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From our 2019 Sight, Sound & Story Post Production Summit - Editor Kate Sanford ACE, discusses how she brought out the passion of the Fosse/Verdon cast by intercutting three scenes that were not originally planned to be intercut.   Kate Sanford, ACE, is a feature film and television editor whose most recent project is the upcoming just released miniseries Fosse/Verdon. She recently completed the first two seasons of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and won the ACE award for best-edited comedy. Between seasons she edited "The Deuce" for writer/showrunner David Simon. Their long-running collaboration includes the 6-part miniseries "Show Me A Hero," the pilot for "Treme" (for which she won an ACE award for best-edited drama), and all five seasons of "The Wire" (for which she also won an ACE award for drama). Other television includes "Vinyl," executive produced by Martin Scorsese; all seasons of "Boardwalk Empire," ...

From Sight, Sound and Story: The Art of Cinematography 2015. Recorded live at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway on September 30th, 2015. Paul Koestner has been a cinematographer for over three decades since graduating from one of those film schools nobody in the business cares about. His projects have included features, television series, commercials, industrials, documentaries and webcast series. Paul is perhaps best known through his work with Louis CK, with whom he has collaborated for the last twenty-plus years. Along with the FX Series bearing Mr. CK’s name, the two have worked together on projects such as "The Chris Rock Show," "The Dana Carvey Show," and numerous short-form pieces both personal and professional. Early obscure works include the film shorts "Caesar Salad" and "Ice Cream."  "Louie" is an American comedy-drama television series on the FX network that began airing in 2010. It is written, directed, edited, and prod...

Lee Percy, ACE  has worked with director Barbet Schroeder from the Academy Award-winning film,  Reversal of Fortune  to Murder by Numbers . Lee also edited the Academy Award-winning Boys Don't Cry , and the critically acclaimed film,  Maria Full of Grace .  He also worked on The Ice Harvest  for director Harold Ramis, Oliver Stone's Snowden , as well as Sundance Film Festival 2009 nominee and Emmy-winning Taking Chance.  Lee's recent work includes the remake of the classic horror film Carrie , Amelia , HBO's Grey Gardens , and Oliver Stone's Snowden. Our next workshop starts March 2nd! Learn more about our Six Week Intensive Workshop here .

Sight, Sound & Story  - Bill Pankow, ACE and Jerry Greenberg, ACE on Kramer vs. Kramer (Part 2) with moderator and author Bobbie O'Steen. Editors Jerry Greenberg, ACE and Bill Pankow, ACE, talk about the best feeling that an editor can have, using a scene from "Kramer vs. Kramer." From the panel "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen," at "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 8th, 2013. For more information go to: www.SightSoundandStory.com. Gerald B. Greenberg, ACE often credited as Jerry Greenberg, is an American film editor who received both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film "The French Connection" (1971). He received Oscar and BAFTA nominations for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979) and "Apocalypse Now" (1979). Bill Pankow, ACE is an American film editor with more than 32 film credits dating from 1982. He won the Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Editing ...

An introduction to the Panasonic Cinema Camera Line focusing on the compact & lightweight 5.7K EVA1. Join Panasonic for a free Tech Talk at Manhattan Edit Workshop! We will have multiple EVA1 kits for attendees to get hands-on time exploring along with the Panasonic VariCam and the all-in-one CX350 camcorder. Panasonic experts will present and be available to answer questions on the cameras, and guest Cinematographer Jodi Savitz will discuss how they use the Panasonic cameras in their work. Where: Manhattan Edit Workshop 119 W 23rd Street, Suite 700 When: February 19, 2020 Time: 6:00PM Cost: FREE!  Refreshments will be provided. About Jodi Savitz: Jodi Savitz is a cinematographer and director based in New York City. Savitz specializes in capturing intersectional stories with political, religious, and LGBTQ themes, and shoots a diverse range of projects including documentary, narrative, music video, and commercial projects. Savi...

From the  Filmmaker U  blog on February 4, 2020.   Filmmaker U was created to help fill the apprenticeship void in the modern day film & television industry. This online education series will bring the best in the business from behind the camera, to any aspiring media artist who can no longer obtain this type of apprenticeship. Please check out all of our online classes now open for registration on editing, sound design, and color grading at Filmmaker U  here .   Jinmo Yang has been editing for ten years, and in that time he's established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the world of film editing. He's become South Korea's premiere editor, working on some of the most internationally successful films coming out of that industry. Yang's work includes the phenomenal Train to Busan , Okja , and of course Bong Joon Ho's Parasite , for which he is nominated for the Editing Oscar. His style has become such that he's mastered rhythm, and ...