About Us
The Sound On Sight Website:
Sound on Sight is not a general-interest magazine; we focus on film-literate, pop-culture savvy moviegoers with discerning tastes but broad palettes. We specialize in genre films, independent cinema, and documentaries.
We have contributors around the globe, from London, Chicago, New York, Austin, Toronto, Sydney and back to our home base of Montreal who cover various film festivals from around the world including the Fantasia Film Festival, Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma, Image/Nation, TIFF, Toronto After Dark, the Montreal World Film Festival, LIFF, Tribeca, SXSW, Cannes, Tribeca, New York Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and dozens more.
Sound On Sight Radio:
The Sound On Sight radio show was launched in late 2008 from the ashes of a previous podcast, The Naked Lunch. Our radio show is also featured in several high-traffic podcast sites (podcast alley, Itunes, Mevio). The podcast has received feedback from listeners in the US, several European countries, Asia, Australia, and South America. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film.
In October of 2009 we launched our monthly spin-off show Sordid Cinema, which focuses more on extreme and eccentric genre flicks, and in 2010, we started our TV coverage with our third show, a podcast devoted entirely to The Walking Dead TV series. Then in 2011, we added our Doctor Who podcast, and later that same year, launched both the blog’s TV section and our television podcast, The Televerse. Geared towards listeners with a passion for TV, The Televerse focuses on critical analysis of the best television has to offer, with weekly current and retrospective coverage.
Sound On Sight TV
In 2011, TV Editor Kate Kulzick joined Sound On Sight and launched both a TV section and a TV podcast (The Televerse).
Highlights:
Sound on Sight has been honored to interview a wide variety of filmmakers and performers. Among the list of interviewees is John Landis, Lucky McKee, Evan Glodell, George A. Romero, Frank Henenlotter, H.G. Lewis, Neil Marshall, Christopher Smith, Steven R. Monroe, Meir Zarchis, Jose Mojica Marins, Lee Demarbre, David Hess, Sasha Grey, Buddy Giovinazzo, Larry Fessenden and Jeff Malmberg. Our writers have also taken part in many world premieres and have been quoted in movie posters and DVDs for genre films. In September of 2010 an article on The Concordia link featuring an interview with Sound On Sight’s editor-in-chief Ricky D, called him an “internet sensation,” and recently producer/co-host Simon Howell was officially selected as a member of the OFCS (Online Film Critics Society). In our second season of Sound On Sight Radio, legendary Canadian film critic Al Kratina (of The Montreal Gazette) joined the team.
Two years after the formation of our website, Sound On Sight was nominated in the Media & Journalism, Podcast & Vlog, and won the Pop Culture & Entertainment categories of the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards. The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts from 20087 to 2011 (www.podcastawards.com), and reaches thousands of listeners every day.
In 2011 MovieMaker Magazine listed Sound On Sight as one of the ten best podcasts world wide, saying:
What makes Sound on Sight such an interesting podcast to listen to is that the hosts’ extensive film knowledge isn’t limited to just one type of movie. Hollywood blockbusters, indie art house films, B-movie splatter-fests – they know it all. When you listen to Sound on Sight, you get opinions on whether the movie is worth seeing or not, sure, but you’ll also hear how it fits in a wider context. For example, in an episode entitled “Thor, Marvel Studios and Kenneth Branagh,” the hosts begin with a review of Branagh’s Thor, then compared the film to other superhero movies and discussed Marvel Studios’ general release strategy and film critic A.O. Scott’s review of the film. Next up was a review of Branagh’s 1994 flop Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which led to a ramble on the suitability of gothic horror novels for film adaptations. All that in just under an hour? Other podcasts take that long just to get through their opening banter!
In 2011 Sound On Sight launched Front Row Center, a video-cast version of Sound On Sight Radio. Various hosts from the radio program take part in film reviews, focusing more on indie films and genre fare.
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