By Guild Staff
Cathy Repola announced Monday that she will be retiring as National Executive Director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, effective at the end of January 2025.
Repola has worked 32 years for the Editors Guild and has served in her current role since 2016.
“Working for the Guild has been an extremely rewarding career,” Repola said. “I have always had a profound commitment to the Guild and our mission and a deep affinity for our members. Now, I have reached a place in my life where I want to shift my priorities to my loved ones and friends.”
Guild President Alan Heim, ACE, said: “Cathy has been an indispensable leader for the Guild these past eight years. She has helped lead us successfully through some of the most hard-fought and intricate contract negotiations in our history, and through many challenging times, and done it all with remarkable courage and grace. Whoever succeeds her will have some very big shoes to fill.”
President Heim will be appointing a Search Committee to find a replacement for Repola. The final candidate is subject to approval by the Guild’s Board of Directors.
Motion Picture Editors Guild is the largest union representing post-production professionals in the entertainment business. Based in Los Angeles and New York, it has approximately 9,000 members, including picture editors, sound editors, mixers and other job categories. MPEG is Local 700 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
