SHORT ENDS
 Alan Heim. Photo by Jared Abramson |
ALL THAT EDITING JAZZ
The Manhattan Edit Workshop hosted a lively discussion of the editing
process through the work of award-winning picture editor Alan Heim,
ACE, whose career spans 30 years. Heim screened clips from his
extensive body of work, shared tales from the field and offered valuable
insights into the art of visual storytelling. He also took questions
from the audience, which consisted of many New York-based Guild members.
Aside from his Oscar-, BAFTA- and Eddie Award-winning work on All
That Jazz, he also edited such films as Network, Lenny,
Hair, American History X and The Notebook.
SOUND APPOINTMENTS
Supervising sound editor Michael Geisler and re-recording mixers Jon Taylor
and Christian P. Minkler have joined Universal Studios Sound. Geisler’s
appointment expands the division’s services in animation and gaming,
while the team of Taylor and Minkler will mix features on Mixing Stage 6 on
the Universal lot in Universal City, California.
Geisler has wide-ranging experience in feature film and television as a sound supervisor, sound designer and dialogue supervisor, with credits including the Cartoon Network’s Squirrel Boy and Courage the Cowardly Dog. He also worked on the animated features How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Space Jam and the cult classic television series The Ren & Stimpy Show.
 Michael Geisler. |
Taylor and Minkler mixed the Academy Award-winning film Babel and earned BAFTA and Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Award nominations for their work. The team’s recent projects include Gone Baby Gone, The Heartbreak Kid and The Number 23.
GUILD GETS MOTIVATED
The Editors Guild hosted a seminar presented by Jackie Jaye Brandt, motivational
speaker, corporate and family psychotherapist and author at the Hollywood
office on November 15. Brandt shared personal experiences and real-life lessons
as she spoke to Guild members about communication skills, maintaining quality
relationships and asking for what one deserves. She encouraged attendees to
ask for what they wanted in the workplace and at home.
The key speaker for the Motion Picture and Television Fund for the past 11 years, she had delivered more than 300 lectures, and has trained and motivated the staffs of DreamWorks, the Walt Disney Company, Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros., Fox Sports, SAG, AFTRA and a large percentage of families in the entertainment community.
 Katina Zinner before one of her large-format paintings at the Edgemar Center. |
EDITOR AS ARTIST
Picture editor Katina Zinner is also a painter and her artwork, along
with sculptures created by her mother, Christa, comprise the InsideOut
2007 exhibit at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, California.
The exhibit, which runs through February 29, 2008, showcases Katina’s
large-format “Flowing Abstracts” oil series, inspired
by her love of the ocean, and Christa’s lifelike bronze nudes
and busts of unique personalities.
“While editing is a collaborative process, in which I put together great moments already captured on film, when I paint, it’s almost the antithesis, where my most personal internal experiences are expressed onto a canvas with no other input but the stare of my pets,” Katina says. For more information, call 310-399-3666.
 Jay Cassidy, ACE and Sean Penn. Photo by Michael Bezjian/WireImage.com |
CASSIDY CITED
Jay Cassidy, ACE, left, receives the Hamilton Behind the Camera Award
for Editing from actor/director Sean Penn. Cassidy has edited all
of Penn’s films, including the current Into the Wild.
The awards were presented in at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood November
11.
KIDS JOIN AIDS WALK
The Editors Guild AIDS Walk team raised over $9,000 and had over 40 walkers
at the 23rd annual LA AIDS Walk on October 21. The star walker again was Stephanie
Lowry, who raised over $3,000 herself. The Walk raised a record $3.9
million.
The kids are, from left (front row), Jaclyn Grubin (Guild member
Lee Grubin’s daughter), Sebastien Dumareille, (second
row) Chanel Mozer, Emmanuel Morales, Daniel Hilarto, Hesiquio
Mendes, Matisse Mozer, Monserrat Vargas, Spencer-Rose Mozer,
(third row) Freddy Martinez and Adam Marangakis. |
In an altruistic move, Tim Mozer’s son Matisse celebrated his 16th birthday that weekend and, as an alternative to a traditional birthday party, he invited his friends to participate and raise money to fight AIDS in lieu of giving him gifts.
The team for the annual event was again organized by Maggie Ostroff, and LA MadDogs returned with their sponsorship of the team by supplying special Editors Guild AIDS Walk T-shirts. Special thanks are due to Mozer for manning the sign-in table, as well as to Christy Richmond and Sue Demskey for all their help.
REEL OF GOLD
Sound editor Bill Wistrom, MPSE, is the 2008 Career Achievement Award recipient
for the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE). The award will be presented at
the 55th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards Saturday, February 23 at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Also, director Michael Bay (Transformers)
will be honored as Filmmaker of the Year.
A PAIR OF ACES
 Millie Moore, ACE. |
Millie Moore, ACE, and Bud Smith, ACE, will receive the American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) Lifetime Career Achievement Awards, which honor veteran editors whose body of work and reputation within the industry is outstanding, at the 58th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, February 17 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Also honored with the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award will be director Norman Jewison.
In other ACE news, the organization’s annual “Invisible Art/Visible Artists” panel discussion of the Oscar-nominated picture editors will take place at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood Saturday, February 23 at 10:00 a.m. ACE President Alan Heim will moderate the event as the editors screen clips of their nominated films and discuss their art.
 Bud Smith. |
CALENDAR GIRL
The 2008 MPEG Calendars are now available! Please visit www.editorsguild.com
home page to place your order. Calendars are complimentary to all
active members of the Guild. Special thanks are in order to
Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives for supplying the historic images
from his photographic collection. He can be reached at bisonarchives@yahoo.com.
 Bud Smith. |