By Peter Kerkes Women looking for love, confused teenagers, entrepreneurs on the verge of a crisis: these are the customers who ask Luciana to be prescribed a birthday trip. https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/wishing-on-a-star-trailer-astrologer-documentary-1235041001/
5 Editing Tips from the Documentary Edit and Story Lab5 takeaways from editors M’Daya Meliani and Steph Ching after taking part in the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab.
Susan Korda discusses secrets from the editing roomEditor Susan Korda shares insights from her career as well as golden rules from Walter Murch (the rule of six) and William Faulker (“kill your darlings”).
Interview with Joe BiniEditor Joe Bini on trailers, filmmaking processes and editing of documentary vs. fiction.
Interview with Anne FabiniInterview with RCS member Anne Fabini focused among other subjects on her work with Talal Derki’s Of Fathers and Sons (in Spanish).
The Doc Life: Editing Documentary Film, aka an Exercise in PatienceFilm Independent blogger Anthony Ferranti looks at editing for documentary film featuring insights from filmmakers and editors on project scheduling, collaboration, and narrative structure.
15 Lessons You Can Learn From Thelma Schoonmaker About Film EditingThelma Schoonmaker has been Martin Scorsese’s editor for over 50 years. This article dissects her working methods.
Complicity Through Montage – A Call for an Intercultural Approach to Ethnographic FilmmakingIn this article, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier proposes that the adoption of interculturally conscious forms of montage techniques in filmmaking has the potential to create new meanings that challenge Western modes of representation and re-imagine the gap between Self and Other.
Editing the Past: How Eisenstein and Vertov Used Montage to Create Soviet HistoryThis study by Douglas Michael Priest examines how Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov made conscious choices about the structure of their films that led to historical revisionism both before and after the Cultural Revolution.
Montage Against All Odds: Antonia Majaca and Eyal Sivan in ConversationArt historian and curator Antonia Majaca and filmmaker and curator Eyal Sivan discuss Sivan’s 2010 four-part program of screenings and encounters Documentary Moments and his 2012 follow-up program Montage Interdit.
