Monkeyland brings home MPSE Award, Festival Season Recap

Congratulations to the entire Monkeyland Audio staff and creative sound team for the BEST SOUND EDITING: Direct To Video Live Action Feature Golden Reel Award they received this past weekend at the 63rd Annual Motion Picture Sound Editor's Awards.

Actually, in a rare occurrence, the winning category provided a tie! Of the 7 films up for the award this year, Monkeyland had two nominations, and are happy to report both their films have tied for the top honor: Bank Heist Drama/Thriller "7 Minutes" and coming of age drama "All The Wilderness".

A special thank you to all the filmmakers involved with these films who have once again entrusted us with their post sound: "Wilderness" Producers Andrea Sperling, Jonathan Schwartz and everyone with Super Crispy Films; "7 Minute's" Rick Rosenthal, Bert Kern and everyone at Whitewater Films, our directors Michael Johnson (Wilderness) and Jay Martin (7 Minutes), as well as the entire cast and crew of these 2 great films! Thank you as always to the MPSE and all of our colleagues and friends... It is so nice to be held in the same high regard as all of the other talented professionals in our field and to be recognized for our hard work and dedication to the craft we love so much.

The Monkeyland team is honored to have been nominated for at least one MPSE award for the past seven years in a row, with their last win coming 3 years ago for their Sound Effects, Design and Foley work on The Weinstein Company's "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden", for which they were also nominated for a Primetime Emmy. Coincidentally that year also produced a tie for the MPSE Long Form Television Award which they were extremely proud to have shared with the talented sound team for HBO's "Game of Thrones Season 2: Valar Morghulis".

Speaking of awards, we are proud to announce some of our more recently completed film titles that have been striking gold on the festival circuit as of late and headed to theaters and televisions near you soon: Director Valerie Weiss's "A Light Beneath Their Feet" has been on a non-stop tour of the festival circuit, picking up the "US Cinema Indie Gold Award", "Best Female Directed Narrative Feature" and the "Stubbornly Independent Award" among others. And just back from their world premieres at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, director Kerem Sanga's "First Girl I Loved" picked up the "Audience Award" in the Best of Next Category, and Stephen Kijak's feature music doc "We Are X" took the "Editing Award" for World Cinema Doc.

Up next: Look out for the world premieres of director Ti West's Western "In A Valley of Violence" and director Anne Hamilton's fairytale thriller "American Fable" next month at the SXSW film festival, both mixed at Monkeyland Audio.

Until next time! #yearofthemonkey, #plata, #reposado, #anejo

Monkeyland 2015 Year In Review

December 31, 2015

Hello Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

As has been our end of year tradition, we look back on another busy year filled with great projects and clients. Once again we find ourselves extremely blessed and grateful to continue to work and grow in this field we love so much. As we prepare to embark on our 23rd year in business, here's a quick look back at 2015.

2015 started out fast and furious as we were mixing two films headed off to Sundance: the Romanian film "Pioneer's Palace", and Director Bobcat Goldthwait's feature documentary "Call Me Lucky". In January, the Monkeyland team was also nominated for an MPSE award for their sound work on the 2014 release of the film "Wer". This year's nod marked Monkeyand's 13th MPSE nomination in the past 6 years, including 2 wins.

March 1, 2015: Mix Stage #Reposado comes online at Flower Street:

The beginning of 2015 also meant continuing expansion at our main Flower Street facility, as Stage #Reposado, our latest 7.1 ICON Dcontrol equipped Re-Recording Mixing Stage was completed and immediately put into action with non-stop feature mixing work including "A Light Beneath Their Feet", " Alison's Choice", "Powder & Gold", "I Spit On Your Grave 3", "Edge of Seventeen", Night of the Living Deb", "Most Likely To Die", "The Bandit Hound", "Edibles", "Satanic", "Killing Salazar", "Run The Tide", "Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin" and many others, including the much talked about top-secret Will Ferrell/Kristen Wiig Lifetime TV Movie "A Deadly Adoption."

Speaking of TV Movies, Monkeyland was happy to team up again this year with our friends at MarVista Entertainment, as well as all the filmmakers involved to provide full sound editorial and mixing services for another great slate of movies including "Caught", "Girl Missing","Lethal Seduction", "Lost Boy", "The Spirit of Christmas", "A Teacher's Obsession", "A Kind of Magic", "Abducted in Colombia", "The Carpenters Daughter", "Jessica Darling's It List" and "Kill Them All". We also had a great time working with ACI on the TV Movies "Love Find's You In Charm" and "Love Find's You in Valentine", and G It's Entertainment on "A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale", "The Suicide Note", and "Accidental Engagement".

