Editors - Fred Raskin ACE and Greg D'Auria GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL. 3 editors Fred Raskin and Greg D'Auria find themselves in familiar territory; collaborating on a James Gunn project. But their twenty-year plus relationship dates back much further than their work with Gunn. The two first collaborated on Tarantino's KILL BILL: VOL. 1 (2003). In James Gunn's final installment of the "Guardians" trilogy, Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team to defend the uni...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Editors - Glenn Garland ACE, Bob Ducsay ACE, Paul Swain, Shaheed Qaasim The POKER FACE editing team of Garland, Ducsay, Qaasim and Swain might sound like a formidable name for a law firm, but their real talents lie in making a great "howcatchem" show with noted director and series creator, Rian Johnson. POKER FACE is a murder mystery series stylized as a character-driven, case-of-the-week mystery, with each episode adapting the inverted detective story format popularized by COLUMBO. The series c...
May 01, 2023•54 min
Editor - Kristi Shimek INVITATION TO A MURDER editor Kristi Shimek, like the protagonist of her new film, is not afraid of a challenge when it comes to figuring out how to piece a complex story together. Having already amassed a credit list that is both long and varied, Kristi is equally comfortable cutting a classic whodunnit as she is with a rom-com or a grizzly horror flick. Part of that comfort may come from feeling at home, quite literally and figuratively, with the her frequent director an...
Apr 24, 2023•49 min
Editor - Ryan Folsey RENFIELD editor Ryan Folsey never went to summer camp and never went to film school. His formative years were spent on the lot at Universal Studios and on location with his father, editor George Folsey Jr. (ANIMAL HOUSE, THE BLUES BROTHERS, COMING TO AMERICA, MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER). It was there that Ryan learned and fell in love with the craft of editing. In his professional life, Ryan has applied his craft to films such as; CABIN FEVER (2002), THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE (...
Apr 17, 2023•51 min
Editor, William Goldenberg ACE AIR editor William Goldenberg ACE ("Billy" to his friends) re-joins The Rough Cut to discuss his new film with director Ben Affleck. A highly accomplished editor, Billy has been nominated for an Oscar® a total of five times for THE INSIDER, SEABISCUIT, THE IMITATION GAME, ZERO DARK THIRTY and ARGO. The latter two nominations came on the same year, with Billy ultimately winning for ARGO, directed by Ben Affleck. Goldenberg and Affleck also worked together on LIVE BY...
Apr 10, 2023•53 min
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - Editor Dan Lebental ACE DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES editor, Dan Lebental ACE makes his fourth appearance on The Rough Cut. Dan was on previously to discuss SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (2019), ELF (2003) and BAD BOYS FOR LIFE (2020). Based on Hasbro's beloved role playing game, Dan's new film is about a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventur...
Apr 03, 2023•47 min
John Wick: Chapter 4 - Editor Nathan Orloff, Asst. and Additional Editor Nicholas Lundgren JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 editor, Nathan Orloff and assistant and additional editor, Nicholas Lundgren first joined forces in their early days at JJ Abrams' Bad Robot studio, with their initial collaborative effort being director Morgan Dameron's DIFFERENT FLOWERS (2017). For director Chad Stahelski's latest installment of the chronicles of the reluctant hit man, Nathan and Nicholas are together once again, thi...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Editors - Laura Jennings and Adam Gerstel Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania editors Laura Jennings and Adam Gerstel jumped in with both feet when director Peyton Reed suggested that he wanted to have a "unified" cutting room unlike any Marvel movie that had come before. The result? A director's cut driven by two editors, one Avid, a pair of dueling Bluetooth keyboards, and no regrets! In Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, which officially kicks off phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Super...
Feb 27, 2023•39 min
Editors - Yvette M. Amirian, ACE and Matt Friedman, ACE When it comes to learning editing in film school, who better to learn from than ACE editors? When they aren't in the cutting rooms themselves, editors Yvette M. Amirian, ACE and Matt Friedman, ACE are in the classrooms of two of the most prestigious film schools in the world. Yvette has returned to the institution where she received her own filmmaking education, USC, to help inform the next generation as to what they need to know about the ...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Editor - Chris McCaleb, ACE TO LESLIE editor Chris McCaleb ACE has been exploring the art and craft of editing since 2000, working closely with filmmakers like Michael Mann, John Sayles, and Vince Gilligan over the years. In 2006, McCaleb co-founded the filmmaking collective Big Fantastic, where he was involved in the writing, directing, producing and editing of over 400 episodes of original online dramas, such as the Emmy-nominated “Prom Queen” and “Sam Has 7 Friends.” McCaleb returned to edito...
