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Welcome

2026
02.06

Welcome to Mr Steve Productions! My name is Stephen Goldsmith (AKA Mr Steve). I am a prize-winning sound designer and educator. I specialise in sound for feature films (Click here to verify 75 credits via imdb). I like fresh challenges and have quite a few other strings to my bow outside of Film and TV. Ask me if you want to know more!

I completed an MA in Sound Design for the Moving Image, moved to London and spent 15 years there, working throughout the location and post audio production chain. I then moved to Adelaide with my family. Here I have my own studio and field recording equipment. I work on local, interstate and international content.

I have also gained considerable experience as a lecturer, tutor, consultant and course designer along the way. I worked as a sound/educational consultant for the Guardian (UK),tutor for the Met Film School, lecturer for UniSA and spent a fair part of 2025 writing course content and specing out new kit for Adelaide University. I will be working for them in 2026. I enjoy all aspects of teaching. I learn as much from my students as I pass on to them.

This site has three functions:

1)Online CV: To quickly find out a bit about me as an individual, the services I offer and the prizes I have won, click along the tabs at the top.

You can verify my work using this imdb link or explore my LinkedIn Profile.

2) Audio blog. I like to write a little about the projects I have been working on and give updates on screenings, trailers etc.. Either scroll down or use tabs/tag cloud on the left to look up specific films.

3) Extras: A place to post and distribute some of my side projects from time to time.( I have written a couple of shorts and other sound based projects along the way)

I hope you enjoy the site.

Cheers,

Steve (Mr)

Queensland Rainforest
Rio Supermarket Ambience (I know how to have fun)
London Protest recording/ Child Wrangling (mine)
In The Hot Seat- Mixing at Ealing Studios-London
Arsenal, Emirates Stadium Dressing Room (Sound Designer for Puma Viral)

 

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Songs Inside: Now Available on iView

2026
02.05

Songs Inside won ‘Best Documentary’ on its debut at the Adelaide Film Festival. It then picked up the ‘Documentary Australia Award’ at the Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for ‘Best Documentary Sound’ at the 2026 AACTAs. It is now viewable on iview on ABC Australia (Link available here). Trailer below:

 Quote taken from the Sydney Film Festival (Source viewable here):

“The winner of the SFF Best Documentary is Songs Inside – a portrayal of how, even in the most unlikely of circumstances, music can unexpectedly lift the hope and the lives of people. The film was so intimate and rewarding, we cared so much for its incarcerated characters, it completely touched our hearts.”

I worked alongside Tom Heuzenroeder (re-recording mixer/ sound designer) and Jakub Gaudasinski (orchestral mix engineer)  As well as editing the sync sound and supplying the sound effects and foley, I also supplied surround sound recordings I made of Adelaide Women’s Prison. I enjoyed working on this one. It was also a rare occurrence to make use of the ukuleles and double bass I have at home as Foley props!

Update 07/Feb/2026

Click here for an article which follows up on two prisoner featured in the film, their feelings regarding their involvement in the Songbirds Programme and difficulties encountered by ex-prisoners who are trying to pick up their lives after serving a sentence in custody.

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Innovation In Teaching Award

2025
09.01

I have been tutoring and lecturing at UniSA since 2018, Mostly through the ‘Screen Sound’ course which I helped to design and then delivered. This prize was for a pilot course where I designed and delivered the training for a few students so that they were ready to record sound on set at the ABC, Adelaide studios, then complete the post production. All the students worked hard and I was pleased with the progress they made.

This year I have been involved in writing the new ‘Screen Sound’ course for Adelaide University. Thinking about what AI means in terms of vocational training, how we assess things and what it means for future careers has taken some time, but I think the course is now in a good place. I will post more when the course is up and running.

Below, a photo I took on set at the ABC from behind the sound recordist desk as we were preparing for a shot.

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Fear Below Cinema Release

2025
06.16

FEAR BELOW won the Best Australian Feature Film award at the Monster Fest film festival and hits the Australian big screen next week! Australia Tickets at
Cinema Nova – https://lnkd.in/gBmCZkA8
Ritz Randwick – https://lnkd.in/g_n-mNSK

I spent a chunk of my summer holidays sat in a pool messing around with hydrophones, then sat on dry land crunching vegetables, sourcing things to sound like vintage diving gear etc.