2015 Feature Documentaries:

Besides our mainstay slate of dramatic feature projects, 2015 brought us a wide variety of feature documentary editorial and mixing work as well. Some of the docs we completed included basketball doc "The Drew: No Excuse, Just Produce", Alki David bio "Lord of the Freaks", the latest Warren Miller high octane sports doc "Chasing Shadows", as well as "Live Another Day", "First Contact" and "Don't Tell Kim". We are also working on "We Are X", a doc about the legendary Japanese rock band 'X Japan" which premieres next month at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Finally, we are currently mixing the new HBO doc "Homegrown", our fifth feature doc with director Greg Barker.

Episodic Television:

On the TV front, our friends at Atomic Post were here the first part of the year finishing up the final season of ABCs "Resurrection" while continuing to mix season 4 of ABC's "Once Upon A Time", and then finished up the year mixing season 5. Meanwhile, we completed full editorial and mixing for Oxygen's new series "Snapped: She Made Me Do It", as well as season 2 of "Tornado Alley" and season 1 of "Natural Born Monsters", both for The Weather Channel. Disney has also been in mixing the new Disney Channel series "The Lion Guard".

2015 Film Releases:

Some of our other films released this past year include Adam Carolla's "Road Hard", Chris Evan's directorial debut "Before We Go","Kidnapping Mr. Heineken" staring Anthony Hopkins, "Bleeding Heart" starring Jessica Biel and the highly acclaimed recently released "Zinzana". Also don't miss the new Lion's Gate animated feature "Norm of the North", recently mixed at Monkeyland and in theaters January 15th.

Other cool projects completed in 2015 include sound design and mixing on Warner Bros. web series "Mortal Kombat Legacy" season 3, Lifetime's new web series "Fall Into Me", and Blackbox TV's new web series "The Fourth Door".

And just like that almost another year has past! Some feature film projects we are still currently finishing include the family/action/sci-fi "Time Toys", Mid-west thriller "American Fable", horror/thriller "I Know You're In There", horror "Villisca" and director Kerem Sanga's new feature "First Girl I Loved", premiering at the Sundance Film Festival next month.

And now onward to 2016! We've got a lot more to share with everyone in the coming months, including the completion of our largest Re-Recording Mixing Stage #Anejo, coming online the first quarter of 2016 featuring dual operator Avid S6 consoles and Dolby Atmos! For more info you can check out our Blog on the "What's New" section of our website. We’d also love for you to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter where we regularly post interesting Monkey news, pictures and other fun project-related stuff.

The entire Monkeyland family would like to wish you all a very safe, prosperous, and creative New Year. Happy Holidays and happy filmmaking! Until next time...

Monkeyland Editors Nominated for MPSE Award for 6th consecutive year!

Monkeyland is proud and honored to once again be recognized by the Motion Picture Sound Editors with a nomination this year in the Direct To Video Live Action category for the film "WER". Today the MPSE released the nominations for the 62nd MPSE Golden Reel Awards, which honors the best feature film, television, animation and computer entertainment sound work of the year.

After working with the filmmakers on Paramount's 2012 box office hit "The Devil Inside", Monkeyland once again teamed up with Writer/Director William Brent Bell and Producers Matthew Peterman and Morris Paulson on "Wer". Released in 2014 by FilmDistrict/Universal, the film stars A.J. Cook, a defense attorney who begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family in France, might me more than meets the eye.

This year's nod marks Monkeyand's 13 nomination by the MPSE in the past 6 years. We couldn't be more grateful to our loyal clientele and colleagues who have enabled us to continuously work in this field that we love so much while also being recognized for our hard work and dedication to our craft by our peers.

Previously, the Monkeyland Audio team won a Golden Reel in 2013 for their work on the TV Movie "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden", and in 2012 for the Computer Episodic series "Aim High". Monkeyland was also nominated in 2013 for a Primetime Emmy award for outstanding sound editing for a miniseries, movie or special, also for "Seal Team Six".