Feb 13, 2023•58 min
Editor - Matt Chesse, ACE A MAN CALLED OTTO editor Matt Chesse ACE once again finds himself cutting with frequent collaborator, director Marc Forster. The pair have been working together since 2000 and have joined forces on such films as; MONSTER'S BALL(2001), FINDING NEVERLAND (2004), THE KITE RUNNER (2007), QUANTUM OF SOLACE (2008) and CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (2018). For their latest project, the two have the enormous task of delicately balancing drama and comedy in their cinematic adaptation of the...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr
Editor - Doc Crotzer, ACE SHOTGUN WEDDING editor Doc Crotzer ACE has plenty of experience cutting comedy, but most of that came from his ACE Eddie-nominated work on the hit tv series, GLEE. Prior to SHOTGUN WEDDING, Doc's only real studio feature film experience was in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy film, CHAOS WALKING (2021); which didn't exactly afford him the opportunity to go for laughs. That all changed with his sophomore feature film effort, the new action comedy SHOTGUN WEDDING. SHOTGUN WEDDING sees ...
Jan 30, 2023•48 min
Editor - Jeff McEvoy M3GAN editor Jeff McEvoy doesn't exactly spend his free time going down the rabbit hole that is TikTok. More often he can be found getting in some exercise in the cutting room or on the hiking trails. So he was just as surprised as anyone when the trailer for his Blumhouse horror movie about a "killer robot doll" blew up on the social media site most famous for showcasing lousy dancing and eating challenges. But what should be no surprise is that Jeff's considerable storytel...
Jan 23, 2023•53 min
Editor - Stephen E. Rivkin ACE AVATAR - THE WAY OF WATER editor Steve Rivkin was no stranger to crafting an epic sci-fi film with director James Cameron. Rivkin was on hand for the original, record-shattering film that spawned what would become a fantasy franchise. Still, with WAY OF WATER, there would be new challenges to overcome, not the least of which would be working with ground-breaking underwater motion capture techniques and unique processes such as "facial performance replacement". Twel...
Jan 16, 2023•40 min
Editor - Sven Budelmann ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT editor Sven Budelmann knew he was in for a challenge in remaking the classic German anti-war novel. Not only was the novel already brought to the big screen as a 1930 Oscar® winner for Best Picture, but adding to the task was that this film would be the first ever adaptation made by German filmmakers. Fortunately Sven would be collaborating with a director with whom he was quiet familiar. Prior to this project, Sven had worked with director ...
Jan 09, 2023•47 min
Editor - Daysha Broadway, ACE I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY editor Daysha Broadway, ACE returns to The Rough Cut podcast with both an Emmy® in hand for her work on HBO'S A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW and her first feature film as an editor. A Los Angeles native, Daysha began her career with a Master's Degree in Film Editing from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. Prior to her feature editing debut, Daysha had spent most of her career editing documentary, scripted, and unscripte...
Jan 02, 2023•51 min
Editors - Michael Kahn ACE and Sarah Broshar THE FABELMANS editors Michael Kahn ACE and Sarah Broshar have been working together for sixteen years, going back to the film 10 ITEMS OR LESS (2006), written and directed by Brad Silberling. At that time, Sarah was in the cutting room as an apprentice. It would be five more years before Sarah would work with both Michael Kahn AND Steven Spielberg on THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (2011); this time as an assistant. Six years later on Spielberg's THE POST (2...
Dec 26, 2022•29 min
Editor - Tom Cross, ACE BABYLON editor Tom Cross, ACE first really made a name for himself working alongside director Damien Chazelle on their breakout film, WHIPLASH (2014). Among the many accolades garnered by the film was Cross's Oscar® win for Best Film Editing. Chazelle and Cross would follow that up with another hit movie, LA LA LAND (2016), for which Cross was again nominated for an Oscar®. The two would team up yet again for FIRST MAN (2018), a biopic about astronaut Neil Armstrong. Prio...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min
Editor - Brad Wilhite SPIRITED editor Brad Wilhite had plenty of experience cutting for laughs, but when you put it to music, that's a whole different story. Brad didn't even like musicals before he took the job of cutting SPIRITED. But with a little research and a little help from editorial angels like Myron Kerstein ACE, Tom Cross ACE and Debra Neil-Fisher ACE, Brad soon found the Christmas spirit in the cutting room. Brad also reunited on SPIRITED with the writing/directing team of Sean Ander...
Dec 12, 2022•53 min
Editor - Bob Ducsay, ACE GLASS ONION editor Bob Ducsay ACE has forged a tight collaborative bond with director Rian Johnson, going back to their first film, LOOPER (2012). And although GLASS ONION is only their fourth feature together, the quality of their work has been recognized by audiences, critics and the industry at large. The pair were recently honored with the inaugural Variety Creative Collaborators Award at the 10th annual Middleburg Film Festival. [ Purloined from the good folks at RO...
Dec 05, 2022•51 min
Editors - Ken Schretzmann ACE and Holly Klein PINOCCHIO editors Ken Schretzmann ACE and Holly Klein each have a background rich with experience in animation. But while Ken's is in editing CGI-animated features like TOY STORY 3 (2010) and CARS (2006), Holly's earlier work was actually as an animator for TV shows such as BLUES CLUES and WONDER PETS! Together they took on the roles of Animatic Editor (Ken) and Production Editor (Holly) to help tame the massive challenge of crafting a contemporary s...
