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.
