Cut to Black: Kevin Lee, Picture and Sound Editor
Credits include “Scarface,” “Malcolm X,” and the “Sex and the City” television series […]
MPEG Diversity
Cut to Black: Mike Jones, Assistant Editor
Mike assisted on “Grown-ish” and “Ready or Not,” and just cut his first feature, “5 South” […]
Cut to Black: John Carter, Picture Editor
John Carter edited over 30 films and TV shows, and was the first African American to be inducted into American Cinema Editors. […]
Cut to Black: Glenfield Payne, Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer
“A Primetime Emmy Nominated Sound Editor knows for his work on ‘4 Little Girls’ doc, ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ and much more” […]
Out and About:
LGTBQ Committee Discusses Visibility in the Workplace
In late January, the LGBTQ Steering Committee presented a discussion at the Guild entitled “Working It Out: Being LGBTQ in Post-Production.” About 30 members participated and, even for a Diversity Committee event, the group was…well, diverse. […]
Look What THEY Did!
Guild Celebrates Women’s History Month
On March 23, 2019, the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s Women’s Steering Committee organized an evening celebration in the Guild’s Dede Allen Seminar Room honoring Women’s History Month. […]
Sisters Celebrate Their Success
— In Classic Style
On Monday, September 3, an exciting new tradition began. How fitting that it was Labor Day when the First Annual Female Picture Editor Emmy Nominees celebration kicked off at the historic Culver Hotel in Culver City, California. […]
Calling Out Anti-Mom Bias in the Workplace
On a Saturday in late June, over 40 women members gathered at the Guild’s LA headquarters for a roundtable entitled “#MomsToo.” Amy Adrion, who directed “Half the Picture” (2018), which “celebrates the groundbreaking work of female film directors and investigates the systemic discrimination” against women in Hollywood, was also in attendance. […]
Not-So-Secret Agents:
The Art of Negotiating Revealed
During the last week of June, the Editors Guild Diversity Committee’s African-American Steering Committee hosted “The Art of Negotiation,” an eye-opening panel to show how agents serve below-the-line talent as well as those above the line. […]
Editors Guild Members Invited
to Join Motion Picture Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invitations to join the organization to 928 artists and executives from 59 countries — including 37 Editors Guild members in good standing — who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures […]