EditFest Global Virtual Event - 2021
August 28th & 29thYou lucky human!!! Do you even know how lucky you are???
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Hope to see you at EditFest Global 2021!
EditFest is one of the greatest examples of ACE’s mission to educate others about the craft of editing and to advance the art and dignity of the profession. We expect our 2 day virtual event will again be a tremendous hit with editors and students alike. Thanks to our generous sponsors, EditFest is able to provide an online setting in which attendees and panelists can interact and network, exemplifying ACE’s mission to celebrate editors and the art of editing while encouraging the next generation.
Kevin Tent, ACE
President, American Cinema Editors

Saturday, August 28th, 2021
“Editing For Musicals”
9:15am to 9:30am – EditFest Intro video / instructions / sponsor reel (approximately 15 minutes)
9:30am – 11:00am
Moderated by Carolyn Giardina
Tech Editor at The Hollywood Reporter
Panelists:
- Ali Greer – Schmigadoon!
- Kris Fitzgerald – Central Park
- Virginia Katz, ACE – Dreamgirls, Beauty and the Beast
- Alan Heim, ACE – All That Jazz
- Myron Kerstein, ACE – In the Heights, Crazy Rich Asians, tick, tick…Boom

11:15am to 1:00pm
Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O’Steen
Author of The Invisible Cut & Cut to the Chase
“A Conversation with Tom Cross, ACE”
Whiplash, La La Land, First Man, No Time to Die
1:15 pm
Saturday Networking Break-Out Rooms
- Julio C. Perez IV, ACE – Euphoria, Malcolm & Marie
- Dana E. Glauberman, ACE – The Mandalorian, Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Yana Gorskaya, ACE – What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Molly Shock, ACE – Top Chef All Stars, Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars
- Frédéric Thoraval, ACE – Promising Young Woman
- Rosanne Tan, ACE – The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Mr. Robot, Homecoming
- Jessica Hernández, ACE – A Black Lady Sketch Show, Self-Made
- Avril Beukes, ACE – Respect, Queen Sugar
- Erika Dapkewicz, ACE – Vivo, Puss in Boots
Assistants and Interviewers currently include Glenn Garland, Susana Benaim, Robbie Gibbon, Christina Velez, and Matthew Allen.
2:00 pm – Sign off for the day

Sunday, August 29th
9:15am to 9:30am – EditFest Intro
9:30am – 11am
“From Assistant to Editor: Mentoring the Next Generation”
Moderated by Matt Feury
Senior Director, Artist Relations AVID
Panelists:
Part 1 – The Mentors
- Ben Bulatao, ACE – Deadliest Catch, Florida Man
- Melissa McCoy, ACE – Ted Lasso, Whiskey Cavalier
- Joi McMillon, ACE – Underground Railroad, Moonlight
- Alan Baumgarten, ACE – Trial of the Chicago 7, Molly’s Game
- Harry Yoon, ACE – Minari, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Part 2 – The Assistants
- Francesca Castro
- Irene Chun
- Christina Mar
- Daniel Morfesis
- Art O’Leary, ACE


11:15am to 1:00 pm
“International Partner Program Launch”
Strengthening the Art of Editing in the Global Film Community
Moderated by Jazz Tangcay, Senior Artisans Editor at Variety
Panelists:
- Alexander Berner, ACE – Babylon Berlin, Cloud Atlas, Resident Evil
- Janus Billeskov Jansen – Flee, Another Round, Pelle The Conqueror
- Yang Jinmo, ACE – Parasite, Snowpiercer, Train to Busan
- Soledad Salfate – A Fantastic Woman, Somos., Gloria Bell
- Michelle Tesoro, ACE – The Queen’s Gambit, Flag Day, When They See Us
1:15 pm
Sunday Networking Break-Out Rooms
- Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, ACE – Sound of Metal – 2021 Oscar Winner
- Charles Little II, ACE – 9-1-1: Lone Star
- Stephen Rivkin, ACE – Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean
- Lillian Benson, ACE – Chicago Med, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise
- Josie Azzam and Susan E Kim – Discussion with Sally Menke 2020/21 Fellows
- Pat Barnett, ACE – iCarly, Everybody Loves Raymond, Call Your Mother
- Sue Federman, ACE – How I Met Your Mother, Man with a Plan
- Daysha Broadway, ACE – A Black Lady Sketch Show, Insecure
- Andrew Weisblum, ACE – The French Dispatch, Black Swan, tick, tick…Boom!
- Kirk Baxter, ACE – The Social Network, Mank
Assistants and Interviewers will include Alfonso Carrion, Hailey Ruffner, Kelly Soll, Shannon Weiss and Alyssa Donovan.
2:00 pm – Sign off
