INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES

As the coronavirus began to have an impact on our country, I contacted the international community of Editors that I met last October in Cologne to get a feel for how things were affecting our (mostly) European colleagues. There were stories of festivals being...

By Simon Callow-Wright Take us through the process involved in editing 'LOTS'? My co-editor Rachel Grierson-Johns and I would start by assembling together scenes for a character. Once everything was assembled, we’d compile all these scenes together into a character...

In late October I was lucky to be invited to a  Film Editing Festival in Cologne called Film Plus which celebrates the art and craft of film editing. The festival is primarily for a German audience, but attached to the festival is an International Film Editors Forum...

In October, on the way to an International Film Editors Forum in Cologne, I stopped by in LA to attend the West Coast Premiere of our very own Axel Grigor’s film about the acclaimed Aussie Editor Jill Bilcock ASE, ACE at the Harmony Gold Cinema. The screening was...

By Joni Campbell The ASE has had contact recently with Bus Stop Films who run a film school for, and make films with, people with an intellectual disability and others from marginalised communities. They are coordinating the development of an Inclusive Filmmaking...

Interview with Assistant Editor and Animatic Editor Annie Zhang (With Jenny Kapp) Annie Zhang spoke to ASE about transitioning from finance into the film industry as an Assistant Editor, and shared her advice for others wanting to do the same. How did you get into...

In July WIFT and Dame Changer organised a get together of the various advocacy groups for women in television, and the guilds were also invited. The idea was to find out what everyone is doing and see where we can collaborate and perhaps combine events and share...

By Andrew Holmes Four months ago, I was handed a treatment on "Death Hotels of Varanasi, India". Considered the spiritual capital of India, Varanasi draws Hindu pilgrims who bathe in the Ganges River’s sacred waters and perform funeral rites. Dying in the holy city...

Interview with Editor and Assistant Editor Krystle Penhall (With Jenny Kapp.)   For the past nine years Krystle Penhall has worked as an Editor and Assistant film Editor across both live action and full CG television and features. She currently works as a VFX...