Post Break 20 - The Future of Post Production

Post New York Alliance Podcast

Post Break:The Future of Post Production (Audio)

The Future of Post Production

“The Future of Post Production” will explore a post-Covid view of what post production might look like based on needs and preferences, specifically, predictions on services and workflows creatives will want to continue to lean into because it provides them a flexible or more creative way of working. We will get specific to remote, hybrid and on-premises workflows for ADR, Color, Offline Editorial, Sound, and delivery.

Thursday, October 1st at 4pm EST via ZOOM

PANELISTS:
Chris Arruda, Post Supervisor

Chris began his career as a commercial producer. After a successful 26 year run producing TV campaigns, he made the switch to long form narrative post production. He cut his teeth as a post supervisor on shows like Happyish (Showtime), Vinyl (HBO), Gypsy (Netflix) and The Sinner (USA). Chris became head of post for Warrior (Cinemax) where he began his collaboration with showrunner Jonathan Tropper for 2 seasons on that fantastic show. He's now working with Tropper on Seasons 2 and 3 of SEE (Apple +)
Zak Tucker, CEO & President, HARBOR

Zak Tucker is the Co-Founder and CEO of HARBOR, a top-tier, global production and post-production studio serving the feature film, episodic, and advertising industries. For more than twenty years, he has been strategically disrupting to create the first end-to-end, cross genre, independent production studio of its kind.
Starting his career as an editor for commercials and documentaries, Zak soon progressed to directing. He launched Swete Post in 2000, which he grew successfully until the 2012 launch of HARBOR in Soho, NY. By 2018, Zak had built HARBOR from a staff of four and a footprint of 400 square feet, offering just two services, into a staff of one hundred and a campus of 70,000 square feet, offering the full range of production and post-production services. Zak’s skill, insight, business acumen, and holistic understanding of the creative community, have helped establish HARBOR’s reputation for delivering award-winning talent, service excellence, and technical innovation in a collaborative culture, as well as improving its financial performance year after year.
Notable feature and episodic post-production projects include, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino for Sony Entertainment, The Irishman, directed by Martin Scorcese for Netflix, Solo: A Star Wars Story, directed by Ron Howard for Lucasfilm, Ocean’s 8, directed by Gary Ross for Warner Bros., Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve for Paramount, Billions, created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin for Showtime, and Sweetbitter, executive produced by Stuart Zicherman for Starz. HARBOR’s advertising brand clients include American Express, Nike, Adidas, Swarovski, Gap, Victoria’s Secret, Dior, Versace, Estee Lauder, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Tide, Mercedes, Toyota, Walmart, Citibank, Eliquis, Humira, Sanofi, Bounty, Olay, Crest, and Cascade.

Peter Postma, Managing Director of FilmLight Americas

Peter is Managing Director of the Americas at FilmLight, developing tools incorporated into the Truelight and Baselight systems.
Previously Peter worked as a systems engineer at Eastman Kodak helping pioneer digital intermediate technology. Peter has taught seminars on colour management for production and post-production around the world and holds a BFA in Film and Animation from Rochester Institute of Technology.

MODERATOR:
Diana Dekajlo, Post Supervisor

Diana Dekajlo is a New York-based post production supervisor with extensive 4K/HDR experience. She began her career as a facility producer before moving to freelance post production supervising. She has experience in both the documentary and narrative spaces, including Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix), Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix), The Case Against Adnan Syed (HBO), Divorce (HBO), and the upcoming The Queen's Gambit (Netflix). She is a member of the Post New York Alliance and the Producers Guild of America.