About Us

WHAT IS THE CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY?

Active Members are Mixers (Production and Post Production, Film and Video) who work on Feature Films, Television, and Commercials, as well as Mixers who specialize in Music Scoring, Video Post Sweetening, A.D.R. and Foley.

Associate Members are Sound Specialists, such as Sound Editors, Technicians, Recordists, and Microphone Boom Operators. Corporate Membership is open to companies in the Audio and Video Fields.

The CAS holds educational meetings throughout the year on topics of interest to those in our industry. Our meetings in the past have included Dialogue: from the Microphone to the Screen, and Wireless Microphone Symposiums, The Dialogue Pre-Dub Forum, a demonstration of Digital Post Production and Digital Sound Effects Editing, and a symposium on Digital Multi-Track Formats – Their Uses and Abuses. CAS members and their guests are welcome and encouraged to attend.

In addition, each year the CAS hosts its Awards Banquet to bestow the CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for both Feature Films and Television, as well as to honor Academy Award Nominees and Emmy Award Winners for Best Sound. This is also the occasion on which the CAS presents its Career Achievement Award. Past honorees include Ray Dolby, Robert Altman, Jack Solomon, John Bonner, Bill Varney, Don Rogers, Walter Murch, Jim Webb, Richard Portman and Tomlinson Holman.

The CAS is a philanthropic, non-profit organization. We currently contribute to the House Ear Institute. We also publish the CAS Quarterly, and The CAS Membership and Industry Directory.

The Cinema Audio Society’s goal is to be THE organization for Sound Professionals in the Motion Picture and Television Industry. We need your support and involvement to make it happen!

POSITION STATEMENT

1.To educate and inform the general public and the motion picture & television industry that effective sound is achieved by a creative, artistic and technical blending of diverse sound elements.

2.To provide the motion picture & television industry with a progressive society of master craftsmen specialized in the art of creative cinematic sound recording.

3.To advance the specialized field of cinematic sound recording by exchange of ideas, methods, and information.

4.To advance the art of auditory appreciation, and to philanthropically support those causes dedicated to the sense of hearing.

5.To institute and maintain high standards of conduct and craftsmanship among our members.

6.To aid the motion picture & television industry in the selection and training of qualified personnel in the unique field of cinematic sound recording.

7.To achieve for our members deserved recognition as major contributors to the field of motion picture & television entertainment.

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CAS Board of Directors 2011

Officers
President David E. Fluhr, CAS
Vice President John Coffey, CAS
Treasurer Peter R. Damski, CAS
Secretary David J. Bondelevitch, CAS

Directors
Deb Adair, CAS
Bob Bronow, CAS
Ed Greene, CAS
Tomlinson Holman, CAS
Paul Vik Marshall, CAS
Scott Millan, CAS
Frank Morrone, CAS
Lee Orloff, CAS
Lisa Piñero, CAS
Greg P. Russell, CAS
Jeff Wexler, CAS

Alternates
Bob Beemer, CAS
R.D. Floyd, CAS
Joe Foglia, CAS
Philip Palmer, CAS

Former Presidents
1966-1967 Robert B. Hoyt, CAS
1968 James G. Stewart, CAS
1969-1970 Arthur Piantadosi, CAS
1971-1972 Carroll Pratt, CAS
1973-1974 Tex Rudloff, CAS
1975 James Aicholz, CAS
1976 David Dockendorf, CAS
1977 Bill Varney, CAS
1978-1979 James R. Cook, CAS
1980 James A. Corbett, CAS
1981 Michael Minkler, CAS
1982 Tex Rudloff, CAS
1983 Gary Bourgeois, CAS
1984-1988 James A. Corbett, CAS
1988-1991 David M. Weishaar, CAS
1991-1994 Edwin J. Somers, CAS
1995-1996 Robert Deschaine, CAS
1997-1998 Steve Hawk, CAS
1999-2002 Melissa S. Hofmann, CAS
2003-2006 Richard Lightstone, CAS
2007-2010 Edward L. Moskowitz, CAS