The Editor's Cut

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 18th, 2020: In Conversation with Sonia Godding-Togobo.

Sonia is a film and television editor to know. Her rise in the industry is nothing short of prolific. After 20 years, she has acquired an assortment of credits including editing television programs for the Oprah Winfrey Network, Channel 4, The Discovery Channel, HGTV and the BBC. In this episode we discuss the award-winning CBC POV documentary Mr. Jane and Finch, a portrait of long-standing community activist and amateur documentarian, Winston LaRose.

This talk was moderated by Sedina Fiati, a performer, producer, creator and activist for stage and screen. She holds a BFA in Music Theatre from the University of Windsor and is also a graduate of Etobicoke School of the Arts. Sedina is very active in the Toronto media arts scene advocating for increased representation of people of colour, LGBTQ+, D/deaf and disabled artists on camera and in all creative and crew roles.

It's been one year since our worlds have changed and we thought it was a good time to check in on our mental health.

Sarah Taylor sits down with psychotherapist Rebecca Day to talk about our mental health as creatives in the midst of a pandemic.

Rebecca Day is a qualified psychotherapist and freelance documentary producer. She founded her company, Film In Mind in 2018 to address mental health in the film industry and has spoken at festivals such as Berlinale, IDFA, Getting Real Documentary Conference, WIFT and Sheffield DocFest on the issue. She offers therapeutic support and supervision to filmmakers working in difficult situations and with vulnerable people, as well as consultancies and workshops on mental health in the film industry.

Her previous feature, Becoming Animal, directed by Emma Davie & Peter Mettler was a Scottish/Swiss co-production and premiered at CPH Dox in 2018. She is currently working with the impact team on Evelyn, an intimate and poignant film about death by suicide, made by academy award-winning director Orlando Von Eisendel at Grain Media and is producing a documentary with first-time feature director, Duncan Cowles titled, Silent Men.

Today's episode is the online master series that took place on August 4th, 2020. In Conversation with Tom Cross, ACE. Tom and Sarah Taylor discuss his career journey from video store clerk to assistant editor to Oscar awarding winning editor. As well as his collaboration with director Damien Chazelle on the films Whiplash, La La Land and First Man. They also talked about the anticipated release of No Time to Die and what it was like working on the James Bond series.

This episode is the online master series that took place on July 21st, 2020. The CCE partnered with BiPOC TV and film to bring you In Conversation with Jeremy Harty, CCE and Cory Bowles about the movie Black Cop.

On its release in 2017, Black Cop garnered critical acclaim as an unapologetic challenge of race and police. With a range of visuals from body cam to camera phones - dash cam to traditional camera work, Black Cop made use of multiple techniques to bring a fast paced hyper connected narrative to life. Edited by Jeremy Harty, CCE and was the directorial debut for Cory Bowles. This event was moderated by Shonna Foster.

This episode is the online master series that took place on May 24th, 2020 - In Conversation with Mary Stephen, CCE.

Born in Hong Kong and based in Paris, Mary Stephen has been working in narrative film and documentary for more than 30 years as an editor. Her work has been screened internationally at Venice, Cannes, and Tribeca film festivals. Known for her decades-long collaboration with French filmmaker Eric Rohmer, she has worked in Europe and Asia on numerous award-winning feature documentaries and fiction including Tiffany Hsiung's The Apology, Lixin Fan's Last Train Home, Li Yang's Blind Mountain, Ann Hui's Our Time Will Come and the upcoming Love After Love.

This event was by moderated by Xi Feng.

This episode is the online master series that took place on May 13th, 2020. Edit Chat's with Ken Filewych. CCE.

Ken's diverse career has included editing Joni Mitchell's ballet The Fiddle and the Drum, Tricia Helfer's Walk All Over Me and the legendary band the smalls reunion tour documentary Forever Is A Long Time. He has also cut over 100 episodes of Heartland - the longest running one hour drama in Canadian history on which he is currently serving as Supervising Picture Editor.

Besides editing, Ken has directed dramatic television, commercials and live sports events.

Sarah Taylor and Ken talk about workflow and process with an emphasis on speed and why Ken thinks being fast is part of being a great editor.

Dans ce nouvel épisode, Justin Lachance, CCE s'entretient avec Benjamin Duffield. Ils passent en revue les derniers projets de Benjamin : la série télé populaire C'EST COMME ÇA QUE JE T'AIME, le documentaire RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD, ainsi qu'un film documentaire de longue haleine où il tient à la fois le rôle de réalisateur et de monteur, et sur lequel il a travaillé pendant près de 10 années, MEGALODEMOCRAT : L'ART PUBLIC DE RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER.

In this new episode, Justin Lachance, CCE interviews Benjamin Duffield. They will review Benjamin's latest projects: the hit TV series C'EST COMME ÇA QUE JE T'AIME, the documentary RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD, as well as an extensive documentary project where he plays 2 roles, director and editor, and on which he worked for almost 10 years, MEGALODEMOCRAT: THE PUBLIC ART OF RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER.

Liza Cardinale, ACE is a television editor based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work spans many genres from comedy to fantasy and often features stories with complex female characters. Some of her credits include Outlander, Dead To Me which earned her an Eddie nomination, and the upcoming dramedy On The Verge. We chat about Liza's editing journey from New York to LA and what life is like during the pandemic.

Today's episode is the online Master Series that took place on May 19th, 2020. Edit Chats with Kimberlee McTaggart, CCE and Thorben Bieger, CCE.

Thorben is a CSA nominated editor who has edited several series and a number of features including The Child Remains, Heartbeat and All the Wrong reasons.

Kimberlee is a Gemini award winning editor of TV series, docs, and feature films such as Blackbird and the upcoming Little Orphans.

Kimberlee and Thorben have worked together on several series such as Call Me Fitz, Pure and Diggstown. They discuss their work, and what it's like to carve out a successful editing career while working and living in Nova Scotia.

This event was moderated by Amanda Mitro.

In today's episode Sarah Taylor chats with Ryan Kovak, an editor based in Toronto who at this point in his career has assisted or edited 20 holiday movies! They discuss his latest holiday movie The Christmas Setup which is Lifetime's first-ever LGBTQ+ Christmas movie.