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Patrick Knipe

Patrick Knipe
Patrick was born and raised on the edges of the wilderness in the valley-nestled town of Vernon, NJ. Growing up surrounded by heavily forested rolling hills, Revolutionary War Era hamlets, and fog-haunted lakes inspired his imagination into the realms of storytelling and filmmaking at an early age.

Patrick has a degree in English from Boston College. He also studied English, American, and Irish Literature at St. Edmund Hall of Oxford University in the UK. Before heading West to film school, Patrick worked as a radiology network departmental coordinator, a medical credientialer, a dog kennel assistant, a landscaper, library assistant, food slop dining hall server, museum grunt, and baseball umpire and soccer referee.

Patrick holds an MFA in Film and TV Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He was a recipient of the Mary Pickford Foundation Scholarship, and a 2008 finalist for the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award. In additional to sound designing and mixing award winning films and commercials, Patrick has lectured on film sound mixing in the USC Graduate Film Program. His recent film SCARECROW has played at 20 festivals and garnished 10 awards. He was the 2010 Recipient of the Verna Fields Award for Sound Editing at the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards.

As a technically trained violinst who likes to Irish fiddle Patrick loves to combine the same sort of playfulness with his technical expertise in sound design. His mission is to entertain, delight, and help bring stories to the flickering screen that captivate and move the soul. CLICK HERE TO VIEW RESUME


Stephanie Willis
Stephanie was born and raised in rural Ohio.  Her childhood was composed of acres of open, remote farmland and hours of tedium.  She dove into her imagination from an early age, creating stories and make-believe adventures to fill her days.  Filmmaking naturally seemed like an appropriate fit.

Stephanie went on to study Film & Television Studies and Theatre at Dartmouth where she received an academic citation for “outstanding merit as a filmmaker” and was honored with the Maurice Rapf Film Award.

Stephanie Willis

Upon graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth, Stephanie immediately began her graduate work at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she fell in love with the art of sound design.  She worked with industry veterans Douglas Vaughan and Midge Costin to learn the inner workings of both production and post-production sound, earning her an esteemed Annenberg Fellowship.  She was also a recipient of a Fuji Grant, the Francis Lyon Filmmaking Scholarship, and an Irving Learner Finishing Fund Grant. She was also named a Leopold Schepp Scholar for her work in filmmaking.

Stephanie has recently graduated with an MFA from USC, and is excited about the launch of Soundhenge and the latest chapter in her career.  She has a desire to continue enriching film one sound effect at a time.  After all, nothing absorbs you into a new world like encompassing sound.

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