It is now available worldwide on various platforms. As of 12 June it was at # 3 in the HBO movie downloads.

Photo below is from the shoot at the South Australian Film Corporation.

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Brando With A Glass Eye

2025
02.07

I  edited the foley for this. It is a strong, ensemble-piece, set in contemporary Athens with a ’70s arthouse vibe. You can see this for yourself in the the trailer I have posted above. The film had a great run on the festival circuit and was the first Greek-language film ever selected for Slamdance’s Official Selection ‘Narrative Feature’ Competition, making history in the USA Independent Film circuit. More information is available if you click on this IMDB link.

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Fear Of Thirteen Stage Play

2024
10.07

I worked on the sound for ‘Fear Of Thirteen’ documentary alongside Vincent Watts about 10 years ago. It won a lot of prizes at the time, then made David Parkinsons’ top 10 British documentaries of the 2010s in 2021. It has just been adapted for the London Stage. I remember Nick Yarris (the protagonist) loving the trailer and joking about who would play him if it were ever dramatised, well here’s the answer..

(Article link below)

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/oct/13/nick-yarris-adrien-brody-the-fear-of-13-donmar-death-row

Trailer embedded below

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Al Fayed: Truth Will Out

2024
09.21

16 years ago I worked on Starsuckers. It involved sting operations that helped lift the lid on phone hacking & other press malfeasance used to get private information. It helped to bring down Max Clifford- who at the time seemed untouchable- and it was used as evidence in the Leveson enquiry which lead to Rupert Murdoch’s apology and the closure of The News of The World (or ‘The News of The Screws’ as it was unofficially known). The one deep frustration was having to beep out Al Fayed’s name as Max Clifford linked him to sex crimes. We had no corroborating evidence and would have been taken to the cleaners if we tried to air it. I am relieved this is now in the public domain, but it doesn’t feel good that he wasn’t brought to justice in his lifetime. Article by Christ Atkins(Director) attached.

I have posted the trailer for the film below. It is disturbing how things have progressed in the intervening years.

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A Bit Of A Stretch: True Crime Podcast Award

2024
04.26

Very happy to hear that ‘A Bit Of A Stretch’ has won the ‘True Crime Podcast Award. Picture of Chris Atkins (Director) I Was the Sound Engineer and Vincent Watts was the Composer. It was good to get the old gang back together! More information below:

“Chris Atkins is a documentary maker who went to prison for tax fraud in 2016. He spent nine months in HMP Wandsworth, one of the most dangerous prisons in the UK, and has written about his surreal experiences in his bestselling book A Bit of a Stretch. After his release he interviewed 20 ex-prisoners about their time in jail, and turned the recordings into season 1 of this podcast. Their stories are shocking, uplifting, heartbreaking, hilarious, and often downright weird, taking you headfirst into the biggest prison crisis in history. It reveals a collapsing system that is failing victims and wider society, and reveals how the human spirit can thrive in the darkest corners. Each episode is centred around a different theme, like Arrival, Family and Change, and was a huge hit on its release and the winner of the Criminal Justice Alliance media award in 2021.”

Hear the series here

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Scary Girl nominated for ‘Best Sound In Film’ AACTA awards

2024
02.09

I enjoyed creating the foley for this film as I got to experiment and find lots of creative solutions- I had to cover a giant walking octopus, a sentient tree, humanoid rabbits, assorted robots and all sorts of weird and wacky props and events varying from spaceship crashes to dream sequences. The clip below gives a sense of one of the worlds that the characters inhabit . The award nomination was the icing on the cake.

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One Brit Wonder

2024
02.07

James Blunt’s career trajectory has been an interesting one. From a British Army tank captain to a best-selling artist to -seemingly- one of the most hated people in show business. This was followed by a career revival sparked by a willingness to verbally eviscerate himself and anyone else willing to spar with him on social media.  

I completed the dialogue edit and premixed the dialogue, music and SFX for this film (I am credited as dialogue editor and re-recording mixer).  Mixing fly-on-the-wall camera-sound with feeds from the back of a concerts mixing desk was tricky in places, but it was time well spent. I believe that the audience gets a good sense of who James and the band are behind the scenes. Listeners also gain a front row, surround sound experience of high points from many gigs.

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