What Our Members Do: R. Chett Hoffman, Animation Editor
“Fate kind of pushed me into it.” […]
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Harry Yoon Talks About Editing the Immigrant Experience in ‘Minari’
“So many of the scenes, especially seeing them come to life in the dailies, were these explosions of memory.” […]
Andrew Mondshein on Editing Chadwick Boseman’s Farewell in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Mondshein was a longtime collaborator of legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who, as the New York-based, Academy Award-nominated editor tells it, was persuaded that few things in cinema were as fascinating as a well-timed close-up. […]
Cameron Dennis on Editing ’69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez’ AKA Tekashi69
“It was complicated because of Tekashi69’s strained personal relationships and the fact that there were pending legal proceedings, and sentencing hadn’t played out yet.” […]
MPEG Election: Guild Reveals New Board of Directors for 2021, with Four New Members
The Board members will take office on January 1, 2021, and will be officially inducted at the Guild’s first Board meeting of the new year on Saturday, January 9. […]
Editors Guild Website Gets Revamp to Help Members Find Union Jobs
The website will be taken offline from December 11-13 to implement the changes. It will be the first major overhaul since a new generation website was introduced in the Spring of 2017. […]
How Post Helped Robert Zemeckis’ ‘The Witches’ Cast a Spell (and Survive a Pandemic)
It’s bittersweet seeing the movie released into the world, knowing that it might never see a wide release in theatres. But in the end, where you see it doesn’t matter as much as who you see it with. There’s nothing like getting lost in a movie with your loved ones and forgetting about the real world for 90 minutes, and I think “The Witches” fits the bill perfectly. […]
Ren Klyce and Jeremy Molod of ‘Mank’ Break Their Silence on the Sound Secrets of 1940s
Director David Fincher commanded his own army of Foley artists, dialog editors and sound specialists for his iconoclastic biographical portrait of the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman). […]
MPEG Elections: Record Number of Members Running for IATSE Delegate Spots
Dozens of members are running for seats to the Local 700 Board of Directors representing classifications of Picture Editor and Assistant Editor, as well as Music Editor, Sound Editor, and Eastern Region representing members in New York. […]
Tracey Wadmore-Smith and Shayar Bhansali Talk Mentorship and ‘I’m Your Woman’
by Rob Feld Tracey Wadmore-Smith and Shayar Bhansali are a testament to the power of mentorship in editing. What began […]