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Guntis Sics on Baz Luhrmann and Moulin Rouge!
Title:
Guntis Sics on Baz Luhrmann and Moulin Rouge!
NFSA ID
1526853
Year
2018
Production sound mixer Guntis Sics interviewed by Pamela Willis Burden.
In this clip Guntis talks about his long association with director Baz Luhrmann, the challenge of responding to Baz’s spontaneous creative ideas, and the nickname given to Baz by the First Nations actors on Australia (2008): the Comet.
Always in high demand for his exceptional skill as a sound engineer, Guntis has worked on dozens of films.
He has forged a close association with Baz Luhrmann, winning an Academy Award nomination and a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Sound on Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001).
Interviewer
Pamela Willis Burden
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.