Press Release

American Cinema Editors and Manhattan Edit Workshop bring editors, filmmakers and moviegoers alike the biggest blockbuster event of the summer; the only thing small about this year’s EditFest NY is the price tag.

The American Cinema Editor’s (ACE) EditFest NY, the east coast version of ACE’s popular EditFest series originally launched in 2008 as ACE EditFest LA, is gearing up for its return to New York City as the blockbuster editing event of the summer.

Set to kick off on Friday, June 10 at the Director’s Guild of America Theater in New York City, ACE EditFest NY, co-produced by Manhattan Edit Workshop (Mewshop), presents the editing and filmmaking community with two action-packed days of discussion, discovery and behind-the-scenes excitement, straight from the cutting room floor, with the industry’s most talented and well-respected editors of both feature films and television.

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This article was written for Escapology.

“At the end of the day it’s all about editing, isn’t it.

I’m editing some spots at the moment. I have to say, in all immodesty, that I have always been pretty good at editing. Because editing is true storytelling. The best part of filmmaking! and I love that bit.

There’s a old movie expression: in film you write something three times. you write when you write it. you write it when you shoot it. and you write it when you edit it.”

This article was wrtten by Alan Edit.

“Starting a career in post? already in post? good. Here are 5 things I learned, practically. I’m still learning.”

Read this article from Looking For the Right Image.

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This arrticle and video is from HD Film Tools.

“Today we present Part I of a multi-part series with award winning film editor Chris Dickens. Chris is the recipient of this years “triple crown” of editing awards for his work on “Slumdog Millionaire”, for which he took home the American Cinema Editor’s (A.C.E.) EDDY Award, the British Academy of Film an Television Arts (BAFTA) award and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Award.” Read rest of article and watch video.

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According to Walter Murch, (an Academy Award–winning film editor/sound mixer) when it comes to film editing, there are six main criteria for evaluating a cut or deciding where to cut.

Here they are in order of importance:

1. Emotion – Does the cut reflect what the editor believes the audience should be feeling at that moment?

2. Story – Does the cut advance the story?

3. Rhythm – Does the cut occur at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and ‘right’?

4. Eye-Trace – Does the cut pay respect to “the location and movement of the audience’s focus of interest within the frame?

5. Two-Dimensional Place of the Screen – Does the cut respect the 180 degree rule?

6. Three-Dimensional Space of Action – Is the cut true to the physical/spatial relationships within the narrative?

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Of the many elements that go into making a movie, a director must have a knowledge and understanding of editing (montage) because editing is the main element that separates films from photography. Sergei Eisenstein (the Russian Director) influenced many early filmmakers with his innovative use of film montage. To see for yourself the impact he had on future filmmakers, watch the famous Odessa Steps montage scene from his 1925 silent film, “Battleship Potemkin” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5mtaQm5lSI