SoundWorks Collection Interview Series - Tom Fleischman - Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

This week we spoke with re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman who worked on Director Alex Gibney’s music bio doc Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown.

ABOUT TOM FLEISCHMAN:

Tom Fleischman is an American sound engineer and Re-recording mixer. He is the son of film editor Dede Allen, and documentary producer, director, and writer Stephen Fleischman. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978. He won an Academy Award in 2011 in the category Best Sound Mixing for Hugo and has received four other Oscar nominations for Reds (1982), The Silence of the Lambs (1992), Gangs of New York (2003), and The Aviator (2005).

In addition to his work in feature films he has also done work in television, winning four Emmy Awards in 1986 for ABC Afterschool Specials: Can A Guy Say No, in 2006 for Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, in 2013 for History of the Eagles, Boardwalk Empire: The Milkmaid’s Lot and also garnered Emmy nominations for Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, and the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire.

ABOUT MR. DYNAMITE: THE RISE OF JAMES BROWN:

Pioneering the journey from rhythm and blues to funk, James Brown forever changed the face of American music. Mr. Dynamite follows the journey of Brown as he escaped his impoverished Southern roots to become the biggest name in soul music, and one of the most important music talents of the 20th Century. The film utilizes never-before seen concert footage and photographs, interviews of Brown from a variety of sources (including vintage TV series like The Mike Douglas Show and Soul Train), and recent insights from band members and others who knew and were influenced by the singer, to tell the remarkable story of this supremely gifted and enormously influential American musical icon. Among the James Brown personal and professional milestones chronicled.

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