Congratulations also to our extremely talented intern ShaSha Dong, who was nominated by the MPSE this year for the Verna Fields Award for Student Filmmakers, for the short film "Sin Frontera". A big congrats as well to all of the other extremely talented nominees in all categories. We are looking forward to celebrating with everyone at the MPSE awards ceremony on February 15. You can catch the entire list of nominees here.

Monkeyland Audio 2014: Year In Review

December 23, 2014

Hello Friends & Colleagues,

Monkeyland's 21st year is quickly coming to a close which means it's time for our annual look back at some of the highlights and moments that made up our 2014. All of us at Monkeyland are extremely grateful we've been able to spend yet another year pursing our love of sound and expanding our craft while continuing to work with both our loyal longtime clientele and new clients alike.

The year started off fast and furious. Three of our films were headed to the Sundance Film Festival with lot's of mixing still to be done! While Gregg Araki's "White Bird In A Blizzard" had finished mixing in December, we were still mixing "We Are The Giant", our fourth feature doc working with Director Greg Barker, and "Imperial Dreams", all headed to mid January premieres in Park City. Meanwhile, we had just started sound editorial and mixing for 6 episodes of a new ABC mini series "The Assets".

Monkeyland Audio Nominated for 3 MPSE Awards: After taking home an MPSE win and Primetime Emmy nomination last year for National Geographic's "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden", Monkeyland was again honored in 2014 with 3 additional MPSE nominations for Best Sound Editing in a Long Form TV Documentary, Direct To Video Live Action, and Short Form TV Documentary categories. (For "Manhunt", "Lord of Darkness" and "30 Days In May", respectively.)

2014’s slate of audio projects proved to be quite an eclectic assortment of mainly feature films, documentaries and television, along with a variety of promos, commercials, trailers and short format projects. On the feature film front, some of the year's highlights included Chris Evan's directorial debut "Before We Go", Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington starrer "Kidnapping Freddie Heineken", Adam Carolla's directorial debut Comedy "Road Hard", Indie Comedy/Drama "The Young Kieslowski"and Family Adventure sequel "The Adventures of Mickey Matson: Pirates Code". Our sound team also completed full editorial, design and mixing on Drama "A Sort of Homecoming", Period Drama "Victor", Steven Segal Action Crime Drama "The Mercenary: Absolution", Crime Thriller "7 Minutes", Spanish language Drama "Las Horas Contigo", Drama Horror "Things That Are To Die", Drama Romance "Old Fashioned" and Romanian indie "Limani". We are also currently finishing editorial and mixing on the Taryn Manning Drama "A Light Beneath Their Feet", Horror "Villisca", Drama Thriller "Inner Fear" Spanish language Drama "Ciudades Desiertas", starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Ashley Hinshaw. We also just finished mixing Romanian Period Comedy "Pioneer's Palace" which will premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Keep an eye out for all these films coming to theaters and/or home video soon.

On the Television front, we are very happy to welcome sound editorial company Atomic Post, who along with their talented team of mixers and editors are currently mixing the ABC primetime shows "Once Upon A Time" and "Resurrection" here at Monkeyland. Meanwhile, we have recently completed editorial and mixing on the second season of Lifetime's successful documentary series "Ghost Inside My Child", and after completing the first season of "Tornado Alley" for the Weather Channel earlier this year, we are gearing up for season two starting next month.

2014 also presented new working relationships while reuniting with filmmakers from our past. This year we began a new working partnership with MarVista Entertainment, providing complete sound editorial and mixing services for nine of the TV movies from their 2014 slate. We posted Lifetime Bio Pic "The Brittany Murphy Story" and Christmas Romance "Naughty & Nice" while reconnecting with Producer Carrie LeGrand.

We also had the pleasure of working again with Director Sam Irvin on Comedy "Mothers of the Bride" and "Naughty & Nice". It was great teaming up again with Director William Dickerson for Lifetime's "Don't Look Back" and "The Assault". Rounding out our 2014 MarVista slate were TV Movies "Meet My Valentine", "Bad Blood", "All She Wishes" and "12 Dog Days Till Christmas.

