Cinema Audio Society

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoCinema Audio Society Opens Awards Submissions for 63rd Annual CAS Awards LOS ANGELES – October 27, 2026 – The Cinema Audio Society (CAS) has announced that submissions are now open for the 63rd Annual CAS Awards, to be held on Saturday, March 6, 2027, at the Beverly…

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoCAS & MPSE Present the Sounding Board V6.0 Presenting the Sounding Board v.6.0! The Cinema Audio Society and Motion Picture Sound Editors are non-profit organizations based in Los Angeles, California and representing several thousand audio…

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoCinema Audio Society to Honor Phillip W. Palmer CAS with 2027 Career Achievement Award LOS ANGELES — August 11, 2026 — The Cinema Audio Society today announced that it will honor Emmy Award-winning production sound mixer Phillip W.

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoAsk Me Anything: Playback vs Performance Ask Me Anything Playback vs Performance! August 8, 2026 – Evolution of tools, technology and techniques for capturing style and aesthetics of onset musical performance.

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoCAS Family Mini Golf! On July 25th the CAS had a TEE-riffic time at Holey Moley mini-golf in Santa Monica, CA. Members along with family and friends gathered for laughs and lively conversation along with a light lunch &…

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoAsk Me Anything: Don’t raise the bridge! Lower the water Ask Me Anything Don’t raise the bridge! Lower the water! July 7, 2026 – CAS members Jon Greasley CAS and Marc Fishman CAS with host Charles Dayton CAS discussed strategies and techniques for…

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoSteve “Maz” Maslow CAS Memorial Steve “Maz” Maslow CAS Renowned re-recording mixer Steve Maslow passed away in April after a battle with cancer.

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoGary Alper CAS Memorial Gary Alper CAS New York-based production sound mixer Gary Alper passed away in March. Alper, who was active in the industry for over 50 years, had two CAS Award nominations for Phil Spector (2014)…

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoKirk Francis CAS Memorial Kirk Francis CAS Oscar-winning production sound mixer Kirk Francis passed away in February. In addition to his win for The Bourne Ultimatum, Kirk also received an Oscar nomination for L.A.

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Cinema Audio SocietyVideoTom Menrath CAS Memorial Tom Menrath CAS Pro audio veteran Tom Menrath passed away in April after complications following an automobile accident.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo