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Editor Anne V. Coates, ACE discusses combining scenes in "Out of Sight." From "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 11th, 2016. Anne V. Coates, ACE, is a renowned British editor who has worked on over sixty films, including the classic epic "Lawrence of Arabia," for which she received an Academy Award. She has garnered four additional Academy Award nominations for "Becket," "The Elephant Man," "In the Line of Fire," and "Out of Sight." She was awarded BAFTA’s highest honor, The Academy Fellowship, as well as the Career Achievement Award from American Cinema Editors - and last year Coates was only the second editor besides Dede Allen to receive a career achievement award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. About the moderator: Bobbie O’Steen is a New York-based writer and film historian, dedicated to sharing the editor’s invisible art with students, professionals, and the movie-going public. She is an Em...

Editor Maya Mumma, ACE on building tension in "O.J.: Made in America." Recorded at "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 10, 2017. Maya Mumma, ACE, began her career in the edit room of the Academy Award nominated documentary "Restrepo." The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and received a News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing. Most recently, she was an editor on the Academy Award winning 7.5 hour documentary "O.J.: Made in America" for which she was honored with the Best Editing award from the LA Film Critics Association and the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary Feature. She has also edited the Emmy nominated films "Which Way Is the Front Line From Here: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington" (HBO) and "Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley" (HBO), the Peabody Award winning "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown" (HBO), and "A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Pe...

Cinematographer Igor Martinović on creating the look for "The Night Of." From Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography on December 6th, 2017. Igor Martinović is a New York based cinematographer of feature and documentary films as well as TV series and commercials. He photographed the Academy Award winning documentary "Man on Wire," directed by James Marsh, which also won a BAFTA for Best British Film, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. His other docs include "Keith Richards: Under the Influence" directed by Morgan Neville and "Wormwood" directed by Errol Morris. Igor was nominated for Emmy Awards for his work on the Netflix/David Fincher TV series "House of Cards" and for the documentary "What Happened, Miss Simone?" directed by Liz Garbus. For more information go to: https://SightSoundandStory.com .

Editor Lynne Willingham, ACE on trusting her gut on "Breaking Bad." From the "TV is the New Black: Television's Cinematic Revolution" panel from Sight, Sound & Story on June 14th, 2018. In 2007/2008 and 2008/2009, Lynne Willingham, ACE, won back to back Emmy and ACE Eddie awards for AMC’s critically acclaimed "Breaking Bad" Pilot episode and the "Breaking Bad" Season 2 finale, ‘ABQ”. Over her almost forty year career, she has cut numerous television series, mows, mini-series and pilots.  Some of her work includes the mini-series, "Revelations" and "Empire," as well as the series "The Guardian," "The X-Files," "True Blood," "Revenge," and "Bloodline."  She cut the Pilot for the TNT series "Claws" in 2017. In the first year of her five year stint on "The X-Files," she was nominated for an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for the legendary, black and white epi...