Apprentice Editors

Working on Leverage gave Kenneth L. Johnson his own leverage to push his own shop, Artistry in Sound, to the next level.

It’s a journey of marriage, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens.

“I believe that movies are getting more and more complex visually, and the more visually complex they get, the more they have to rely on the sound to sell those …

Michael Pedraza is a man with a plan. While attending film school in Arizona, he decided that he would work with one of his two favorite editors—Michael Kahn, A.C.E., or …

By the time I was 25, I was a store manager working long hours with little respect and a low level of creativity.  I needed a change.

A very summer, my family got invited to the Paramount Studio picnic by my uncle, Al Zuniga. New movie and TV stars would appear; most notably for me were the …

CineMontage sat down with the two collaborators at Cox’s cutting room at Malpaso on the Warner lot as they were finishing post-production on Gran Torino.

To help navigate through all the improvised sequences, Alpert extensively used Avid’s Script Tool, an older but still useful utility on a movie such as ‘Pineapple Express’.

My career has been filled with luck and many serendipitous moments that brought me to this space in time.

Production felt like endless problem solving––whereas editing was about storytelling using a vocabulary of images and sounds, and that excited me.