Features

Prime Cut: The Work of the Film Editor

To help us celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, our colleagues at the prestigious film journal Film Comment in New York have allowed us to reprint copy from their special 24-page section celebrating film editors […]

Features

The Doc Workers of New York: Pushing for Union Jobs Editing Non-Fiction

The documentary form has been around since the beginning of cinema, and over the past 15 years, pundits have bruited this past decade and a half as “The Golden Age of Documentaries.” No matter the platform — theatrical, television or online — documentary has transformed itself from the margins to the mainstream as a galvanizing and provocative art form. […]

Union Made

Cinema Paradiso in San Diego

You’d think my path to joining the Editors Guild would be a predictable journey: attend film school, pursue an internship in post-production, get in the union, win awards. But I didn’t go that route. […]

Book Reviews

The Zen of the Dance

Every few years, a motion picture editor should read this book to clear the field of view and refresh the vision about what the craft is all about. […]