Features
Larry Jordan and the Many Joys of Editing Marlon Wayans’ ‘Sextuplets’
“This was a huge volume of footage, making it one of the most challenging projects of my career,” says Jordan. […]
Picture Editors
Web Exclusives
Fred Raskin Talks About Editing Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
“During production, Quentin does not enter the editing room. He doesn’t want to look at any edited footage because he just wants to focus on shooting the movie.” […]
Committee News
LGBTQ Guild Members See Progress, and Room for Improvement, in Industry Anti-Discrimination Efforts
“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.’” […]
Web Exclusives
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. […]
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. […]
What Our Members Do
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. […]
Web Exclusives
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. […]
