Think instead about telling your story. We will concentrate on what’s really going to make the difference in  getting the audience connected to your film. And that should be your goal.

By dissecting film clips and with a Socratic approach, Mr. Ulano will help you develop a critical thinking mindset to the industry’s least understood craft. You can have pretty visuals and moving performances but if you didn’t care about sound during production, your film may not have the impact you set out to make. Think it’s too technical to bother with sound? Think again.

Moderator: Nikola Medic

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Mark Ulano has been recording sound for film professionally since 1976.  His work on TITANIC won him an Academy Award for Sound Mixing as well as the Cinema Audio Society Award for Best Sound mixing for a Feature Film. He has multiple AMPAS, CAS, and BAFTA nominations; most recently Oscar nominations for ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, and AD ASTRA.  Other credits include THE HATEFUL EIGHT, THE JUDGE, SUPER 8, THE TOURIST, INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, ROCKY BALBOA, DJANGO UNCHAINED, KILL BILL VOLS. I & 2, JACKIE BROWN, IRON MAN, IRON MAN 2, AUSTIN POWERS, THE MASTER, WEDDING CRASHERS TALLADEGA NIGHTS, SPY KIDS, STUART LITTLE and over 140 film and television projects. He has also had a 26 year collaboration with Quentin Tarantino.

He has authored over 50 articles, interviews and reviews related to Production Sound Mixing. He has frequently been a teacher of workshops and guest speaker at sound symposiums internationally, including Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Gold Program, American Film Institute, the Dutch National Film School- Amsterdam, National Film and Television School UK, University of Greenwich-London, Westerdals institute for film and media -Oslo, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana(Italian Space Agency)-Rome, Institute of Technology Tralee- Ireland, Rycote World Sound Symposium, USC/Jiao Tong (Shanghai Masters of Cinema program), Maine Media Workshops Master class, School of Visual Arts Master Class. The Norwegian Bjoksjo Sound Symposium, The Beijing Film Academy, K-Tek Master Class 2019-Munich & Paris, The Directors Guild of America, Digital Video Expo, AES and Cinema Audio Society and many others. 

Mr. Ulano has sat 30 years as a board member for the Cinema Audio Society and served the full two terms both as President and Vice President of the CAS. He also has served five terms as president of IATSE Local 695 (the film sound union in Los Angeles) and also served nine terms on the Sound Branch Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as well as various AMPAS subcommittees.

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