Awards
Martin Cohen, Former Studio Post-Production Chief, Will Receive Fellowship Award
Onetime head of post-production at Amblin and Paramount will be honored at October 5 gala.
Month: June 2019
Web Exclusives
Why the World Pride Parade and LGBTQ Awareness Matter to the Guild
This weekend, I will proudly march with members of Local 700, alongside IATSE members from the vast number of crafts within the union.
Web Exclusives
ACE’s TechFest Brings Home the Latest Products
More than 350 post-production professionals turned up earlier this month for TechFest, a new educational technology event presented by the American Cinema Editors (ACE), at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.
Uncategorized
Roger Barton and Evercast Look for a Better Way to Edit
Faced with a demanding career and a time-crunched personal life, a veteran film editor is behind a new system designed to help colleagues find the right balance.
Guild
Solidarity on the Shore:
A Report from the IATSE District 2 Convention
Hundreds of union members gathered for the 75th convention of District 2 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at the Sheraton Waikiki in Honolulu on June 8 with a resounding group chant of “Alo-ha!”
Features
What Price Innocence?
‘When They See Us’ Recounts the Journey of Five Wrongfully Convicted Teens
In 1989, five teenagers of color were arrested and accused of the rape and brutal beating of a white woman who had been jogging in Central Park. Although the DNA on the rape kit didn’t match any of the young men, they were first coerced to “confess” and convicted by juries in two separate trials in 1990. Dubbed the Central Park Five, the boys became men during their six to 13 years in prison before a convicted serial rapist confessed to the attacks in 2002.
Features
When They Hear Us: Creating the Period-Specific Soundtrack for a Tragedy of Justice
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, which dropped May 31, was originally called Central Park 5. That working title identifies the overarching plot trajectory: The notorious case of five teenagers of color who were wrongly convicted of raping a white female jogger in New York, and which resulted in the use of the term “wilding” to describe out-of-control gang activity. The revised title better reflects the fate of the young people unjustly ensnared in the criminal justice system by embracing their humanity and not their politicized role.
Columns
Pimp My Bay: Scott Wesley Ross
Pimp My Bay: Assistant Editor Scott Wesley Ross’ Editing Suite at Hula Post, Burbank, CA
Features
La ‘Vida’ Familiar: A Latinx Homecoming
I had forgotten just how much of myself my work asks me to leave at the door until I worked on Vida. The Starz network show, which had its second season premiere on May 23, was the first network television show on which I’ve ever had the pleasure of being asked to assist. My head didn’t stop spinning from the offer until several weeks into working on the series’ debut season last year. When it finally did stop, it landed smack-dab in the middle of the significance that Vida would have not just for me, but for television itself.
Book Reviews
Who Were the True Auteurs in Post-Production? Ask the Monitor Man
George Larkin offers a startling premise in the book Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking: From the Silent Era to Synchronized Sound, one that may delight some readers while offending others. He states the fact that post-production work is critical to all filmmaking but takes that fact further, stressing that post is the major driver of film creation, eclipsing all else.
