Audio Post Production Scholarship

The Banff Centre’s audio program in the Music & Sound department is once again proud to present a scholarship at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The Audio Post Production scholarship will be given to a filmmaker submitting a film to the 2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival.

The purpose of the scholarship is to help filmmakers produce a quality soundtrack for their projects, while helping The Banff Centre further its goals in audio education. The scholarship is given in the form of time allotted for studio services and staff expertise in The Banff Centre’s facilities and is valued at approximately $10,000 CDN.

No official application is required. Film finalists in the 2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival competition will be adjudicated to find a filmmaker who has a project that includes, but is not limited to, the following criteria:

• film must be a documentary, dramatic, or animated short (less than 30 minutes in final length, including commercial breaks)
• scholarship will be for a current or future work
• all existing audio tracks must conform to the delivered picture
• access must be provided to the original music tracks and must conform to the delivered picture (ideally the multitrack files or surround mix, not just stereo)
• access must be provided to individual tracks of all source material including dialog, ambience, and effects
• a relatively clean recording of audio material must be supplied (subjective)
• filmmaker must supply The Banff Centre with picture as a Quicktime file (of a resolution specified by The Banff Centre) and any audio material as either a Protools session or as OMF/AAF
• filmmaker must supply ALL material to The Banff Centre within two years from the date of the application
• filmmaker would have the willingness and ability to re-record some elements if necessary
• Music & Sound reserves the right to not make a scholarship, and its decisions will be final

The Audio program at Banff

The Audio program at The Banff Centre has extensive experience in audio post-production for film and documentary including the feature length Way DownTown by Gary Burns, winner of the 2000 Toronto Film Festival and AMPIA award for best sound, and Kayak Islanda, winner of the best sports film at the 1998 Banff Mountain Film Festival. The studio facilities include a 56-channel fully automated Euphonix CS-3000 with up to 7.1 surround support, editing suite featuring 24 channels of ProTools with Yamaha DM-2000 console, Merging Technologies’ Pyramix hard-disk based recording and editing system, and real-time denoising by TC-Electronic.

Internationally renowned for its unique educational work-study opportunities, The Banff Centre's Audio program brings together talented individuals with diverse technical and artistic backgrounds from all over the world. The engineers in the program record an average of 20 high quality CD productions, audio post production for film and television, and approximately 250 concerts a year. Participants receive continuous guidance and mentoring from leading faculty in all branches of the audio industry. Past faculty have included Academy Award winner Shawn Murphy, Grammy Award winners Elliot Scheiner and George Massenburg, Skywalker Sound’s Leslie Ann Jones, and ORF’s Florian Camerer who pioneered surround production for documentary broadcasting. Alumni of the audio program have joined companies such as New Line Cinema, CBC, and 20th Century Fox Studios, among others.

For further information, please contact:

Chris Segnitz, Studio Manager
Music & Sound, The Banff Centre
chris_segnitz@banffcentre.ca