Will Cox
CEO, Supervising Colorist
CEO, Supervising Colorist
With a background in art history and engineering, Will is known for his breadth of knowledge, both aesthetic and technical.
Will started his career at Tekserve in 1995 where he founded the video department. On the side he edited underground video features as part of nuBright Solutions, a collective of artist/filmmakers populating the young internet with indie films. After teaching editing for the Ford Foundation in Africa, he worked at Oxygen Media as the Senior Engineer. Will co-founded Final Frame in 2001.
Will has been color grading independent films for the past 13 years. His credits include the 2010 and 2011 Oscar winning documentaries The Cove and Inside Job, as well as a number of Oscar nominees and festival award winners such as Obvious Child (Sundance 2014), Cutie and the Boxer (Academy Award Nominee 2014), Sleepwalk With Me(Best of Next!, Sundance 2013), Dinosaur 13 (Sundance 2014) and It Felt Like Love (Sundance 2013).
Sandy Patch
CTO
CTO
Originally from Maryland, Sandy began his career working on independent films in New York. After a few years of editing, Sandy joined the Final Frame team in 2005, where he graded festival-bound films and television series. In 2009 he moved to California and worked at Company 3 in Santa Monica, where he headed the company’s digital lab, wrote all of the department’s custom software and developed 3D workflows for films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers and Fright Night.
In 2012 his short documentary El Último Hielero (The Last Ice Merchant) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has since won numerous awards including Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival and the Boston Independent Film Festival.
Sandy returned to Final Frame in 2011 where he now leads the engineering team.
Simon Marbrook
Director of Film Services
Director of Film Services
With over 20 years experience in the post and lab services, specializing in digital restoration and archive preservation, Simon has worked on and managed projects as diverse as the World at War to Queen Live in Budapest to Lion in Winter 1968. He has well managed the digitization of several prestigious archives.
Simon started his career at the Machine Room where he got a good grounding in the fundamentals of video and film, a frustrated VT op who fell into restoration and is much happier fixing faults rather than just pointing them out. He has also previously worked at Telecine Ltd, Dubbs-Eyeframe, Premier and Cinelab London before joining Final Frame Post this year.
Daryl Lathon
Facilities Manager
Facilities Manager
Daryl Lathon is an accomplished actor, having worked professionally for over 20 years. He has performed with numerous theatre companies including The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C. and Theatre Virginia in Richmond, VA. In New York he has appeared in productions by Soho Rep, Red Bull Theatre, and The Mint Theatre. After receiving his MFA from VCU, Daryl moved to New York and continued his acting career. He also expanded into film production with PROACTIVE (PROfessional ACTors collectIVE). There he served as one of the executive producers of PROACTIVE 00:12:24:10 films. His responsibilities included writing, directing, or editing many of the 00:12:24:10 films. Through his PROACTIVE experience Daryl has developed into an accomplished filmmaker, receiving accolades for his work on a number of short films including President of the Fan Club, Anniversary Dinner, Sunshine, and the web series Clean Kill.
Stewart Griffin
Senior Colorist
Senior Colorist
Stewart has been working in the business since 1995, first as an Assistant Director, then as a dailies colorist at PostWorks, before moving to Final Frame in 2008.
As senior colorist he has graded scores of film and television projects including the Oscar-nominated documentary Hell and Back Again, the 5 features by filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg including Knuckleball! and Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, as well as Jim: The James Foley Story, Happy Valley, We Could Be King and Ivory Tower. He has finished television projects for HBO, OWN, ESPN, Discovery and many others, including A Crime to Remember, This is Life with Lisa Ling, The West and Homicide.
Esme Smith
Senior Colorist
Senior Colorist
Esme has been working in the New York City post production community since 2007. The University of Kansas graduate began her career as an editor and motion graphics artist with CBS News. At Technicolor-PostWorks (2008-2017), Smith expanded her skill set to encompass editorial finishing, color grading, and visual effects. After departing Technicolor-PostWorks, she spent two years in commercial visual effects, specializing in beauty work and creative look integration. She has applied her talents to projects ranging from Netflix, documentaries, independent features and commercials. Notable long format projects include The Big Sick, Strong Island, The Americans, The Jinx, and feature doc “Ailey” premiering at Sundance 2021.
She loves collaborating with directors to bring new life to their images. Harnessing a wide skill set, Esme often finds unconventional solutions to elevate a director’s vision and execute them effortlessly.
A student of the latest post technologies, she enjoys both the variety of her work and the opportunity to use post-production tools in creative and innovative ways. She is currently a Senior Colorist at Final Frame in New York.
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Drew Kilgore
Post Production Manager / Colorist
Post Production Manager / Colorist
Having spent his early career in audio production, Drew made the switch to video post production in 2011, joining Final Frame as an Online Editor. He has since overseen the conform and completion of a wide variety of films and television series, including Life Animated, Mavis!, Weiner, Obvious Child, and Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life. In 2016, Drew began working as a colorist, most recently grading Bravo’s Southern Charm. Currently, Drew also manages the online team and post production process at Final Frame, New York.
Peter Lynch
Colourist
Colourist
Peter is a respected colourist with over 30 years experience. Originally BBC trained, he has subsequently freelanced at nearly all of the UK’s most prestigious post houses and is highly sought after. His specialities include television, features and concerts . Peter will get the very best out of your source material whether it is film, tape or digital.
To look at Pete’s CV just turn on the television, as Pete’s work is on every night of the week. From the BBC to Sky Arts, The Rolling Stones to Top Gear, The World at War to The Lion In Winter (1968).
Susumu Asano
Colourist
Colourist
Susumu graduated from National Film and Television School in London with a postgraduate degree in Post Production. He started out as a creative editor at SJW and advanced his career in becoming a product manager and colorist at Digital Vision. He has developed his skillset and been working in the post industry for 10 years.
