The Editor's Cut

In this episode Sarah Taylor sits down with Kim French the creator of Edit Girls. Edit Girls is a collection of career stories from women working in Post-Production. It began life as an Instagram page , which was founded by Kim French, and kept going with the support of Mathew White and now has a home on it's webpage www.editgirls.org Edit Girls was born out of frustration at a lack of seeing thes...

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on September 29th, 2020. Canadian Cinema Editors and American Cinema Editors presented a discussion with animation editor John Venzon, ACE. John Venzon, ACE is a feature film editor who works primarily in Animated Feature films. He was the lead editor on "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut", DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Pictures' "Flush...

Today's episode is an interview with the recipient of the CCE Career Achievement Award for 2021 — Jane Tattersall. This award is presented to a non-editor who has shown great support for Canadian editors and the editorial profession over the course of their career. Jane has been a fixture in the Canadian post-production industry for over 30 years. Her enormous support for Canadian filmmakers, from...

Today's episode is an interview with the recipient of the CCE Career Achievement Award for 2021 — Jane Tattersall. This award is presented to a non-editor who has shown great support for Canadian editors and the editorial profession over the course of their career. Jane has been a fixture in the Canadian post-production industry for over 30 years. Her enormous support for Canadian filmmakers, from...

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 27th, 2020. In Conversation with Madison Thomas. Named one of Playback's 2019 Five to Watch, Madison Thomas is a Writer, Director and Editor from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work reflects her mixed cultural roots, Ojibwe, Saulteax, Russian and Ukrainian. Thomas draws inspiration from experiences growing up in the inner city and has...

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 25th, 2020. In Conversation with Nena Erb, ACE. We discussed her television career which started as a PA in the art department of MADtv and has progressed to being an Emmy winning editor on HBO's documentary series Project Greenlight and Insecure. She has also worked on Crazy Ex Girlfriend and the Apple series Little America. We...

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 25th, 2020. In Conversation with Nena Erb, ACE. We discussed her television career which started as a PA in the art department of MADtv and has progressed to being an Emmy winning editor on HBO's documentary series Project Greenlight and Insecure. She has also worked on Crazy Ex Girlfriend and the Apple series Little America. We...

The CCE is proud to launch the official channel of our French podcast: L'art du montage.  Francophone and Francophile friends, you will finally be able to listen or re-listen to your favourite episodes of our podcast in one place. We hope you're as excited as we are. So, more than ever, don't hesitate to like, subscribe, share and even tell your friends about our new channel.  L'art du montage is...

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 18th, 2020: In Conversation with Sonia Godding-Togobo. Sonia is a film and television editor to know. Her rise in the industry is nothing short of prolific. After 20 years, she has acquired an assortment of credits including editing television programs for the Oprah Winfrey Network, Channel 4, The Discovery Channel, HGTV and the...

It's been one year since our worlds have changed and we thought it was a good time to check in on our mental health. Sarah Taylor sits down with psychotherapist Rebecca Day to talk about our mental health as creatives in the midst of a pandemic. Rebecca Day is a qualified psychotherapist and freelance documentary producer. She founded her company, Film In Mind in 2018 to address mental health in t...

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 4th, 2020. In Conversation with Tom Cross, ACE. Tom and Sarah Taylor discuss his career journey from video store clerk to assistant editor to Oscar awarding winning editor. As well as his collaboration with director Damien Chazelle on the films Whiplash, La La Land and First Man. They also talked about the anticipated release of...

This episode is the online master series that took place on July 21st, 2020. The CCE partnered with BiPOC TV and film to bring you In Conversation with Jeremy Harty, CCE and Cory Bowles about the movie Black Cop. On its release in 2017, Black Cop garnered critical acclaim as an unapologetic challenge of race and police. With a range of visuals from body cam to camera phones - dash cam to tradition...

This episode is the online master series that took place on May 24th, 2020 - In Conversation with Mary Stephen, CCE. Born in Hong Kong and based in Paris, Mary Stephen has been working in narrative film and documentary for more than 30 years as an editor. Her work has been screened internationally at Venice, Cannes, and Tribeca film festivals. Known for her decades-long collaboration with French f...

