LIFETIME MEMBERS
Lifetime Memberships are presented by the Australian Screen Editors Guild to people who have, over a significant period of time, made a contribution to our screen industry in such a way as to have a positive impact on editing and Editors.
Our lifetime members have all made a difference to the editing profession. Some of our lifetime members are editors who retired from regular editing work before our awards and accreditations systems came into being and whose achievements the guild wanted to find another way to recognise.
Other lifetime members are people who have worked behind the scenes on behalf of editors and the art of editing, supporting us and our work with their own skills and dedication.
Lifetime membership is given rarely and is always a sign of great respect and appreciation from the editing community of Australia.
Anthony Buckley AM
Regarded as one of the leaders of the Australian film industry, Anthony Buckley began his career as a laboratory assistant and later as a film editor with the Sydney newsreel company Cinesound. Through the 1960s he edited many notable feature films including Michael...
Evelyn Cronk
ASE Lifetime Membership awarded 2001. Evelyn started her career on July 14th 1964 at Senior Films in St Kilda as an assistant to editor David Bilcock Jr. Evelyn doesn’t know why she was chosen, as she had no skills in the area and feels David Bilcock Senior hired her...
Brian Kavanagh ASE
One of my favourite film stories concerns a visiting Hollywood actress (renowned for cosmetic enhancement) while filming in Australia, retired to her caravan for the lunch break. When called later by the First AD to continue filming the same scene, she appeared in a...
John Leonard
John started out as a casual lighting assistant at Channel 7 before taking up a full-time position at channel 9 in 1963. After a year he resumed engineering studies until 1965 when Channel 9 advertised for videotape technicians and John joined the videotape...
Ken Sallows ASE
Many words these days are overused and misused. Ken Sallows is a man, who has a great respect for words. Especially those well expressed. Ken never wastes his own. I shudder to think what he will make of mine. Ken has a number of beliefs, traits and loves. I’ll list a...
Jack Swart
ASE Lifetime Membership awarded 2002. In 1986 Jack Swart was busy inventing Shotlister at Visualeyes, a post production house located in Kings Cross. At the time the industry was changing from film to tape but it was very clumsy when it came to editing tape to tape....
Hans Pomeranz OAM, 1938 – 2007
Hans' commitment to the Australian editing community started well before the Guild itself. Founder and Managing Director of legendary Spectrum Films (an ASE Sponsor), Hans nurtured many of today's filmmaking 'names' in their early years. Having started in a film lab...