Andrés G. Duarte

Founder / Supervising Sound Editor / Production Sound Recordist

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5530116/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Honors & Awards

Best Sound Design Award Winner

Festival Audiovisual Poporopo 2019 (Popcorn Film Festival 2019), Guatemala.

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Best Sound Award Winner

Icaro International Film Festival  XVII (Festival Ícaro XVII), Guatemala, 2014.

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German Press Conference Panelist  

Alongside Ben Burtt, 2-time Oscar Winner. Media Sound Hamburg, Germany, 2017

Bio

I have worked on more than 300 projects, amongst them Feature Films, TV Series, Documentaries, Short Films, Trailers, Promotional videos, Corporate videos, and Advertisements since 2011. Worked alongside Oscar, Grammy, Grammy Latino, and Golden Globe Awards winners and nominees.

I have learned from the professionals who worked in movies like Star Wars, Mission Impossible, James Bond, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Wonder Woman, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial amongst others. Most notably Ben Burtt: Sound Designer of Star Wars, Randy Thom: Director of sound design at Skywalker Sound, and James Mather: supervising sound editor for the Harry Potter films.

Also an avid guitar player. Experienced in music production, recording, and mixing. Played live in music festivals and small to medium venues for 8 years. And more than 8 years of teaching the art of sound for film in postsecondary institutions.

Optimus Sound

In early 2013, I founded Optimus Sound after the realization that the film industry was -trying- to grow in Guatemala, but there were virtually no sound studios or professionals who were truly devoted, fully immersed, or understood the art of cinema to support its growth. In light of this need, Optimus Sound started its operations and since then provided the best sound-for-film services in Guatemala.Now based in Vancouver, Canada, and can provide post production services anywhere in the world.

Services

We produce world-class sound for motion pictures, working together with the best around the world including award-winning talents.   

Sound Post Production

  • Sound Supervision

  • Sound design & editorial

  • Dialogue editing

  • Re-recording mixing

    • 7.1

    • 5.1

    • Stereo (social media, Tv, airplanes, etc.)

  • Foley

  • Foreign language dubbing

  • Audio reparation (we can repair noisy audio by removing hum, hiss, crackle, wind noise, overall ambient noise, etc.)

  • Voice talents -we work with a network of more than 200 world-class voice talents, with more than 25 languages available.

 

Production sound

Now based in Canada but available for travel.