Category Archives: Documentaries

Documentary Editor’s discuss their work at Edit Fest NY

Posted on March 7, 2012 by jonny

Steve Audette has posted up the full length, three part, panel discussion from Edit Fest NY 2011, which features four professional documentary editors talking about everything from how they got their start to the ins and outs of their craft, … Continue reading →

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Learning from the pros – BAFTA Online…

Posted on March 5, 2012 by jonny

Learn your craft from Hollywood legends… BAFTA have a fantastic array of high quality material on their site and its well worth a rummage. Here are some of my favourite finds…. The David Lean Lectures – A short lecture on … Continue reading →

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An exemplary lecture on editing documentaries…

Posted on March 3, 2012 by jonny

How to edit a documentary Stumbled across this fine lecture by Steve Audette on how to edit documentaries in a gripping fashion. Steve has edited for over a decade for Frontline and Nova and explains the way he edits documentaries … Continue reading →

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Film vs Digital

Posted on February 16, 2012 by jonny

Here is the trailer for an interesting new documentary, Side by Side – The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema, featuring (of all people!) Keanu Reeves, on the future of the film industry as film is seemingly on the … Continue reading →

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Press Pause Play – The Creative Pulse of the Globe

Posted on February 2, 2012 by jonny

This is a free feature length documentary which essentially feels like sticking a thermometer into the creative globe and coming to grips with the result. A digital revolution that is kill off old industries, producing a world of mediocre ‘grey … Continue reading →

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Ink & Paper

Posted on January 24, 2012 by jonny

This is a fantastically well made short documentary from Ben Proudfoot, a student at the University of Southern California. He captures the characters, jeopardy and hope brilliantly. I’m just glad vimeo exists for the common enjoyment of films like his.

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Life In A Day – Free on Youtube

Posted on November 25, 2011 by jonny

Kevin McDonald’s epic documentary created from over 4500 hours of footage uploaded to youtube by 80,000 people in 192 different countries on July 24th 2010. Its now free to watch on yotube.com  - Life In A Day

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Editing Documentaries with Scorcese

Posted on October 6, 2011 by jonny

Studio daily have a short but interesting Q&A with editor David Tedeschi on what its like to work with Martin Scorcese on his numerous documentary films. Read all about it here.

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Film Portraits & The Wisdom Project

Posted on September 2, 2011 by jonny

Here is a great short talk, from the99percent.com, by Andrew Zuckerman on the lessons he learned whilst making the wisdom project. Insightful stuff. Here is the trailer for the final film…

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DVD Extras for Editors….

Posted on July 17, 2011 by jonny

Personally I love it when filmmakers cram their dvd releases with as many extras as they can. Here are a few of my favourites, in no particular order or preference which focus on film editors and film editing…

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