Eleven months after the merger of Tattersall Sound and Casablanca Sound & Picture, Toronto post facility Tattersall Casablanca is glowing about its recent success on the awards circuit.

At press time, the shop was keeping its fingers crossed that it would take home the award for outstanding achievement in sound editing at the 28th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for its work on The Sandy Bottom Orchestra. The recently aired Showtime MOW tells the story of a musically inclined family (Glenne Headly, Tom Irwin and Madeline Zima) that feels stifled in a rural U.S. town. They plan a classical concert to bring both themselves and the community together.

TC dialogue editor Janice Ierulli and sound effects editor Mark Shnuriwsky share the nomination with music editor Steve Rowe. The team is up against sound editor Susan Pelino for her work on MTV’s Journey of Dr. Dre. The Creative Craft Daytime Emmys were scheduled for May 12 in New York at the Marriott Marquis Hotel and in Los Angeles at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.

Earlier this year, TC was awarded a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for best sound editing in television: miniseries (dialogue and ADR) for Nuremberg, the Alliance Atlantis Communications/Productions La Fete mini about the trials of the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust.

Supervising sound editor/dialogue editor Richard Cadger and ADR editor Ronayne Higginson share the award. TC rerecording/ADR mixers Lou Solakofski, Orest Sushko and Ian Rankin were also instrumental in the project.

On the Canadian awards scene, TC won for achievement in sound editing at the Genies in January for Love Come Down, which was shared by David McCallum, Fred Brennan, Susan Conley, Steven Hammond, Garrett Kerr, Jane Tattersall and Robert Warchol. It also picked up a couple of Geminis last fall: best sound editing in a dramatic program or series for Tattersall, Cadger, McCallum and Donna Powell for Dead Aviators; and best sound in an information/documentary program or series for Peter Sawade, Eric Apps, Elma Bello, Alison Clark, Steve Hammond and Dino Pigat for Legacy of Terror: The Bombing of Air India.

TC’s mixing department recently finished 51st State, the AAC/Focus Films/Industry Entertainment feature starring Samuel Jackson as an illegal drug chemist who travels to Liverpool to insinuate himself in the local rave scene to market his latest creation. TC spokesman Robert White says the project gave the shop an opportunity to use its newly installed automated Harrison Console board, a brand commonly employed on Hollywood features.

TC has expanded subsequent to the merger, opening a new video-finishing department as well as two mixing stages for fact-based TV programming, to meet the increased audio-quality demands coming with the rise of DVD and high-definition TV.

TC Video and TC Audio join Calibre Digital Pictures in the triumvirate of AAC post companies, and AAC plans to have the three facilities share dailies, edit, and generate special effects seamlessly using new Avid solutions.

‘With the Avid Symphony, a typical online system, you’re moving tapes around,’ White comments. ‘But because we use central storage, we can have color correction people, the online editor and the effects guy all working on the same piece at the same time.’ *

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Mark Dillon