the Long Island International Film Expo, and Catalina Film Festival. In addition, it won the 1st Place Humanitarian Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Montelupo Fiorintino International Independent Film Festival.
"Angel of Nanjing" is about a man named Chen Si, who has been patrolling the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China for the past 11 years. The bridge is the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. Incredibly, Chen Si's efforts to patrol the bridge and provide aid for those who've gone there to end their lives have resulted in saving 300 lives since he began - nearly one every two weeks. For more information about the film and where to see it, check out the site at angelofnanjing.com.
We also recently finished the mix for the film "Collegetown." The film investigates college culture in the US and dissects the social and financial factors that determine career choices made by graduates. Keep your eyes peeled for this one!
Dubway recently worked on ADR for two LionTV shows "Blood Feuds" and "Deadly Devotion."
New series "Blood Feuds" will premiere on Discovery's American Heroes Channel this fall and tells the story of a blood feud between family and business. "Deadly Devotion" features true stories of everyday people who live within America's unique subcultures and secret societies, and it airs on the Investigation Discovery network.
Mark Ruffalo was here yesterday recording commentary for his new film "Infinitely Polar Bear" with engineer Jake Bolles.
"Infinitely Polar Bear" tells the story of a bipolar individual (Mark Ruffalo) who takes over sole responsibility for his two spirited daughters while his wife (Zoe Saldana) attends graduate school in New York. For more information about the film, check out the website and trailer.
Mark Ruffalo and Jake Bolles
Rashid Ramkissoon and Mona Scott-Young
Dubway engineer Rashid Ramkissoon was on location today with Mona Scott-Young (Love & Hip Hop/ Monami Entertainment) filming a new doc for BET called Being Mona Scott.
Left to right: Sarah Thyre, Amy Poehler, Julie Klausner, Susan Orlean
Renowned writers, producers, and performers, Amy Poehler and Julie Klausner, were in Dubway recently to record the latest episode of the Crybabies podcast with Susan Orlean and Sarah Thyre.
Poehler and Klausner recently collaborated on the Hulu series "Difficult People." During the podcast, they discuss Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George," Bette Midler's "The Rose," Anita Hill, Terms of Endearment. Check out the full episode here!
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Scottish television and film star, David Tennant (Broadchurch, Gracepoint, Dr. Who, and the upcoming Netflix series, Jessica Jones), spent a couple of hours in the studio for a BBC radio interview. Clive Brill of Brill Productions, UK hosted, and Dubway's own Rashid Ramkissoon engineered.
Jeremy Shamos and Julie Ann Emery were in studio today recording commentary for the AMC original series Better Call Saul. Rashid Ramkissoon manned the controls!
Jeremy Shamos, Rashid Ramkissoon and Julie Ann Emery
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Chris Montgomery, of our production audio team, was on location in NYC, recording for a film about transgender model Andreja Pejic. Directed by Eric Miclette.
Actor, singer, comedian Mandy Patinkin spent a few hours with engineer Chris Montgomery, recording voice over for Nina's World, the animated preschool series on NBC Sprout.
Dubway is responsible for the location recording of Season Two of Pivot's reality TV series, Human Resources. Having successfully handled the sound for Season One, Seth Granger, head of Dubway's location team, is responsible for the audio capture going forward into the new season.
Lion TV UK directed Michelle De Swarte from across the pond, via our Source Connect technology, for an upcoming new broadcast, World of Weird.
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Katherine Jenkins, lyric mezzo-soprano and songwriter, was in the studio conducting back to back radio interviews, broadcast live on the BBC.
Ms. Jenkins, a popular classical-crossover singer, performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. The trans-Atlantic connection was conducted via ISDN.
The audio post mix for The CE reality show has been going on in Dubway's 5.1 surround sound suite. Jon Tropea is the mix master, as the competitors' shears thrust and parry.
Actor Ed Westwick came in for a few hours to perform ADR with his director, Aram Rappaport (in London), for the upcoming thriller, A Conspiracy on Jeckyll Island. The film also stars Frank Grillo, Dianna Agron, Minnie Driver, John Leguizamo, and Maggie Q.