Nov 28, 2022•49 min
Editor - A. Sreekar Prasad RRR editor A. Sreekar Prasad not only knows how to cut a great movie, he knows how to do it quickly when required. But despite having a massive fourteen film credits to his name in 2022 alone, Sreekar's time on RRR was actually spread out over three years, with a constant cycle of cutting scenes and turning them over to VFX to accommodate for the huge role CGI played in bringing RRR to life. In addition to RRR, A. Sreekar Prasad is known for his work on TALVAR (2015), ...
Nov 21, 2022•49 min
Editor - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, ACE THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN editor Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, ACE makes his return to The Rough Cut, having previously appeared on the show to talk about the film that would land him an Oscar® for Best Film Editing, SOUND OF METAL (2020). In addition to the delicate challenge of filling the void left by the passing of editor Jon Gregory, director Martin McDonagh's frequent collaborator in the cutting room, Mikkel was also tasked with a crafting a film that walked a fine...
Nov 14, 2022•42 min
Black Adam - Editor, Mike Sale ACE BLACK ADAM editor, Mike Sale ACE is no stranger to the action comedy genre - emphasis on comedy. With films to his credit such as; FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008), BRIDESMAIDS (2011), THE HANGOVER II (2011), WE’RE THE MILLERS (2013), CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (2016), SKYSCRAPER (2018), SPENCER CONFIDENTIAL (2020) and RED NOTICE (2021), it should be obvious to anyone that Mike knows how to edit movies about cracking jokes and breaking bones. But the latest entry in ...
Nov 07, 2022•51 min
Writer / Director - Matthew Gentile and Editor - Matt Allen Friends and fellow American Film Institute vets, Matthew Gentile and Matt Allen, turned their long walks in Los Feliz into a collaborative indie filmmaking venture that would become their first project together, AMERICAN MURDERER. Prior to this film, Matthew Gentile was biding his time as a script reader and making a name for himself directing short films. Meanwhile, ACE Eric Zumbrunnen Fellowship winner Matt Allen was racking up experi...
Oct 31, 2022•44 min
MAKING THE CUT AT PIXAR authors - Bobbie O'Steen and Bill Kinder MAKING THE CUT AT PIXAR co-authors Bill Kinder and Bobbie O’Steen are experts in the field of post production. Kinder was the founding Director of Editorial and Post Production at Pixar from 1996–2014 and O’Steen is a teacher and film historian, specializing in editing, as well as the author of The Invisible Cut and Cut to the Chase . Together they have created a multimedia "book" that guides readers on a journey through every stag...
Oct 24, 2022•53 min
Director / Composer - Michael Giacchino and Editor - Jeffrey Ford ACE WEREWOLF BY NIGHT'S Michael Giacchino and Jeffrey Ford have had many occasions to work together in the past, but never quite like this. While WEREWOLF BY NIGHT is Michael's first time in the director's chair for Marvel Studios, he's been the composer on five of their features, two of which were also cut by Marvel stalwart, Jeffrey Ford. However, this special presentation for Disney + marks their first time collaborating as dir...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Amsterdam - Editor, Jay Cassidy ACE AMSTERDAM editor, Jay Cassidy ACE has cultivated an impressive career spanning almost fifty years and approximately sixty different projects. Cassidy has worked extensively with directors such as David O. Russell and Sean Penn, as well as documentarian Davis Guggenheim. Thrice-nominated for an Oscar for his work on Penn's INTO THE WILD (2008); as well as Russell's SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2013) and AMERICAN HUSTLE (2014), Jay is not one to settle for status qu...
Oct 10, 2022•45 min
The Woman King - Editor, Terilyn A. Shropshire ACE For over twenty years editor Terilyn A. Shropshire ACE and director Gina Prince-Bythewood have worked hand-in-hand to entertain and inspire audiences with films dating back to Gina's directorial debut, LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000). Following their hit action film, THE OLD GUARD (2020) , Teri and Gina have joined forces once again to create an epic tale about the Agojie, a fierce sisterhood of African warriors who fought for the kingdom of Dahome...
Oct 03, 2022•49 min
Director - Doug Liman Director Doug Liman sat down with us at his NYC office in 2011 to discuss his early beginnings in the film business as well as his thoughts on; film school, editing and "making it" in Hollywood. Doug Liman is known for directing the films; SWINGERS (1996), GO (1999), THE BOURNE IDENTITY (2002), MR. AND MRS. SMITH (2007), JUMPER (2008), FAIR GAME (2010), EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014), CHAOS WALKING (2021). Doug is currently in production on a remake of the Patrick Swayze classic, ...
Sep 26, 2022•37 min