Susumu has worked as a freelance colorist for various established London companies including Matador Pictures, Pepper and Recipe. His job involves him travelling extensively around the world, grading projects in numerous countries such as China, India and Germany. Susumu has graded commercials for prestigious labels such as Armani, Levi’s and Samsung. He has demonstrated his talent in music videos for music artists including Snoop Dogg and Plan B. His work has been notably selected for festivals around the globe including Berlin, Edinburgh Film Festival and Raindance. He most recently graded a feature for the Istanbul Film Festival. He has a broad scope and creative artistry of his craft and has an ethnically diversified portfolio with clients of all different cultures.
Kevin Allen Caby
Online Editor
Online Editor
Kevin graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Film and Video Production with a focus in Cinematography. While in school Kevin completed a post production internship with Emmy Award winning Journalist Bill Kurtis at Kurtis Productions. Kevin spent time in Chicago shooting and editing independent films and documentaries where he was credited as additional camera for the official Sundance Film Festival entry “We’re Not Broke.” Kevin Moved to New York in 2012 where he started working as a camera assistant for fashion video shoots and worked at a local camera rental house. Kevin turned his attention back to post production when he joined the Final Frame team in 2015 as an online editor.
Ben Kiviat
Online Editor
Online Editor
Originally from Monroe, New York, Ben graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 with a BFA in Film, with concentrations in screenwriting and editing. In his senior year, he was offered a position at Prime Focus as a Data Operator where he worked for the next five years. There, he was able to hone his skills as a technician and editor, doing QC work for IFC Films, A&E, and Criterion.
Ben is also a self-taught 2D Compositor, specializing particularly in beauty work, object removal, and rotoscoping. Since 2012, he has freelanced for major clients such as Beats by Dre and Lego.
Ben came to Final Frame in 2016, combining these technical and creative skills as a graphics and online editor. His recent credits include One Child Nation, which won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and The Neighbors’ Window, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2020 Academy Awards.
Anthony Campagna
Online Editor / Colorist
Online Editor / Colorist
Originally from the Midwest, Anthony moved to NYC to follow his passion for film. Since then he’s worked as a colorist for clients such as Complex Media, BBDO Studios, and Sappora, as well as independent filmmakers. He was first welcomed to the professional post world by Company 3 before moving to Final Frame. Here he handles conforms, color grading, and VFX, working hand in hand with clients and distribution platforms including Netflix, HBO, and Showtime.
Steve Quinlan
Online Editor / Film Technician
Online Editor / Film Technician
Steve earned his BFA from Ithaca College’s Park School of Communications in 2006 and moved to NYC to work as an editor for The NewsMarket. He moved to Austin, TX in 2010 to produce video content for the SXSW Film Festival and worked as a freelance editor and colorist. In 2014 he earned a Film/Video MFA from MassArt, studying under avant-garde-master Saul Levine, and projecting for him at Boston Film Society. He worked as a film technician for Light Industry and DiJiFi in Brooklyn before being joining Final Frame in 2018. His found-footage films have screened all over the US, as well as Canada, Chile, Germany and Russia.
Soheil Khoshab
Online Editor / Film Technician
Online Editor / Film Technician
After graduating from film school in Tehran in 2007, Soheil worked in Iranian cinema as an assistant editor, colorist and editor on short films, feature films and documentaries collaborating frequently with Bahram Beyzai, a critically acclaimed Iranian filmmaker. His education was enhanced through participation in legendary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s experimental film making workshop and earning a degree in art photography under the mentorship of Mehran Mohajer.
After moving to the United States in 2016 he started working as a film technician at DiJiFi in Brooklyn. He joined the Final Frame team in 2018 to scan archival film for Apollo 11 and is currently sharpening his skills in post production as an online editor and film technician.
When not at Final Frame he can be found doing photography on the street.
Mike Frank
Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Mike Frank has more than 20 years of experience in post audio and joined Final Frame in 2013. He graduated from Columbia College film school in Chicago in 1996 and in 2001 relocated to New York to pursue his audio career. After spending several years working as an award-winning theatrical sound designer, on-set production mixer, post sound editor, and re-recording mixer, he was hired to establish and manage the sound department at Final Frame. Since then, he has collaborated with Owner/CEO Will Cox to build multiple sound edit and mix rooms that include three home and theatrical Dolby Atmos mix stages equipped with Avid S6 consoles.
In addition to his technical skills, Mike brings a sense of creative exploration and a collaborative spirit to the work. He understands the level of commitment needed to achieve great results.
Mike has completed projects for Disney+, Netflix, HBO, PBS, Showtime, Nat Geo, and many others. He has worked on
award-winning projects that have premiered at film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, TIFF, and more. His commercial sound design credits include work for Nike, Walmart, Nokia, Pepsi, J&J, among others.
Annie Medlin
Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Annie Medlin is a sound mixer with an ecletic body of work in both the studio and the field. Originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, she is a BFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
After several years working on the sets of independent films, Annie made the switch to full-time post production audio mixing. With experience in the full workflow of audio recording and mixing, she brings a unique perspective to her mixes, both creatively and technically.
Her work has screened at festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW. Her TV credits include work for HGTV, AMC, Showtime, and the History Channel.
Alex Loew
Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
Alex received an audio engineering degree from Indiana University, and in 2008 moved to NYC to pursue his first job in post production. His experience in audio runs the gamut, from working as a technician and engineer in music studios to independently editing and mixing short-form narrative work. From technical studio design to sound design, Alex brings a multi-faceted understanding of audio workflow with an open mind to always keep learning and discovering sonic unknowns.