Monkeyland & Roush Media enter into strategic partnership; hire Thayer Jester as VP of Sales and Marketing

Monkeyland Audio and Roush Media are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer complete picture and sound packages to the entertainment industry. Based in Burbank, California, these service-oriented companies are experts in their field and collaborated successfully on several projects over the years. Monkeyland and Roush hired Thayer Jester to serve as VP of Sales and Marketing to solidify the partnership and provide sound and picture services, including all forms of deliverables to studio and independent clients alike.

Thayer Jester brings 14 years of post-production success to these highly respectable companies. Thayer’s vast contact base as well as her in-depth knowledge of the entire post-production process compliments the artist-owned company’s integrity and intentions. “I am thrilled to be representing such talented and well-respected post-production partners as Monkeyland Audio and Roush Media. They’ve been successful independently and now with their combined service offerings and efficient workflows, I predict we’ll be exceeding client expectations for another 20 years.”

Monkeyland Audio is a multi-award winning facility, providing complete audio post-production services including Re-Recording Mixing, ADR and Foley Recording, as well as full in-house Sound Editorial, Design and Supervision. For 20 years, the Monkeyland creative team has taken extreme pride in their collaborative approach with clients, striving to design rich, unique and detailed soundscapes for each and every project. “We are very excited to be partnering with Keith and his team at Roush,” said Monkeyland founder Trip Brock. “ It’s great to be working together with such a like-minded, artist-owned company, who is passionate about their work and will always put the client and the product first.”

Roush Media provides On-Set Dailies workflows, Color Management, Digital Intermediate and Deliverables services. Specializing in 4K Color grading for Digital Cinema file-based projects, Roush Media’s talented staff goes above and beyond their client’s expectations to provide them with efficient quality workflows and creative work. “ Partnering with Monkeyland for our clients sound needs just makes sense,” said Keith Roush. “This partnership allows our collective clients to leverage the best talent and technology of each company’s specialties while streamlining the service and billing.”

Monkeyland Audio and Roush Media are not your average corporate bottom-lined focused post company. They care about creating stunning images and beautiful sound by partnering with their clients to create the most efficient and cost effective workflow possible. They offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee to their clients, insuring that their picture and sound package is delivered with an approved full QC and to perfection.

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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!

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