SoundSpace Studio News

Following a successful 16-festival run, Push Button House, a documentary by Robert Profusek and Ryan Silbert, obtained distribution by SnagFilms, Babelgum and IndiePix.  The film, mixed at SoundSpace, showcases the work of artist Adam Kalkin as he premiers the Illy sponsored project at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan.

The latest Danny Clinch signature short music documentary previews songs from the new Pearl Jam album as well as goes behind the scenes into the making of the album.  Edited by Taryn Gould. Sound Mix by Matthew Polis at SoundSpace. Watch here.  Read article in Rolling Stones.

Skatopia, which was mixed at by Matthew Polis at SoundSpace in July Premiered at Acefest 2009 and sold out two screening rooms.  The well attended screenings were followed by a party featuring bands from the film.

Nicole Opper's second documentary feature will be premiering in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. The film was also chosen to be followed by NBC for a special that will air on network television.  The NBC crew stopped by SoundSpace to document the film in its final stages of post production.  

The film, directed by Jay DiPietro and staring Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin, Tracie Thoms, and Noah Bean, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Since then, the film as had had a great festival run, screening at GenArt film festival in New York, the AFI Dallas Film Festival and others. The film was sound designed at SoundSpace and mixed at DIGit Audio.

Josh Hume's film, William's Christening, wins a total of seven craft awards and was a Wasserman/King Finalist at NYU's annual film festival this year.  Among those was Best Achievment in Sound Design, awarded to Matthew Polis (sound design) and Jodi Levine (mix).

Following the success of their feature documentary, Off the Grid, the team at Still Point Pictures created this short narrative based on some of the stories and characters they followed.  Intended to show a taste of the feature-length version to follow, the short was selected to screen in competition at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

After a successful sound design and mix at SoundSpace, Sordid Things heads up to the Boston International Film Festival for its world premiere.  The film stars  Alex Burns, Alex Kingston, James McCaffrey, Nicole Vicius (II), Piper Perabo and is directed by first-time director, Andrew Bloomenthal. Read interview with Andrew.

Matthew Polis led the post audio workshop as part of the IFP DocLab. The workshop was an all-day even held at the Galapagos Art Center in DUMBO.  This is the 2nd year Matthew has led the post audio workshop. Photo by Dave Gustine

Alphabet Killer and Were the World Mine both premiered at the same time and at the same theater in New York City last month. The Cinema Village theater in Union Square screened these films with at least enough overlap to grab this photo of Matthew Polis, SoundSpace founder.  Both of films were sound designed by Matthew Polis at SoundSpace in Chelsea and mixed at Digital Cinema by James Redding.

Marjan Tehrani's  personal and poignient feature documentary, Arusi, premiers on PBS's Independent Lens series in March of 2009.    "Independent Lens is public television's equivalent of This American Life, a completely freeform program with no apparent rules for what passes" -Paste Magazine Read more about the film here