This episode is the online master series that took place on May 13th, 2020. Edit Chat's with Ken Filewych. CCE. Ken's diverse career has included editing Joni Mitchell's ballet The Fiddle and the Drum, Tricia Helfer's Walk All Over Me and the legendary band the smalls reunion tour documentary Forever Is A Long Time. He has also cut over 100 episodes of Heartland - the longest running one hour dram...

Dans ce nouvel épisode, Justin Lachance, CCE s'entretient avec Benjamin Duffield. Ils passent en revue les derniers projets de Benjamin : la série télé populaire C'EST COMME ÇA QUE JE T'AIME, le documentaire RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD, ainsi qu'un film documentaire de longue haleine où il tient à la fois le rôle de réalisateur et de monteur, et sur lequel il a travaillé pendant près...

Liza Cardinale, ACE is a television editor based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work spans many genres from comedy to fantasy and often features stories with complex female characters. Some of her credits include Outlander, Dead To Me which earned her an Eddie nomination, and the upcoming dramedy On The Verge. We chat about Liza's editing journey from New York to LA and what life is like during the pande...

Today's episode is the online Master Series that took place on May 19th, 2020. Edit Chats with Kimberlee McTaggart, CCE and Thorben Bieger, CCE. Thorben is a CSA nominated editor who has edited several series and a number of features including The Child Remains, Heartbeat and All the Wrong reasons. Kimberlee is a Gemini award winning editor of TV series, docs, and feature films such as Blackbird a...

In today's episode Sarah Taylor chats with Ryan Kovak, an editor based in Toronto who at this point in his career has assisted or edited 20 holiday movies! They discuss his latest holiday movie The Christmas Setup which is Lifetime's first-ever LGBTQ+ Christmas movie.

This episode was our first online Master Series event that took place on April 21, 2020. It's a panel discussion and Q & A with the editors of Netflix's hit series Altered Carbon. Geoff Ashenhurst, CCE, Erin Deck CCE, Stephen PhilipsonCCE, and Jay Prychidny CCE discuss the creative and technical challenges of putting together the second season of one of the biggest VFX-based series Netflix has eve...

This episode is the zoom event that took place on May 5th, 2020. Richard is a motion picture editor whose love of comedy sparked a career that includes credits on "Loudermilk", "Dead Like Me", "The Drew Carey Show", "The Simpsons" and "Pee-Wee's Playhouse". Over the years he's had the good fortune of collaborating with such comedy icons as David Steinberg, Nora Ephron, Jason Alexander, Penny Marsh...

This episode is part 4 of a 4 part series covering EditCon 2020 that took place on Saturday February 1st, 2020 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Multi-award-winning editor Susan Shipton shares her vast knowledge and experience from a long career in film and network television. Susan has over 40 feature films to her credit. She has cut eight films with director Atom Egoyan (including Oscar-nomi...

This episode dives into the heart of the impressive career of the distinguished editor, Michel Arcand, CCE. His career is intimately linked to the history of Quebec cinema. He worked on renowned Canadian productions, as well as international productions, including one of the famous James Bond episodes: " Tomorrow Never Dies ". Cet épisode plonge au coeur de l'impressionnante carrière du monteur ém...

This episode is part 3 or a 4 part series covering EditCon 2020 that took place on Saturday February 1st, 2020 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. This panel explores the mechanics of making us laugh--how do you take what's on the page and make it land? From sketch comedy to sitcoms, James Bredin, CCE from Schitt's Creek , Marianna Khoury from  Letterkenny  and  Baroness Von Sketch Show  and Jon...

This episode is part 2 or a 4 part series covering EditCon 2020 that took place on Saturday February 1st, 2020 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. There's no formula to a festival hit, but the three editors behind the recent critically-lauded feature films  Freaks ,  Mouthpiece , and  Genesis will share how they did it. In this panel discussion Mathieu Bouchard-Malo, Lara Johnston and Sabrina Pi...

This episode is part 1 or a 4 part series covering EditCon 2020 that took place on Saturday February 1st, 2020 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Massive hours of footage, tight deadlines, and no script? No problem! Elianna Borsa, Jenypher Fisher, CCE, Baun Mah and Ian Sit from the hit shows Big Brother , The Amazing Race , Yukon Gold , and In The Making share how they get to the finish line. F...