Other films which came in for additional editorial and mixing at Monkeyland throughout the year included: "Sabotage" (TV Version), "The Contest", "Drones", and "Refuge From The Storm". Some of the shows that visited our ADR and Foley stages included: "A Haunted House 2", "The Duff", "The 33", "Webcam", "Orphan Black", "Taxi Brooklyn", "The Guest", "The Signal", "Somnia", "All In Time", "Bad Teacher" "The Exorcism of Molly Hartley", "Nature Cat", "Cooties", "Stung","The Great Gilly Hopkins" and "Children's Hospital". Heck, we even had visits by cultural icons Weird Al and the Fonz, and a very special appearance by Buzz Aldrin, one of only 12 men to have walked on the moon!

We also had an opportunity to work on a wide variety of feature documentaries this year including: "Pencil's Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike", Adventure Doc "Passage To Mars", Salvation Army Doc "Hard Corps", "Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey", Sports Doc "Game Face" and of course the latest Warren Miller high-octane Sports doc "No Turning Back", mixed by Mark Rozett. Other exciting 2014 projects for us included editorial and mixing for many commercials, trailers and promos fpr our friends at Dirty Robber, Coyote Post, Omelet LA, MRG Productions, The Uprising Creative, World War Seven, and Big Boss Creative.

Monkeyland is glad to continue to have the opportunity to meet and work with new up and coming talented filmmakers. We completed quite a few short format projects this year including "Family Escape", "Witch Girl Film", "Brown Bag", Sabre Dance", "Eleven", Celluloid Dreams", Sandboy", and "Nini". We anticipate many great things for the filmmakers involved in these projects. Outstanding work, folks!

Whew! What a year... and now onward to 2015... For more info you can check out the "What's New" section on our website. We’d also love for you to follow us on Facebook and Twitter where we regularly post interesting Monkey news, pictures and other fun project-related stuff.

The Monkey crew and I would like to wish you all a very safe, prosperous, and creative New Year. Happy Holidays and happy filmmaking! Until next time...

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ABC Primetime Shows Mixing at Monkeyland, Premiere Sunday Night

Be sure to catch the season premieres of the hit series "Once Upon A Time", followed by "Resurrection" as they make their 2014 fall season debuts on ABC tomorrow night.

Both shows are being mixed at Monkeyland Audio by Kevin Burns and John Chalfant, with sound editorial by Atomic Post. "Once Upon A Time", now in it's 4th season is being mixed on Stage A at our Burbank Facility, while "Resurrection" is mixing on Stage F around the corner at our Flower Street facility.

Also currently mixing at Monkeyland is the hit series "Ghost Inside My Child", which airs Saturdays nights on Lifetime. The show is mixed on Monkeyland's Stage Z with Derek Marcil. And don't miss these other TV Movies we've recently completed editorial and mixing at Monkeyland:

"The Assault" (10/4 on Lifetime)
"Don't Look Back" (10/5 Premiere on LMN)
"The Brittany Murphy Story" (10/8 on Lifetime)
"Naughty & Nice" (11/9 Premiere on UP Network)

Another Busy Month at Monkeyland: August Recap

It's been another busy and exciting month at Monkeyland with a slew of new film and television projects wrapping up and headed for release... This week alone saw the completion of 2 indie features: "A Sort of Homecoming" mixed by Mark Rozett on Stage A, and "All She Wishes" mixed by Trip Brock on Stage F. Meanwhile, mixer Kelly Vandever was putting the finishing touches on the TV movie "The Brittany Murphy Story" which premieres on Lifetime Saturday, September 6. All sound design, supervision, foley and ADR were also handled by the talented Monkeyland staff...

Other films completed this month at Monkeyland include Chris Evan's directorial debut "Before We Go" which premieres next month at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, and Mixer Roar Skau Olsen was in from Denmark putting the finishing touches on the feature documentary "The Yes Men Are Revolting" also premiering at the TIFF.

Director Georgia Hilton and Re-Recording Mixer Charles Maynes also spent a week on Monkeyland's Stage A, finishing the final mix for the feature film "Subconscious", while Re-Recording Mixer Jeff Jones visited Stage F putting the finishing touches on the 2014 Sundance film "Cooties", starring Elijah Wood. Both of these films to be released via Lion's Gate soon....

"The Assault", another TV movie recently completed at Monkeyland will see it's premiere on Lifetime September 20, and "May in the Summer", a feature completed earlier this year at MLA expands it's theatrical run this weekend adding additional cities...

