What Our Members Do: Myra Lopez
“Growing up, I always dreamt of seeing a Latina heroine on TV or in the movies.” […]
Film
Anne Goursaud on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
“My first thought was, ‘Oh God, this is perfect material for Francis — he’s going to do a fantastic job with this,” remembers editor Anne Goursaud, ACE, regarding Bram Stoker’s 1897 horror novel Dracula. […]
Martin Cohen, Former Studio Post-Production Chief, Will Receive Fellowship Award
Onetime head of post-production at Amblin and Paramount will be honored at October 5 gala. […]
Roger Barton and Evercast Look for a Better Way to Edit
Faced with a demanding career and a time-crunched personal life, a veteran film editor is behind a new system designed to help colleagues find the right balance. […]
What Price Innocence?
‘When They See Us’ Recounts the Journey of Five Wrongfully Convicted Teens
In 1989, five teenagers of color were arrested and accused of the rape and brutal beating of a white woman who had been jogging in Central Park. Although the DNA on the rape kit didn’t match any of the young men, they were first coerced to “confess” and convicted by juries in two separate trials in 1990. Dubbed the Central Park Five, the boys became men during their six to 13 years in prison before a convicted serial rapist confessed to the attacks in 2002. […]
When They Hear Us: Creating the Period-Specific Soundtrack for a Tragedy of Justice
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, which dropped May 31, was originally called Central Park 5. That working title identifies the overarching plot trajectory: The notorious case of five teenagers of color who were wrongly convicted of raping a white female jogger in New York, and which resulted in the use of the term “wilding” to describe out-of-control gang activity. The revised title better reflects the fate of the young people unjustly ensnared in the criminal justice system by embracing their humanity and not their politicized role. […]
When Editing Began: The Cut that Launched a Filmmaking Craft
By the time film pioneer Georges Méliès made this only slightly exaggerated claim, the making and exhibition of narrative film was establishing itself as a business separate from the variety stage and lecture circuit. As more people visited storefront theatres to see moving picture stories, they watched the art and craft of editing evolving on screens right before their eyes. […]
The Talented Mr. Ridley:
First Bio on Filmmaker Scott
Sir Ridley Scott’s extraordinary career in television and motion pictures is long overdue for a thorough historical and critical examination. Today, with books on almost every imaginable cinematic subject popping up regularly, the lack of definitive writing on Scott seems an odd omission. […]
What Our Members Do: Amanda Nelligan
“I read scripts submitted for consideration, providing a synopsis and my analysis of whether they are a good bet for the studio — the pros and cons of premise, character, storyline, dialogue, etc.” […]
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. […]