Articles by Mel Lambert

During his introduction, ACE president Kevin Tent made pointed reference the Academy’s decision to pre-record the award presentations for eight craft awards, including film editing and sound. Tent called the decision “hurtful, insensitive and short-sighted,” with residual effects that will require bridge-building.

One critic has likened the film to director Ramón Menéndez’s “Stand and Deliver” (1988), in which a teacher successfully inspires his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.

by Mel Lambert “The editor of an unscripted documentary is always, by the nature of the task at hand, a […]