At any ACE meeting 20 years ago, near the front of the meeting hall was a table of well-dressed white-haired editors engaged in spirited schmooze. We younger folks referred to them endearingly as the ‘alter kockers.’ Alter kockers is a Yiddish phrase...
Matt Allen has been named this year’s Eric Zumbrunnen Fellow. The 27-year-old native of San Diego currently serves as the second assistant editor on the Netflix feature film Sweet Girl, starring Jason Momoa, working alongside editor Matt Chessé, ACE....
Cuts We Love 2nd Qtr 2020 In this sequel to his 1984 sci-fi smash The Terminator, director James Cameron (with co-writer William Wisher) reprised the main characters but gave the story an audacious twist. T2 established the iconography of...
In Memoriam Veteran post-production executive and editor Martin “Marty” Cohen passed on May 17 of natural causes after a battle with heart disease. He was 67. A beloved and respected member of the post-production community, Marty served as...
SNL At Home In its 45-year history, Saturday Night Live (SNL) has hosted, made and chronicled a deafening amount of America’s cultural fabric. Between skits and musical guests, Weekend Update and Digital Shorts, SNL has served as both a...
New Normal With social distancing and shelter-in-place orders amid COVID-19, editors have, by necessity, taken work home. In fact, Andrew Seklir, ACE, says his editorial rental company, A Frame Post, alone installed roughly 50 home systems...
Devs Science fiction limited series Devs has a bigger picture on its mind than the machinations of a spy thriller. Made for FX and premiered on Hulu, the eight-part Silicon Valley-set drama poses philosophical questions such as whether the...
Tiger King It was early September 2019. Netflix had made clear to Doug Abel, ACE, and the team of editors at Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness that they needed the series locked by the end of the month in order to be ready for air in...
Tech Corner – Another Show… Another Show…Another New …Everything If you are a picture editor easily frustrated by change, you’re in the wrong business. Over the past six months I’ve worked on a 3D movie shot on 35mm 8...
