When the winning editor was announced for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series at the 2016 Emmy Awards ceremony, picture editor Kabir Akhtar, ACE, was stunned to hear his name. […]
“We hope that our industry will be able to celebrate other landmarks of diversity in the days ahead.” […]
First African American to be nominated for an Oscar in Film Editing for “Midnight Cowboy” […]
“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.’” […]
This weekend, I will proudly march with members of Local 700, alongside IATSE members from the vast number of crafts within the union. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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