We were also happy to have lots of amazing talent in for ADR these past few months working on their various film, television and music projects including Elijah Wood, Lance Henriksen, Diedrich Bader, Weird Al Yankovic, Lou Diamond Phillips, Chris Evans, Gail O'Grady, Madeleine Stowe, Haylie Duff, Taran Killam, Bill Hader, Nasim Pedrad and Sherilyn Fenn. Many more awesome photos for the guestbook, indeed!

Rounding out the month, were Re-Recording Mixers Kevin Burns and John Chalfant back in to finish Universal's "Scorpion King 4: Quest For Power". Starting next month, this mixing duo will be back at Monkeyland as they start mixing the new season's of ABC's "Once Upon A Time" and "Resurrection".... Looking forward to another great month and rest of the year!

Busy month in progress at Monkeyland!

It's been an incredibly busy month here at Monkeyland with no end in sight! Barely half way through the month and theres lots of exciting things happening... Re-Recording Mixer Kelly Vandever has been busy mixing Chris Evan's directorial debut "1:30 Train" on Stage 3 and also just finished mixing director Sam Irvin's holiday TV movie "Naughty & Nice"... Pictured (L to R) below are Kelly Vandever, Producer Carrie LeGrand and Director Sam Irvin. Christmas in July!

Also in on Stage 3 has been Supervising Sound Editor Mike Wilhoit and Re-Recording Mixers Kevin Burns and John Chalfant working on Universal's "Scorpion King 4: Quest For Power".

Editorial & mixing has also begun on the new season of the television series "Ghost Inside My Child", mixed by Derek Marcil on Stage F. Produced by our friends at Joke Productions, the series will be airing on Lifetime's LMN.

Meanwhile, our incredibly talented editorial and foley crews have been busy putting the finishing touches on Informant Media's feature film "Kidnapping Freddy Heineken", starring Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington and Jim Sturgess. MarVista Entertainment's TV movies "Bad Blood", "Mothers of the Bride" and "The Assault", will also be completed at Monkeyland by the end of this month.... Whew!

Also in this month recording ADR have been the feature films "The 33" and "A Sort of Homecoming", as well as a special appearance by former astronaut Buzz Aldren, who was in recording voice over for the upcoming "Passage To Mars", which we have been sound designing as well. Pictured below with Mr. Aldren are Monkeyland's Caleb Hollenback and Rob Embrey.

It truly is a pleasure and a priviledge to continue doing what we love to do year after year, and we can't wait to share even more exciting Monkeyland news with you all soon!

It's a wrap for Micky Matson sequel at Monkeyland

It's done... The final mix for director Harold Cronk's "Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Pirates Code" was completed today on Monkeyland's Stage 3- and what a wild ride its been! Mixed in a mad dash by Re-Recording Mixer Kelly Vandever as only he could, with Supervising Sound Editor Steven Avila at the editorial helm, the entire Monkeyland crew had their hands full on this one...

No stranger to director Cronk's action packed films, the "Pirates Code" is the sequel to 2013's "The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treaure", which Monkeyland also had the pleasure of posting.

Pictured below is picture editor Dustin Solomon (left) and, director Cronk, taken right after the final mix tweaks were completed. Photos courtesy of Kelly Vandever, during one of his rare free moments on stage while not rocking the faders into submission....

Thanks also to Producer Edgar Struble for keeping everyone on track, and we're looking forward to seeing everyone on the next one!

Busy week at Monkeyland- We are currently editing & mixing 2 feature films headed to the Los Angeles Film Festival- check out the world premiere of director Karem Sanga's THE YOUNG KIESLOWSKI screening in the Narrative Competition starting June 14th, and the Hal Holbrook Feature Documentary: HOLBROOK/TWAIN: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY on June 15th.

The Los Angeles Film Festival runs from June 11- June 19, 2014. Check out the Full Lineup Here

Check out the premiere of the new original series "Tornado Alley" April 28, as part of the Weather Channel's 'Tornado Week'

All you storm chasers, look out for the premiere of the Weather Channel's new original series "Tornado Alley", which premieres next Monday, April 28 at 9pm EST as part of the kickoff to 'Tornado Week'. Monkeyland Audio completed audio for the complete first season earlier this week, mixed on Stage F at our Flower Street facility.

Check out more here: Viewers Taken By Storm By Jam-Packed 'Tornado Week' on The Weather Channel April 28 – May 4

"Alien Abduction" Coming April 4th - Check it out!

