Michael Kunkes

Though their jobs run the gamut from low-tech to the highest levels of digital file management, they all have certain attributes in common: an ability to step into a variety …

CineMontage talked to four editors of Bond past: John Glen, Terry Rawlings, A.C.E, Michel Arcand and Christian Wagner.

What is a Foley artist? 41 years after its namesake’s death, Foley is among the last bastions of organic filmmaking––a cinematic art that is still relatively untouched by the digital …

Foley was a name that stuck to the process, the location and the very special group of craftspeople who became, next to the physical actors, perhaps the most important performers …

To help navigate through all the improvised sequences, Alpert extensively used Avid’s Script Tool, an older but still useful utility on a movie such as ‘Pineapple Express’.

For 87 years, since its beginning, “Taking care of our own”––regardless of ability to pay––has been the primary mission of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, as it offers health …

Watching movies and TV shows all day––and getting paid for it–– sounds like a dream job, but it’s serious work for quality control and videotape operators. Both are technical jobs, …

Guild engineers are self-admitted gearheads who just plain love to fix things.

Hollywood’s oldest studio’s stock footage library came into existence in the mid-1920s. For the majors, whether or not to develop a stock footage library has always been a business decision.

Perhaps no other classification in the Guild is so caught in the middle between yesterday and tomorrow, with one foot in the analogue past and the other in the digital …