Apprentice Editors

Hollywood mythology has it that a determined person can start in the mailroom and end up at the top of the business. While very few people actually make that myth …

When Tatiana S. Riegel, A.C.E., set her mind to become a film editor, she went about it with the methodical planning to be expected from the daughter of an astronomy …

When I saw the ending montage of my character walking into the sunset to the Doors’ “Not to Touch the Earth,” I was floored at the raw emotion it invoked …

I was preparing for a career in Foley.  Whether I was imitating a birdcall that I heard during recess or pantomiming the rhythm of Miss Brady’s heels clip-clopping down the …

Film flows deeply through the blood of editor Christopher Rouse, A.C.E., as a third-generation participant in the industry.

Screenwriters aren’t the only ones benefitting from the richness of material now playing on cable television, or streaming from Netflix. The complexity of subject matter and shooting styles, previously the …

I was fortunate to fall into picture editing.

CineMontage spoke with Michael Tronick, A.C.E. as he was finishing work on ‘2 Guns’. 

CineMontage interviewed the two editors as they were finishing work on ‘The Hangover Part III.’

It was the news that the American Cinema Editors (ACE) had selected him for a Career Achievement Award that prompted Richard Marks to revisit his life’s work.