One lovely Saturday this summer, over 300 editors, filmmakers, and post-production professionals opted to pack the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway for a full day of panels focused on the art of editing documentary films, episodic TV and visual effects.
Cutting Commentary - From The Guild
After opening remarks by Randy Roberts, ACE, President of American Cinema Editors, the DGA Theatre in New York took on a hushed tone as the second annual East Coast EditFest got underway June 11. The reason was that the organization remembered on of it's own; Karen Schmeer, ACE. Lucia Small, both a close friend and a client of Schmeer's editing skills, stood up to talk about the young editor whose life ended earlier this year from a tragic hit-and-run accident near her home in Manhattan.
MEWShop is Jazzed about Editor Alan Heim
Thursday With Carol
On a wintry Thursday evening in late February, Carol Littleton, ACE spoke to a crowd of more than 50 filmmakers at the New York Editors Guild office. In her presentation, the then Artist-in-Residence at the Manhattan Edit Workshop--who is a former President of the Guild and currently the organization's Vice President--described techniques of creating character and thematic introductions in her films.
He'll Take Manhattan - Editor Michael Berenbaum, ACE
As the editor of Focus Features' fall release Hollywoodland, Michael Berenbaum can empathize with the plight of the film's real-life character, George Reeves and perils of being typecast. Television's first Superman, Reeves (played by Ben Affleck) slowly deteriorates throughout the film's flashbacks as his dreams of becoming a serious actor are crushed by the very public weight of his red cape.