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Editors Jesse Averna, Sidney Wolinsky, ACE and Michael Berenbaum, ACE on the importance of Adobe After Effects. From Manhattan Edit Workshop's Sight, Sound & Story event, June 13, 2015. For more information visit www.mewshop.com and www.sighsoundandstory.com. About Jesse Averna (@Dr0id): For the last six seasons, the series editor for "Sesame Street," for which he has won five Emmys. Jesse also teaches Continuing Ed at the School of Visual Arts, recently directed a new children’s series "Monica’s Mixing Bowl" and is in active development on his own film. He also leads a weekly Twitter chat every Wednesday night for Post Professionals, called #PostChat. When Jesse’s not engaged in the above, or spending time with his family, he’s editing recap promo’s for SyFy’s "12 Monkeys.' Basically, he’s a workaholic insomniac with a love for his daughter, Post Production, monsters and droids. About Michael Berenbaum, ACE: Michael served as editor on both...

From Manhattan Edit Workshop's "Critical Ends" series, featuring award winning editors discussing their craft as a part of our Six Week Editing Intensive. Subscribe to MEWShop's YouTube page for more educational content like this!   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFTpOOSGrCfKShrx15YojdQ #MEWTube, #CriticalEnds, #ArtistinResidence, #MichaelBerenbaum, #SexintheCity, @MEWShop

Editor Jeffrey Wolf, ACE on "Holes." From Manhattan Edit Workshop's "Critical Ends" series, featuring award winning editors discussing their craft as a part of our Six Week Editing Intensive. For more information on Manhattan Edit Workshop's Six Week Editing Intensive and Artist In Residence program please visit: mewshop.com/six_week_workshop/ #MEWTube, #JeffWolf, #ArtistinResidence, #CriticalEnds, #6Week,  +Manhattan Edit Workshop

Editor William Goldenberg, ACE discusses restructing scenes in "The Imitation Game." From the panel "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen," at "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 13th, 2015. William Goldenberg, ACE, has more than twenty film and television credits since 1992. He won the Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Argo, and has been nominated for "The Insider," "Seabiscuit," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "The Imitation Game." He has also received nominations for nine other editing-related awards. Goldenberg has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Michael Mann including "Heat," "The Insider," "Ali," and "Miami Vice." Some of his other work includes "Unbroken," "Alive," "Pleasantville," "National Treasure," and "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon...

Cinematographer Matt Porwoll is based in New York City. His most recent work,  Cartel Land , was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary (feature). Cartel Land was also selected for competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently went on to win the US Documentary Prize for Cinematography. He was one of three speakers on the documentary panel at MEWShop's " Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography," 2015  event. We recently caught up with him to ask some in-depth questions about his career and experiences as a cinematographer. Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWShop): Where did you grow up and why did you want to be a cinematographer? Matt Porwoll (MP):  I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve known that I wanted to be a cinematographer since my freshman year of high school. It’s interesting to try and trace the reason why, but I think a big part of why I took this path was that my dad liked taking pictures. As a kid I loved goi...