Awards
Oscar for
Hacksaw Ridge
7 out of 10
Highest Grossing Australian Films
Academy Awards (Oscar)
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Best Achievement in Sound Mixing - Andy Wright
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- Moulin Rouge - 2002 - Best Sound - Roger Savage
- Shine - 1997 - Best Sound - Roger Savage
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA - previously the AFI Awards)
- Suzi Q - 2020 - Best Sound in a Documentary - David Williams
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2016 - Best Sound - Andy Wright
- Only The Dead - 2015 - Best Sound in a Documentary - Andy Wright and Chris Goodes
- Moulin Rouge - 2001 - Best Sound - Roger Savage
- Shine - 1996 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Muriel's Wedding - 1994 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Blood Oath - 1990 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Dead Calm - 1989 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Ground Zero - 1987 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Malcolm - 1986 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Street Hero - 1984 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Street Hero - 1984 - Byron Kennedy Award - Roger Savage
- Mad Max 2 - 1982 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
- Mad Max - 1979 - Best Achievement in Sound - Roger Savage
Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) - Golden Reel
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Best Sound Editing - Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film - Andy Wright
- Yi Dai Zong Shi (The Grandmaster) - 2014 - Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film - Chris Goodes
- Shi Mian Mai Fu (House of Flying Daggers) - 2005 - Best Sound Editing in Foreign Feature - Roger Savage
Australian Screen Sound Guild (ASSG)
- Suzi Q - 2020 - Best Sound for a Documentary - David Williams
- The Unlisted Ep 09 - 2020 - Best Sound for a Children's Programme - Andy Wright, Diego Ruiz, Will Carroll and Megan Howieson
- Inside Water - 2019 - Best Sound for a Live-Action Short Film - Andy Wright
- Peter Rabbit - 2018 - Andrew Plain Award for Best Film Sound Editing - Andy Wright
- Riot - 2018 - Best Sound for a Television Drama Series (Over 30 Minutes Duration) - Chris Goodes, Diego Ruiz and Lee Yee
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Mixing - Andy Wright
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Design - Andy Wright and Diego Ruiz
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - ASSG Members' Choice Award - Andy Wright and Diego Ruiz
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Feature Film Soundtrack of the Year - Andy Wright and Diego Ruiz
- Lost Property Office - 2017 - Best Achievement in Sound for an Animation Short Film or Program - Chris Goodes and Lee Yee
- The Ravens - 2017 - Best Sound for a Short Fiction Film - Andy Wright
- Monsieur Mayonnaise - 2016 - Best Achievement in Sound for a Documentary - Chris Goodes and Diego Ruiz
- The Dressmaker - 2016 - Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Mixing - Chris Goodes
- Only the Dead - 2015 - Best Achievement in Sound for a Documentary (Single or Episode) - Andy Wright, Chris Goodes and Diego Ruiz
- Charlie's Country - 2014 - Andrew Plain Award for Best Film Sound Design - Diego Ruiz
- Love in the Time of March Madness - 2014 - Best Achievement in Sound for an Animated Short Film or Program - Andy Wright
- Paul Kelly - Stories of Me - 2013 - Best Achievement in Sound for a Documentary - Andy Wright
- Lifetime Achievement Award - 2012 - Roger Savage
- Killer Elite - 2012 - Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Mixing - Andy Wright and Chris Goodes
- The Missing Key - 2011 - Best Achievement in Sound for an Animation - Andy Wright
- Beneath Hill 60 - 2010 - Best Achievement in Sound for a Feature Film - Sound Design - Andy Wright
- Shi Mian Mai Fu (House of Flying Daggers) - 2005 - Feature Film Soundtrack of the Year - Roger Savage
- Shi Mian Mai Fu (House of Flying Daggers) - 2005 - Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Design - Roger Savage and Chris Goodes
- The Quiet American - 2003 - Soundtrack of the Year - Roger Savage
- Moulin Rouge - 2001 - Best Achievement in Sound for a Feature Film - Effects Editing - Roger Savage
Hong Kong Film Awards
- Chi Bi (Red Cliff) - 2009 - Best Sound Design - Roger Savage
International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF)
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Best Sound Editing - Andy Wright
Satellite Awards
- Hacksaw Ridge - 2017 - Best Sound (Editing & Mixing) - Andy Wright
Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA)
- Grace - 2020 - Best Narrative Film - Gemila Iezzi (Producer)
Team
Our Team
Andy Wright
Ralph Ortner
David Williams
Rui Li
Lee Yee
Joel Plunkett
Megan Howieson
Michael Zachariou
Will Carroll
Owen Grieve
Gemila Iezzi
Skye Hollingsworth
Keilah Rafel Motta Pirotelli
Bruce Emery
Ross Mitchell
Shaun Richards
Veronica Lynch
Roger Savage
Contact
Melbourne
23-31 Fennell Street, Port Melbourne VIC 3207
Sydney
100 Queen Street, Beaconsfield NSW 2015
Beijing
No 1 Disheng West Road
Yizhuang Economic – Tech Development District Beijing
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Soundfirm is Australia’s largest post-production company, operating award-winning facilities in Melbourne, Sydney and Beijing.
