Flee Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s well-received animated documentary Flee tells the powerful and complex life story of Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), who escaped from Afghanistan as a child refugee. After the Russian-backed communist regime fell to the...
Summer of Soul Editor Joshua L. Pearson had been working exclusively with New York-based RadicalMedia for many years when executive producers at the facility brought him into Summer of Soul, (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a wholly unique...
Belfast Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a loosely autobiographical love letter to his hometown in Northern Ireland, steeped in his memories of growing up on a small street in a working-class Belfast neighborhood in the late 1960s where Catholics and Protestants lived...
Paper Cuts- “Order In Chaos” Many books have been written about editing and many of them have been written by editors. Maybe this is because editing is the essence of filmmaking and paradoxically also the least-understood creative force in motion...
ACE Holiday Party 2021 The ACE Holiday Party returned to the Skirball Cultural Center on Dec. 11, following a 2020 virtual event. As ACE’s first in-person event since the shutdown, the vaccination-only (or negative COVID test) event attracted roughly 450 members...
Meet Sarah Broshar When Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story debuted in December, his longtime editor Michael Kahn, ACE,was once again joined by Sarah Broshar, who grew up in a small town in Michigan where her experience of movies was much like anyone else. “We had...
Career Achievement Honoree – Richard Chew, ACE A spirit of independence permeates the life and career of Richard Chew, ACE. It was never his ambition to work in Hollywood and yet he has achieved arguably the most success an editor can achieve by working...
Career Achievement Honoree – Lillian E. Benson, ACE Lillian Benson, ACE, is one of those rare breeds of editors who is able to seamlessly weave through documentaries, movies, procedurals, specials and shorts with equal aplomb. Last year marked her 30 years...
Golden Eddie Honoree – Sundance Institute For four decades, Sundance Institute has been synonymous with American independent filmmaking. While independent cinema existed before 1981 when Robert Redford founded the Institute, it’s hard to imagine indies in...
