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How Tyler Cook and Anthony Rosc Make Netflix’s ‘GLOW’ Shine in the Editing Room
“The writers want it to feel like real life,” one editor says of the Netflix wrestling comedy. […]
Picture Editors
Features
How I Kept Working on ‘Spider-Man’ While Getting Chemotherapy
No one really wants to talk or read about cancer, especially in the workplace, unless it affects one directly. […]
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What Our Members Do: Myra Lopez
“Growing up, I always dreamt of seeing a Latina heroine on TV or in the movies.” […]
Columns
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. […]
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ACE’s TechFest Brings Home the Latest Products
More than 350 post-production professionals turned up earlier this month for TechFest, a new educational technology event presented by the American Cinema Editors (ACE), at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. […]
Columns
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. […]
Features
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. […]
Features
La ‘Vida’ Familiar: A Latinx Homecoming
I had forgotten just how much of myself my work asks me to leave at the door until I worked on Vida. The Starz network show, which had its second season premiere on May 23, was the first network television show on which I’ve ever had the pleasure of being asked to assist. My head didn’t stop spinning from the offer until several weeks into working on the series’ debut season last year. When it finally did stop, it landed smack-dab in the middle of the significance that Vida would have not just for me, but for television itself. […]
Features
Darling Killers: ‘Veep’ Editors Roger Nygard and Matthew Barbato
For picture editors Roger Nygard, ACE, and Matthew Barbato, the current — and final — season of HBO’s Veep offers the opportunity to swim in the middle ground between comedy and drama that resonates with them both. […]
Columns
The Long Journey to Overnight Success
I don’t remember exactly how I fell in love with storytelling. Perhaps it was because I was read to as a child — a lot. Editing is a different story. I first touched an Avid in 1999 as a summer intern in the creative services department at McDonald’s (yes, that one), and was hooked. I returned to Ball State University and would spend nights in the college editing bays, cutting anything I could, powered by Cherry Coke and Hostess frosted honey buns. […]
