Columns
New York’s United Front
The real strength of this process comes from the fact that the unions cooperate with each other, and work together to negotiate the deals collectively. […]
Unions
OP / EDIT
The Importance of a Helping Hand
A story of a personal experience I recently had with the Motion Picture Television Fund. […]
Columns
Whether It’s Bagels or Bargaining Rights, Union-Busting Attempts Continue
Conservative lawmakers may claim to support job creation for the middle class, but their legislative actions clearly show that destruction of labor unions is also one of their highest goals. […]
Columns
US & UK: Shared Language, Differing Realities
The differences in style between a UK unscripted TV show and its US genre equivalent is akin to swapping the frosty drizzle of London for the mid-winter sunshine of California. […]
Features
Minority Rapport: Guild’s New York Office Holds Open House for City’s Film Students
The Motion Picture Editors Guild’s East Coast office is developing educational opportunities for the untapped pool of talent in the city’s minority population. […]
Union Made
Schlepping My Way to the Top
I love movies and TV shows. I love watching them and I love making them. I always have, for as long as I can remember. My career as an editor would have been just about perfect if I could have slept my way to the top. Unfortunately, with my looks, I was destined for a more conventional approach. […]
Features
My Father, the Soundman: Coming Full Circle on the Fox Lot
My anticipation was always a mixture of excitement and fear — excitement that I was going to the studio where my father made movies, but fear because the actual reason for the visit was to see the dentist, which, given my age, could mean the extraction of baby teeth. The fear usually won out. […]
Features
Honor Thy Editor
As part of their ongoing effort to gain recognition and acknowledgement for picture editors, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the American Cinema Editors (ACE) launched a Petition for the Recognition of Editors in late June. […]
Features
Still Loving ‘Lucy’
From the CineMontage archives, a 2009 interview with the award-winning editor, Dann Cahn, about the beginnings of the I Love Lucy show and the ground-breaking editorial requirements for the three-camera production. […]
Features
Larry Silk: ACE 2013 Career Achievement Award Honoree
Lawrence Silk, A.C.E., links his interest in documentaries to an early social consciousness, derived in part from his parents. As a teenager, Silk’s father had guided Eugene Debs through factories near Pittsburgh and, when they moved from Detroit to New York’s Washington Heights, Silk was well aware of the plight of the German Jewish refugees from the war, who were his classmates. […]
