2 Monkeyland Films premiering at SXSW this week

It's the 20th anniversary of the SXSW Film Festival and Monkeyland Audio is proud to have 2 film's premiering in the next few days.


Hours, written and directed by Eric Heisserer, gets it's world premiere tomorrow night as part of the Narrative Spotlight. The Hurricane Katrina based suspense drama stars Paul Walker who battles the elements and exhaustion for two days in a hospital while his newborn daughter clings to life inside a ventilator powered only by a manual crank.



World premiering the following day is Snap, starring Nikki Reed and Jake Hoffman. Directed by Youssef Delara and Victor Teran, Snap is a dark psychological thriller set in the underground world of dubstep.

Full post production sound and mixing for both films were completed at Monkeyland. For a great article on our post sound process for Hours, check out Sound Designer Peter Lago's article at The Postlab: Man vs. Time: The Soundscape for HOURS

The festival runs March 8, 2013- March 16, 2013. For more info on the festival and all the films you can check out SXSW.com

Monkeyland Wins MPSE Golden Reel Award!

Congratulations to the entire Monkeyland Audio staff and creative sound team on the Golden Reel Award they received last night at the 60th Annual Motion Picture Sound Editor's Awards for BEST SOUND EDITING: Long Form Sound Effects and Foley in Television.


Pictured (above) celebrating backstage after receiving their awards are Kate Sheil, Alexander Pugh, and Peter Lago, and (below) Peter Lago, Steven Avila, Trip Brock and Alexander Pugh. Congratulations also to Supervising Foley Editor Greg Mauer and Foley Artist Rick Owens who were unfortunately unable to attend the ceremony and all the rest of our amazing crew!


The Monkeyland team won 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. The long form television category actually produced a tie this year and we are extremely proud and honored to share the win in this category with our talented sound colleagues who won for their work on HBO's "Game of Thrones Season 2: Valar Morghulis". Pictured (below) are both sound crews on the stage, with Monkeyland's Peter Lago giving his acceptance speech.



It truly is an honor to be acknowledged by our colleagues and peers for doing what we love to do!



Monkeyland was also nominated this year for another Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in a Feature Documentary for their work on "Climate Refugees", and won the Golden Reel Award last year for Best Sound Editing for the Web Series "Aim High".

Best of luck to "Manhunt" Premiering today at Sundance

Director Greg Barker's new HBO feature documentary "Manhunt" premieres today in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Based on the book MANHUNT, by Peter L. Bergen, this espionage tale goes inside the CIA’s long conflict against Al Qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against Osama bin Laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.

The New York Times described Greg Barker as “a filmmaker of artistic and political consequence.” A former war-correspondent-turned filmmaker, Barker has worked in more than 50 countries across six continents. "Manhunt" is the culmination of Barker’s 10-year interest in America’s conflict with Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

Monkeyland is honored to be working with Greg and his team for the third time. His previous films include "Sergio", winner of the Documentary Editing Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, as well as "Koran by Heart", for which Monkeyland was nominated last year by the MPSE for Best Sound Editing in a television documentary.

"Manhunt" will be playing 6 times at Sundance, premiering today and running through January 26th, and will make it's way onto HBO later this year.