Features
Status of Women in Post-Production
How has societal change affected women in post production? […]
Picture Editors
Departments
The Cutting Room Challenge
Given the veritable obstacle course of a workflow that the 22-strong picture editorial crew on American Ninja Warrior endures to get the hit sports/reality show to air each week, perhaps the next concept in competition-oriented reality TV programming should be about just that. […]
Features
Editors Have the Write Stuff: Guild Members Transition into Authors
Editors Guild members sometimes need to exercise their storytelling talents and share their insights on their craft in the print medium in addition to the audio- visual. This year to date, four books have been published by members of the Guild about their work. […]
Departments
Golden Age? Show Me the Coinage
My few forays into non-feature editing were no less challenging. But they paid less money. […]
Industry
‘Sicario’ and ‘The Big Short’ Score Feature Wins at HPA Awards
On a chilly Thursday evening in mid-November, the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA, formerly the Hollywood Post Alliance) celebrated the presentation of its 11th Annual HPA Awards at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. […]
Features
The Ultra Challenge of Digitally Editing An Ultra Wide Film
Among the challenges of creating The Hateful Eight in “glorious 70mm,” as filmmaker Quentin Tarantino described it in his original screenplay, was the fact that it required an overall post workflow that was highly irregular in many respects — both a throwback to an earlier era and extremely complex at the same time. […]
Features
Terry Rawlings: The ‘Phantom’ Hand Behind Great Movies
Rawlings discussed his career in a telephone conversation with CineMontage. […]
Features
What’d I Say: Paul Hirsch Riffs on ‘Ray’ with Norman Hollyn
On November 18, Paul Hirsch and I sat down for an interview. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: A Career Plan? Who, Me?
Some people have a plan. I did not, do not, and am still not sure what I would like to be when I grow up. Oh, I am mostly grown, middle-aged, halfway to somewhere. Opportunities and luck drew me. […]
Union Made
Striking Just the Right Balance
A ”Jack-of-all-trades and master of none” is what I thought of myself until I turned 30. […]
