Guild
Election Results for 2020 Board Seats Bring Four New Members, and Sharon Smith Holley as Secretary
As Secretary, Diane Adler will be replaced by Sharon Smith Holley […]
Guild History
Features
How Story Analysts from Hollywood’s Golden Age Helped Build Movies, and a Lasting Labor Movement
Story analysts organized and fought battles from which today’s union story analysts, as well as members of all Hollywood IA locals, still reap benefits. […]
Web Exclusives
Time’s Up Takes on Latest Frontier in Battle Against Sexual Harassment and Inequality: Post-Production
“It puts the company on notice. They can’t deny that it occurred.” […]
Guild
MPEG 2019 BOARD ELECTION RESULTS
Congratulations to the newly elected or re-elected members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s 2019 Board of Directors. The new members will take office on January 1, 2019. […]
Awards
Lee’s Legion of Fans: Some Words from His Admirers…
Lee Dichter is my friend, my mentor, my fellow nerd. What can I say here that isn’t known and spoken out loud by all of us. As I reflect on my start in this business and remember Lee showing the way, I think about his generosity in sharing his knowledge and experience. […]
Features
30 Years on Sunset
Over the summer and fall of 1988, the Motion Picture Editors Guild in Hollywood, then IATSE Local 776, made two very auspicious hires to its staff. On July 25, Adriana Iglesias (now Iglesias-Dietl) became assistant bookkeeper and, on October 17, Lisa Berniker (now Dosch) was named administrative assistant. […]
Departments
Last Fair Deal Gone Down?
Our nation and our union are currently roiling in the pro-or-con debate of upcoming elections. For the country, it’s the biennial mid-term elections of our congressional representatives and senators as well as state officials in early November, which looks to be more divisive than ever. […]
Features
Let There Be Sound: The Origins of Post-Production Audio on the West Coast
To relate the history of film post- production sound during the past 75 years is to tell the story of the creative post facilities that made such developments possible through a combination of tenacity and technical developments. […]
Book Reviews
Early on, a Woman’s Place Was in the Cutting Room
“Great film editing begins with great pictures,” said Barbara “Bobbie” McLean in a 1977 interview in Film Comment magazine. She could make such a gracious statement with authority at that point, after cutting for more than 60 years, beginning as […]
Features
Give Them Some Credit!: How Post-Production Practitioners Received On-Screen Acknowledgment
In his study of silent films, The Parade’s Gone By…, author Kevin Brownlow described editing as “the hidden power.” “Editors are passed over by film historians because their work, when successful, is virtually unnoticeable,” Brownlow wrote. […]
