Event

Beyond Room Tone: Creating Sound Design for Your Documentary

This panel will bring in filmmakers and sound designers to talk about their collaborative process and the techniques used for creating a mood and atmosphere with sound.

The sound design of a film can set up all sorts of interpretations, expectations and emotions in a listener. And with the growth of documentaries using animation and archival techniques, the sound design of a film is becoming a larger character in a story. This panel will bring in filmmakers and sound designers to talk about their collaborative process and the techniques used for creating a mood and atmosphere with sound.

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Featured Panelists:

Penny Lane has been making award-winning, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. Her third feature, the experimental found footage horror documentary The Pain of Others (2018) recently debuted at Rotterdam. Her previous feature documentary NUTS! (2016), a historical quasi-fiction incorporating both archival and animation, premiered at Sundance where it won a Special Jury Prize for Editing.

Tom Paul is a two-time Emmy Award winning re-recording mixer and a highly regarded sound designer. He is one of New York City’s most sought after talents in the field of post production audio. The last few years have been filled with working on wonderful films including The Big Sick, City of Ghosts, Cartel Land, Weiner, The Wolfpack, Particle Fever, The Square, Doris and Anesthesia, to name just a few. Paul’s home base in NYC is Gigantic Studios, a boutique post facility that he designed with partner Brian Devine.

Mark Phillips is a sound designer, music composer and radio producer. He has over a decade’s-worth of experience in podcasts and public radio. He was the editor, producer and sound designer for the first season of Homecoming, the Peabody-nominated scripted podcast starring Catherine Keener and Oscar Isaac.

David Teague is a documentary film editor and writer whose work includes Oscar-winning and Emmy-winning films. In 2017, he completed two films: The Departure, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and The Cage Fighter, which had its premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival.His past films include the Oscar-nominated Life, Animated, the Emmy-nominated and Sundance-winning E-TEAM, and the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Cutie and the Boxer.

Cheree Dillon (Moderator) is an independent film editor based in New York City. Most recently she edited Massacre River, funded by ITVS; co-edited Death by Design, which premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016; and edited the broadcast of The Homestretch for the PBS series, Independent Lens. Dillon’s first feature documentary was the Emmy-nominated Off and Running, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was later broadcast on the PBS series POV.