Here's the "spot" for you to meet your fellow members.
This is where WIF.D will lightheartedly spotlight one of its own.
Get your answers ready because you never know whom we'll vote on asking next.
Feel free to recommend someone that you would like to toss in the limelight by
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In the Spotlight with New Corporate Member Robin Gormly - Owner of Sync Point Post and Editor on TV Junkie (2006 Jury Prize Winner Sundance Film Festival)
How did you get started in this Industry?
Education. I sat down at an edit bay getting my masters and have never seemed to come out of it. I am fortunate enough to have built my own post house (Sync Point Post) with the help of friends and a supportive husband.
How did you get involved with Women In Film.Dallas?
I thought it would be a good way to help with the awareness of Sync Point and Lynne Reynolds invited me.
Who is your role model? Mentor?
My role models are Thelma Schoonmaker and Barbara McLean. My mentors are my parents.
What is your favorite part about working in this Industry?
When your idea as an editor works.
What area in the Industry would you still like to learn about? Or intrigues you?
Furthering my Avid knowledge as well as learning the DS. How to market my company in ways which promote other small companies and help strengthen the network which I believe is critical to our success.
How do you feel about your role as a female in this Industry?
I feel that females are making their mark with perseverance and creativity.
What project are you currently working on?
We are editing a pilot for television, an industrial and a cooking show.
Who would you like to work with in the future?
Anyone who helps me explore the process and doesn’t inhibit it.
As a child, what occupation did you imagine yourself in before you became involved in this business?
Architecture
What is your best production war story?
When we had to re-edit portions of TV Junkie with less than 24 hours before our premiere at Sundance.
Do you have a favorite Book? Musical? Play? Film?
Musical – West Side Story Play – Art Film – which genre? Way too tough to answer.
What is your favorite color?
Green for clothing, pink for flowers.
What is in your CD player? Ipod?
Elvis Costello, Janis Joplin, Coldplay, Queen, Prince
What would you like to leave as a legacy?
Two kids who liked being around me.
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