This week we had the pleasure to speak with the executive and creative team behind the recently formed post-production sound company Formosa Group.

Joining me in this roundtable discussion include President and COO, Bob Rosenthal, SVP Business Development & Operations Matt Dubin and a fantastic mixture of re-recording mixers, sound designers, and editors including Mark Mangini, Julian Slater, Greg Hedgepath, and Todd Toon.

This week we spoke with re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman who worked on Director Alex Gibney's music bio doc Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown.

Pioneering the journey from rhythm and blues to funk, James Brown forever changed the face of American music. Mr. Dynamite follows the journey of Brown as he escaped his impoverished Southern roots to become the biggest name in soul music, and one of the most important music talents of the 20th Century.

This week we spoke with Post Production Supervisor Paul Cichocki at Pixar Animation Studio.

Paul joined Pixar in 1999 during the production of toy story 2 and has supervised the post production on all feature and short films since then. He is responsible for many of the efforts that take place outside of the studio including actor recording sessions, music composition and recording, international translations and theatrical quality control. Cichocki also works very closely with the Skywalker Sound team where all of the studios films have been edited and mixed.

This week we spoke with John Midgley who is the production sound mixer on the film The Imitation Game Directed by Morten Tyldum.

The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch who portrays Alan Turing who is a British mathematician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist who was a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, which helped the Allies win the Second World War.

The film was shot over 9 weeks in various locations around England and we discuss the wide range of gear John uses while working with this talented ensemble.

This week we spoke with the sound team behind Director Richard Linklater’s American coming-of-age drama BOYHOOD.

For this interview I spoke with sound re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor Tom Hammond, sound recordist Ethan Andrus, sound mixer Ben Lowry, and sound recordist Ben Lazard about the technical and creative challenges of following a production which was shot over 12-years.

This week we spoke with Composer Clint Bajakian who worked on Blizzard studios video game World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor which sold over 3.3 million copies within the first 24 hours of being released.

Clint took on the task of working alongside six other composers who were all responsible to breathe life and the danger of war into this epic soundtrack that fans have associated with this incredible gaming experience.

This week we spoke with re-recording Mixer Mike Prestwood smith and re-recording mixer Michael Keller who worked on the film Into the Woods. This film is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale put to music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and Directed by Rob Marshall.

The music and sound team did a seamless job mixing and editing the actors musical performances and we explore the meticulous process required to bring this theatrical performance to the big screen.

This week we spoke with sound designer and supervising sound editor erik aadahl and supervising sound editor Eathan Van der Rhyn who worked on the recent reboot of GODZILLA, Directed by Gareth Edwards.

For anyone who is a fan of classic monster movies Godzilla is definitely on the top of everyones list. This incredible monster was brought to life by the photo realistic visual effects and dynamic sound work that these creative teams were able to produce.

We were really excited to reconnect with Eric and Ethan to talk about this film that came out earlier in the year and dive back in to the stories and experiences these two had to bring to life the monstrous sound of Godzilla.

This week we spoke with Composer Mark Henry Phillips, who is responsible for the music and audio mix for the extremely popular podcast series Serial.

Serial is produced by WBEZ Chicago and the shows Host and Executive Producer Sarah Koenig unfolds one nonfiction story, week by week, over the course of a season.

We discuss with Mark how he became involved in this project and the incredibly tight production window he has to score and mix each hour long episode the night before it’s posted each week. This is an incredible example of a creative team who know exactly how to pull in an audience and make them listen a little bit closer. So close in fact that you can almost see yourself at the scene of the crime.

This week we spoke with Robert Trujillo, who you might know as the bassist of Metallica and has been producing a music documentary called JACO about legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius.

We discuss how Robert first became interested in profiling such an iconic player and what it was like producing this film which includes interviews with Herbie Hancock, Flea, Wayne Shorter, Jerry Jemmott, Joni Mitchell, Bootsy Collins and Sting.