INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES

OUT TAKES - ANDREA LANG ASE Editing off-grid – Get out of the room. It was about the time I pulled up in the ute, sweltering and swearing under the Scenic Hill repeaters that I started to reconsider the sanity of editing off the grid.  An hour before I drove 3km down...

In all productions whether drama, documentary or reality television, the Assistant Editor is a key and crucial role in keeping the post-production workflow flowing. Assistants are the manager of rushes, the technical support team and are there to do whatever is...

Digistor Helps Small ArchViz Studio Deliver Big Studio Results. Ben Goodwin founded visualisation studio ENJAMIN Virtual Australia in 2005 with the aim of helping organisations define, plan and visualise their building development projects. Enjamin works directly with...

When someone asks me to edit a film, I get the script and give it a read. With experience, you begin to see what might be problematic or redundant when it comes to finally getting down to cutting. I’m also a big believer in first impressions - "You don’t get a second...

  'WHITELEY' The Edit by Lawrie Silvestrin ASE When director James Bogle and I sat down to start editing 'Whiteley', not a frame of new footage had been shot for the film. No new interviews, no artwork, no contemporary images of the places Brett had lived and...

The hotly anticipated event; 'Wentworth' Edit Suite provided a rare insider's look into drama editing.  As expected, the well-attended evening was entertaining and insightful for old and new members alike. The state-of-the-art facilities at Soundfirm in Port Melbourne...

On Sunday 23 July, at the Lord Dudley Hotel in Woollahra, three editors from varied backgrounds reflected  on their career a decade after receiving accreditation, in a very entertaining and informative event, hosted by Dr Karen Pearlman. Philippa Rowlands ASE –...

Nick Beauman ASE and Jenny Hicks NICK BEAUMAN ASE – ASE Lifetime Member and Mentor: I have been in film post-production for 57 years;  everything I’ve learned has largely been through trial and error, and I realise looking back how invaluable a mentor might have been...

In February I was fortunate enough to attend the 2017 Berlinale Talents program, run in conjunction with the Berlin International Film Festival (BIFF). I was one of three Australians selected; Tony Radevski (Director) and Lee Matthews (Producer) also formed part of...

2016 was the 21st Anniversary of the formation of the Australian Screen Editors Guild, with the legendary Henry Dangar ASE becoming the first president.  Prior to the ASE, Australian Editors had the ‘Film Editors Guild of Australia’ - FEGA:  Active in the late 60s and...