Monkeyland Audio: Expanding Our Soundscape

Friends and Colleagues:

Monkeyland Audio is thankful for a great start to 2013. Our first quarter yielded three strong festival premieres (HBO’s “Manhunt” at Sundance, and “Hours” & “Snap” at SXSW), a Golden Reel win for “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden”, and a steady stream of feature, television and short form projects. With no real downtime, we dive into our second quarter with a healthy roster of projects, and a few other exciting changes!

One of our goals for 2013 was to strengthen the presence, reach, and stability of Monkeyland Audio, and as good fortune would have it, the possibility of doing so has suddenly become a reality for us. Thus, we have begun an expansion of our operations, that will include:

A new home! Effective immediately our new main stages facility will be located at 4720 West Magnolia Blvd. in Burbank, just one block west from our previous home of the last 6 years. We have spent the last month upgrading the facility, which includes 2 large theatrical dual Icon equipped 5.1/7.1 mixing stages, (3) 5.1 television mixing stages, a beautiful ADR Stage, full Avid Online, Final Cut and Color finishing capabilities, and amazing client amenities including a full gourmet kitchen and large cantina-style lounge area.

In addition, we have begun the restoration and reestablishment of Monkeyland at 1750 Flower Street in Glendale, which will become our new sound design & editorial headquarters, as well as home to our foley stage and a new 5.1/7.1 film and television mixing stage.

And finally, the reacquiring and resurrection of Mix Stage A at 2700 West Magnolia in Burbank. A flagship stage for Monkeyland from 2000-2009, we are proud to announce we have recommissioned this great sounding stage at the CDP building where we have mixed literally hundreds of films over the years including “The Grudge”, “An Inconvenient Truth”, “Feast”, and “Pulse”.

We now have a greater variety of stages, including 2 larger theatrical stages, great amenities as well as a few different options in location in order to better serve our clients specific needs. We feel the move is a fantastic opportunity for our company’s long-term growth and can’t wait to show you our new home!

After lots of hard work over the past few weeks decommissioning the old Monkeyland while continuing to service our clients, we are proud to announce it is business as usual here at Monkeyland: same amazingly talented staff, same phone number, new location: 4720 West Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505 phone: 8128-553-0955.

As we prepare to leave our previous facility behind, we take with us many great memories from these last six years, and want to thanks all our clients and colleagues for all the years of continued support. After completing over 200+ films, TV and web shows, commercials, and trailers during our stay here, we continue to remain focused and look forward to building a better, stronger Monkeyland. Call us for a tour of the new facility and please be sure to join us on Facebook and Twitter for many Monkey updates!

Thank you,

Your Friends at Monkeyland

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".