Today on Art of the Cut a discussion of the Oscar-nominated Best Picture, Train Dreams with editor Parker Laramie.

Parker was the 2025 Winner of the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at Sundance for the documentary André Is an Idiot. He has also been nominated for 2 Emmys and a Cinema Eye Honors Award for his writing and editing on the non-fiction program, Allen v. Farrow. His other work includes the feature film Sing Sing, and the TV mini-series Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult, among many other projects.

Our conversation today includes: how a background in documentary editing helps with editing narrative features, creating dynamics by changing structure, and the power … and danger … of a cut to black.

If you'd like to read along with the podcast and see a trailer, behind the scenes photos, a timeline screenshot of Train Dreams - in Premiere - visit the BorisFX.com blog site

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