Sound Lounge has promoted Liana Rosenberg to head of production. As a member of the indie sound facility’s management team, Rosenberg will be responsible for overseeing all production activity at the studio and supervising its team of staff producers. She will serve as a key liaison between Sound Lounge and its advertising agency and postproduction house clients, and play a lead role in forecasting, budgeting and marketing. She will also manage production activities for Sound Lounge Everywhere, the company’s remote sound production service, which currently has outposts in Boston and Boulder, Colorado, and has plans to expand to other cities this year.
Sound Lounge COO and partner Marshall Grupp said, “We are departing from the traditional model for sound facilities in appointing someone to a management position who is focused exclusively on production. Liana will ensure that we continue to meet deadline, budget and creative commitments, and deliver excellence to our clients.”
Rosenberg joined Sound Lounge in 2016 and previously served as sr. producer. She has produced sound design, editorial and mixing sessions for scores of advertising campaigns, including work for Subway, IHOP, Bud Light, AT&T, Ford and FIFA World Cup. Her background also includes a production position with Hyperbolic Audio. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master’s degree from Universidad de Alcala in Spain.
Rosenberg sees her new role as an opportunity to apply her talents on a broader scale. She is particularly excited by the prospect of nurturing Sound Lounge Everywhere into a true national service.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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