Departments
Guild President Alan Heim Issues MPEG Statement on Diversity
“We hope that our industry will be able to celebrate other landmarks of diversity in the days ahead.” […]
Diversity
Committee News
Cut to Black: Hugh Robertson, Picture Editor
First African American to be nominated for an Oscar in Film Editing for “Midnight Cowboy” […]
Committee News
LGBTQ Guild Members See Progress, and Room for Improvement, in Industry Anti-Discrimination Efforts
“My mother had a tough time at first. She said, ‘You’ve had 22 years to figure this out, and you’ve given me five minutes. So give me some time.’” […]
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. […]
Committee News
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. […]
Committee News
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. […]
Committee News
A Celebration of Emmy Proportions!
Pan Pacific and Asian-American Committee Honors Its Own
Three-dozen enthusiastic MPEG members gathered in the Editors Guild’s Dede Allen Seminar Room in Los Angeles to celebrate the careers of five members of Pan Pacific and Asian descent who were nominated for Emmy Awards in 2018. […]
Committee News
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. […]
Committee News
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. […]
Industry
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 […]
