Industry
Cutting Commentary: Talking Shop at EditFest LA
Introducing the program, ACE President Stephen Rivkin welcomed the audience and announced that for the first time, EditFest LA was being streamed online. […]
Month: August 2017
Guild
Karen Greene Resigns as Guild Field Representative
The Motion Picture Editors Guild regrets to announce the resignation of Field Representative Karen Greene, effective August 18, 2017. […]
Committee News
Countering the Celluloid Ceiling:
The Perils of Post-Production
Among the 250 top-grossing films of 2016, 79 percent had no female picture editors and 93 percent had no female supervising sound editors. […]
Features
‘Transparent’ Editing: Peering into the Post Process of the Hit Amazon Series
The acclaimed web series “Transparent,” created by producer/writer/director Jill Soloway (“Six Feet Under,” 2001-05, and “United States of Tara,” 2009-11), has made waves on television and in the LGBTQ community. […]
Features
Sound Supervising ‘Battle of the Sexes’
In 1973, the tennis court became an unlikely showcase for the heated battle of feminists and their foes. Bobby Riggs, a top tennis player in the 1940s and showman extraordinaire, challenged top female tennis players to try to beat him on the court. […]
Features
The Del Spiva Experience:
Music editor Del Spiva chuckles when asked how he explains the job of a music editor to the uninitiated. For Spiva, explaining the job can be a Socratic experience; he throws challenges at his questioners until they comprehend the nature of his work. […]
Book Reviews
Planet Waves – Walter Murch and the Sounds of the Solar System
The title of Lawrence Weschler’s book, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists,” is complex and slightly mysterious, fitting for an exploration into the mind of legendary picture editor, sound designer, sound editor, re-recording mixer, writer and director Walter Murch, ACE, CAS, MPSE. […]
Columns
Rick Alexander on ‘Ronin’
In 1998, when re-recording mixers Rick Alexander and Richard D. Rogers first met with director John Frankenheimer about working on “Ronin,” there were many subjects that could have been discussed. […]
MPEG Diversity
Diversity Committee Forms New Steering Committees
The Editors Guild’s Diversity Committee was created last year because of a need to bring awareness for inclusion in our workplace. We were glad that so many of our members showed interest in participating. […]
Guild
Amarillas Joins Guild as Field Representative
Olie Amarillas has joined the Editors Guild as a Field Representative in the Los Angeles office. With over a decade of experience in post-production distribution, he has witnessed its biggest transformations, from bulky, heavy 35mm film cans to weightless hard drives. […]