Awards
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. […]
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Departments
Beginnings and Endings
It’s well known, and often cited, that of all the filmmaking crafts, editing is the only one that did not exist before the advent of moving pictures. In fact, editing was actually created in the process of making those early films — first within the movie camera (or kinetograph or cinématographe) and then after the film was developed and printed, in the phase that became known as post-production. […]
Departments
Personal Effects: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Interaction
One of the social media companies competing for my ever-diminishing supply of attention sends me almost daily e-mails imploring me to log onto its site so that I can build an online simulacrum of my professional network. Those e-mails egg me on with a declarative catchphrase: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” […]
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. […]
Columns
A ‘Stagecoach’ Ride to a Film Career
In 1966, there were worse places to grow up than Iowa. My hometown, Marion, was a ten-minute bus ride from Cedar Rapids with its department stores, book and record shops, and three movie houses. […]
Columns
Tommy Vicari on ‘Road to Perdition’
You might say that Tommy Vicari, CAS, is the beneficiary of good timing. A few years after director Sam Mendes and composer Thomas Newman were the toast of the film world for the Academy Award-winning American Beauty (1999), Vicari was asked to serve as scoring mixer on their follow-up film, Road to Perdition (2002). […]
Departments
A Teachable Moment – Lessons Learned from the UTLA Strike
by Rob Callahan Last June, my column in these pages invoked the cinematic trope of the cliffhanger to describe a […]
Departments
Let’s Continue the Solidarity
Last year was a challenging one for our Guild, but also one of great promise. In our struggle to get a fair deal for our members, we discovered how strongly you were behind the position of our Board of Directors (pictured here) to fight for better protection of our pension and welfare plan, as well as better and safer turnaround times and other issues. […]
Departments
A Year of Engagement and Activism
Two thousand eighteen has been a year of great awakening for our Guild — an awakening as to who and what we really are as a labor union. We stood with our principles, refusing to abandon them in order to be socially accepted. […]
Features
A Justice for All:
Michelle Tesoro Edits ‘On the Basis of Sex’
In a year that’s featured contentious debates over the #MeToo movement, ‘On the Basis of Sex,’ which opens on Christmas Day, is the most timely holiday present imaginable. […]
