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    Mixer Alan deGraaf joins Company 3 Toronto

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    TORONTO --

    Company 3 Toronto has added sr. re-recording mixer Alan deGraaf to its postproduction sound department. He joins Company 3 with 25 years of experience, most recently with Technicolor and Formosa. His credits include Guillermo del Toro’s series The Strain for the FX Network; the Naomi Watts thriller The Desperate Hour for Roadside Attractions; the MGM/Amblin production Billy the Kid for Epix and the internationally popular American Gods for Amazon Studios.  

    James Fraser, VP and general manager, Company 3 Toronto, said of deGraaf, “He is a very accomplished artist  who will provide our clients with another exceptional and creative voice.” 

    A native of the Toronto area, deGraaf received his diploma at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, with the intention of becoming a mixer for music, but as he learned more about postproduction sound for film and television, he discovered he loved it, and had a great aptitude for the work. He started in the Foley department of a boutique studio, where he learned all the fine points of sound mixing and worked his way into the mixer role.  

    “I’ve been very interested in the quality of the work that Company 3 has been doing in Toronto for a number of years,” said deGraaf. “Such great work has come out of their mixing stages–Nightmare Alley, The Shape of Water, and so much more. I can’t wait to get started!”  

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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