Previously titled "Project Bluebook", director Matty Beckerman's found footage film "Alien Abduction" is set for release on April 4, 2014 through IFC. Check out dreadcentral.com for a look at the trailer and more...

We had the pleasure of sound designing and mixing this very cool film with our filmmaker friend's Matty Beckerman, Steve and Tim Mirkovich and Jenny Hinkey....

Monkeyland Audio nominated for 3 MPSE Awards!

Monkeyland is proud to announce that our sound editorial team has just been nominated for 3 Motion Picture Sound Editor's Golden Reel awards. The official announcement for the 61st Annual Golden Reel Awards came yesterday.

Best Sound Editing: Long Form Documentary in Television:
Monkeyland has been nominated for best sound editing for their work on director Greg Barker's documentary "Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden". After it's world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival last year, "Manhunt" premiered on HBO, and in September of last year took home the Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Documentary for Nonfiction Special. Monkeyland has collaborated on Greg's last four feature documentaries, the most recent, "We Are the Giant", premieres next week at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Best Sound Editing: Direct To Video: Live Action:
The Monkeyland crew was also nominated for their sound editorial and design work on the Scottish horror film, "Lord of Darkness". Originally entitled "Sawney: Flesh of Man" the film is based on the legendary Scottish true story of Sawney Bean and his family of cannibalistic serial killers. After watching this gruesome tale, your thoughts on gravy will be forever changed!

Best Sound Editing: Short Form Documentary in Television:
The Monkeyland sound editors were also nominated for their work on "30 Days In May". Supervised and mixed by Kelly Vandever, the revealing documentary film chronicles the days surrounding Floyd Mayweather’s 2012 incarceration, and premiered on Showtime in April, 2013.

Last year, the Monkeyland team was also honored with an MPSE award for their Sound Effects, Design and Foley work on The Weinstein Company's feature film "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden", which premiered on the National Geographic Channel last year.

Special thanks to our amazing Re-Recording Mixers Mark Rozett and Kelly Vandever who are always right there in the trenches with us. A big congratulations as well to all of our colleagues and friends who were also nominated, and we look forward to the awards ceremony which will be held on Febraury 16, 2014 in downtown Los Angeles.

Monkeyland 2013: 20 years in the making

December 23, 2013

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It's hard to believe it's almost 2014, and Monkeyland's 20th year is quickly coming to a close. As has become our tradition, we'd like to take a look back at the previous year's monkey business, highlighting the projects, changes and moments that made up our 2013. As good fortune would have it, there was hardly a dull moment and the Monkeyland crew was able to spend another year doing what we love so much on a wide variety of projects with our incredibly talented clients, friends and colleagues.

"Manhunt": The Mad Dash To Sundance '13: One of our first projects of 2013, "Manhunt" had to happen fast, as it was premiering at Sundance in mid January. It's our third film working with Director Greg Barker. The documentary would later air on HBO and in September would take home the primetime Emmy Award for Best Documentary.

Lots more excitement was happening the first part of the year as the Monkeyland crew took home their 2nd MPSE Golden Reel Award. This one for their Sound Effects work on "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden." Later in the fall we were honored again with a Primetime Emmy Nomination for the same film.

Expanding our Soundscape: 2013 also brought a major move for Monkeyland... literally. After nearly 6 years at the 4620 Magnolia address and a change in building ownership, Monkeyland relocated to our current three facilities. Our new homes feature a wide variety of stages including 2 larger theatrical mix stages, great amenities as well as a few different options in location. We feel the move is a fantastic opportunity for our company’s long-term growth and can’t wait to share with you all the exciting new things to come!

2013’s slate of projects proved to be a very eclectic assortment that included feature films, television shows, web series, promos, commercials, trailers, and some really cool short films. On the feature film front, our sound team completed full editorial and mixing on the following: Crime Thriller "Ten Cent Pistol", Jerry Lewis starrer "Max Rose", which premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival, "Wer", the follow-up Horror film from "The Devil Inside" filmmakers, Mystery Thriller "Terroir", Dramas "Las Horas Contigo", "The Wilderness of James" and "Old Fashioned", SXSW Thriller "Snap", Romance Drama "Beyond Paradise", Action Crime Drama "Betrayal", feature doc "State of Control" and the annual Warren Miller high octane sports documentary, "Ticket To Ride." We have also just started editorial on "Victor", a period piece set in 1962 Brooklyn, directed by Brandon Dickerson. Keep an eye out for all these films coming to theaters and/or home video in 2014.

