Monday, September 16, 2013

Monkeyland Crew @ the 65th Emmy Awards Creative Arts Ball



The Monkeyland sound editorial crew was honored this year with a Primetime Emmy nomination for their work on the National Geographic channel's "Seal Team Six: The Hunt For Osama Bin Laden". The Creative Art's Emmy Awards were held last night in Downtown, Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre, and while our team didn't walk away with a golden statue, everyone had a great time as can be seen in the photo above, taken at the Creative Arts Ball, immediately after the ceremony...

Earlier this year our sound editorial team won an MPSE Golden Reel Award for the same film at the 60th Annual Motion Picture Sound Editor's Awards for BEST SOUND EDITING: Long Form Sound Effects and Foley in Television.

We are also happy to report that "Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden" did take home the Emmy last night for 'Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Special'.  Monkeyland handled all sound editorial, design and mixing for the feature length documentary which premiered at this years Sundance Film Festival and aired earlier this year on HBO. We are so proud of Producer/Director Greg Barker and his entire team, and are honored to be part of yet another one of his amazing films.

A huge congratulations to all of last night's Creative Art's winners and nominees!

It is a great honor to continue to be acknowledged by our peers for our hard work and dedication to this craft we love so much!

Monday, April 15, 2013

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

Saturday, March 9, 2013

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

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