For more than 37 years, we’ve been providing sound and picture services for local and international films, all the while staying at the forefront of the latest industry developments.
In each city our facilities are housed under the one roof and expressly designed to integrate the picture and sound pipeline for a seamless workflow.
We offer sound, picture, VFX, data management and on-set dailies.
Our in-house editors, sound designers and mixers can be backed up as needed with top-line freelancers, providing flexibility of resources throughout the production.
If you require a complete end-to-end sound / picture / VFX service, we can supply everything as a quoted package, or alternatively provide any of the individual services as dry hire.
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All your post production needs under one roof:
- VFX
- Colour Grading
- Online Editing
- Dailies
- Offline Editing Suite Rental
- Picture Deliverables
- Sound Mixing
- Sound Design
- ADR
- Sound Editing Suite Rental
- English Dubbing
- Sound Deliverables
View our 2020 VFX Reel
Our facilities have earned the respect of many well-known directors:
Picture
Visual Effects (VFX)
Soundfirm recently opened a VFX department specifically designed to offer high end performance for local films. Using industry standard software such as Nuke, Flame, Maya and Unity at our core, our team also leverages cutting edge technology such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our efficient, targeted, and versatile approach, allows us to achieve the best possible results, while remaining budget conscious to your project.
Find your camera angles and get your coverage in a virtual environment before you arrive on set, using real-world scales, lenses, and camera body information.
Our team can work with your crew to ensure that your VFX are shot in the most effective way possible, maximising your result without bloating the budget.
Walk down the hallway and have a chat with the VFX team while looking at your edit or full-res media. Want to see it projected in a colour calibrated theatre? We can do that too.
View our 2020 VFX Reel
Colour Grading
Our picture department is the most advanced in Australia. We can handle files of all sizes, from HD to 3D IMAX and 8K. Our grading rooms are set up for HDR / Dolby Vision grading.
Your choice of graders is not limited to our in-house team. Our open-door policy means you have the broadest choice of creative personnel.
Online Editing
Our online edit suites use the most advanced equipment and technology giving you super fast finishing and mastering whilst conforming to the highest technical standards. Our flexible infrastructure allows us to accommodate any format from 4K and beyond to meet the demanding delivery requirements for today and tomorrow.
Combining the very latest in leading edge technical workflows with the industries best creative talent we offer the perfect blend of artistic excellence and technical precision for theatrical and television finishing.
Graded vs Ungraded
Check out how important colour grading is and what it can bring to your project
Dailies
Whether in-house or on location, data wrangling and DIT services are fully supported. Our service offer includes remote AVID offline editorial, on set colour and a secure rushes viewing platform. All our operators are well versed in Scratch and Resolve, and deploy a great amount of care when copying, encoding and archiving RAW camera data and sound recordings.
Deliverables
Deliverables are often difficult to get right and costly if they fail, that’s why we make sure that they are correct when they go out the door. Soundfirm has vast experience successfully delivering to all the major Hollywood studios and streaming services.
Offline Avid Rooms
We offer picture editing suites in-house that come fully serviced and are networked to our screening rooms for instant cut previewing. We can also accommodate remote location offline editing.
Our facilities have earned the respect of many well-known directors:
Sound
Sound Mixing
We were the first company to have a Dolby Atmos mixing room in the country and we now have two in Melbourne and two in Sydney. All our sound rooms offer unparalleled acoustic environments with connectivity of the highest order.
Sound Design
Our highly experienced in-house sound supervisors and designers can put together the perfect sound crew for your project using a combination of in house and freelance artists that we know and trust. Soundfirm is a one stop facility offering an extensive range of services for sound. On top of mixing for TV and theatrical we offer sound design, sound editing, ADR and Foley.
ADR
Automated Dialogue Replacement
Our ADR recording suites are without doubt the most advanced in the country. The custom software cueing system takes the stress out of the recording process for actors and directors alike.
English Dubbing
Soundfirm is renowned for high-quality, affordable English dubbing & foreign language dubbing. Our in-house director works with a team of highly skilled, accomplished actors to deliver you the best quality English dubbing service tailored to your budget. We manage every step of your project and provide a comprehensive voice dubbing service that covers all of your needs whether it be for television or film.