We also had some exciting television projects in house this year. We provided complete sound editorial and mixing for “American Ninja Warrior”, back for it's fifth season on NBC & the G4 Network. Season 2 of Cinemax's "The Girls Guide to Depravity" was also back, along with Bio series "The Ghost Inside My Child", Showtime's Floyd Mayweather documentary "30 Days in May", "Seven Lives Exposed" and an episode of MTV's True Life series. We are also excited for a new TV series we just finished, "Don't Trust Andrew Mayne", premiering in January 2014 on A&E.

Other films which came in for additional editorial and mixing at Monkeyland throughout the year include: "May in the Summer", "Project Blue Book", "The Art of the Steal", "The Black Russian", "Worm", "The Secret Life of Dorks", "Gus", "At the Top of the Pyramid", "American Seagull", and "Hello Herman".

Some of the shows that visited our ADR and Foley stages include: "Way of the Wicked", "The Sacrament", "Site 146", "5 To 7", "Chalk PreSchool", "In Lieu of Flowers", Lifetime's "Santa Switch", "108", and the animated "Timm's Industrial Piping". A few other films recently in for ADR and headed for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival were "The Signal" and "The Guest", both premiering as part of the Park City at Midnight program, and "The Skeleton Twins", which is part of the U.S. Dramatic competition. Congratulations everyone!

Speaking of Sundance, Monkeyland is proud to be doing complete sound editorial, design and mixing on 3 additional feature films premiering in Park City next month. We have just completed the mix on Gregg Araki's new feature "White Bird In a Blizzard", which will be premiering at Sundance on January 20. Prior to "White Bird", Monkeyland has done the post sound on Gregg's 3 most recent features as well. And just as the year started, so shall it end, as the rush to Sundance is on with the other 2 Sundance features we are currently completing: Director Malik Vitthal's "Imperial Dreams" will screen as part of the "Next" Program, and Greg Barker's latest documentary "We Are The Giant" is premiering too. Thanks again for trusting Monkeyland with your post sound and congratulations to all!

Monkeyland is also honored to have participated in the editorial and mixing for quite a few short films this year: "Reaver", "Woman In Fragments", "Mop Bucket Mastermind", "Nini", "Interstate", "The Council", "Veladora" and "The Conversation". We anticipate many great things for the filmmakers involved in these projects. Outstanding work, folks!

This year we also had a very unique opportunity to work with famed artists Paul and Damon McCarthy, for whom we edited, mixed, designed and oversaw the sound system installations for their two New York City art exhibit openings this past summer: "White Snow" and "Rebel Dabble Babble". Other exciting 2013 projects for us included editorial and mixing of seasons 3 and 4 for CW Web Series comedy "Husbands", as well as many commercial and promo mixes and recording for our friends at Dirty Robber, Coyote Post, Omelet LA, MRG Productions, The Uprising Creative, Resnick Interactive and the Smithsonian Channel.

In October of 2013, we saw a new addition to our Monkeyland family with Thayer Jester coming aboard as VP of Sales and Marketing. Thayer brings with her 14 years of post-production success and we can't wait for everyone to meet her. Unfortunately at nearly the same time we lost a wonderful creative talent in Peter Lago, who is exploring new sonic adventures at Warner Bros. For over 10 years Peter brought the highest level of creativity, professionalism and leadership to the Monkeyland team and we look forward to collaborating with him again in the future.

Lastly, but certainly not least, Monkeyland is excited to announce our new strategic partnership with Roush Media, allowing for our collective clients to leverage the best talent and technology of each company’s specialties. Based in downtown Burbank, Roush provides On-Set Dailies workflows, Color Management, Digital Intermediate and Deliverables services, specializing in 4K Color grading for Digital Cinema file-based projects.

For more info you can follow the links in this posting or check out the "What's New" section on our website. We’d also love for you to follow us on Facebook and Twitter where we regularly post interesting Monkey news, pictures and other fun project-related stuff.

The Monkey crew and I would like to wish you all a very safe, prosperous, and creative New Year. Happy Holidays and happy filmmaking!