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He wrote and directed the acclaimed feature The Uncles (Odeon Films), named one of Canada’s Top Ten by the Cinemateque Ontario. Julio C. Perez, IV lives and works in Los Angeles, editing in both narrative and documentary. He has recently worked with director Sam Levinson on the series EUPHORIA, as well as the upcoming feature MALCOLM AND MARIE.

En discussion avec Myriam Poirier, CCE

• Raised on Star Trek, Justin’s original plan was to push flashy buttons on a starship as an actor.
• She just completed SponsorLand the feature length doc for TV Ontario on a Syrian refugee family with 11 children resettling in the tiny town of Picton Ontario.
• Collins then edited David Cronenberg’s The Brood, which later became a cult classic.
• Join editor Ryan Morrison (STOWAWAY, ARCTIC) and assistant editor Russell Anderson (MANK) as they explore the challenges with remote editing work- flows and how they have solved them in their recent projects.
• He was distinguished with the 2018 Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Editing in a FeatureDocumentary for Unarmed Verses.

Stephen Philipson CCE is an award-winning editor and proud member of the CCE since the very start. His credits include high profile TV series such as American Gods, Hannibal, and Orphan Black. He also cut Canadian film favourites such as The Wild Hunt, voted Best Canadian First Feature and one of Canada’s Top Ten by the Toronto International Film Festival, and Grown Up Movie Star, a prize-winner at Sundance. Roslyn’s television projects can be seen on NETFLIX, HBO Canada, ABC, Syfy, Lifetime, Global and the CBC. She has earned CCE and DGC Nominations for her editing in the categories of documentary, TV Movie and Mini-Series. With a background in theatre, Malenfant is an editor with a passion for bringing out an actor’s talents and crafting their best performance.

The 5th Annual CCE Awards Nominees & Winners

Sarah Taylor is award-winning editor with over eighteen years of experience. She has a passion for storytelling and has cut a wide range of documentaries, corporate videos, television programs, and full length feature films. She is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) and is the host of the CCE podcast The Editor’s Cut. Projects like War Witch, Maelstrom or The Pillars of the Earth have garnered awards and nominations at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and throughout the world in major film festivals like TIFF, Cannes, or Berlin. He’s worked with some of the finest filmmakers in Quebec, like Denis Villeneuve, Philippe Falardeau, Kim Nguyen, and Louise Archambault. She began her career in unscripted television on iconic and Emmy-winning shows such as TOP CHEF and PROJECT RUNWAY.

Panel #1: Documentary Confidential

He received numerous awards for his work, including Canadian Film Editors Guild awards, an Etrog and a Genie nomination. Gillian has had a diverse career editing feature films, MOWs, drama series, and documentaries, in a variety of genres. She has worked with many prominent and celebrated producers and directors in the Film and TV industry including Moira Walley-Beckett, David Shore, Naren Shankar, Mark Fergus, Vincenzo Natali, and Helen Shaver. JJ NEEPIN – JJ Neepin is an independent, first nations filmmaker living in Winnipeg, Canada. JJ has written, directed and produced several short films, funded by various organizations, along with her sister and partner Justina Neepin.

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Paul has been a picture editor for 25 years and has worked with such companies as Netflix, MGM, AMC, Showtime and many more. Some of his recent editing credits include ANOTHER LIFE, RANSOM, INTO THE BADLANDS, DARK MATTER and LOST GIRL. He is one of the Canadian Cinema Editors’ co-founders and currently sits on the National Board for the Directors Guild of Canada. Stephen is honoured to serve as CCE President and help the CCE advocate for editors across Canada. In 1987 Alan was series editor on the original Degrassi High series directed by Kit Hood.

Panel #3: Behind the Cut with Richard Comeau, CCE

It had women in all key positions, and they took great care in creating an environment for the cult survivors who shared their stories, in which they felt supported before, during and after filming. We will discuss the ins and outs of shaping such a complex and sensitive story and the challenges that Inbal and Gillian came across in the edit suite. She received her BFA honors degree in Theatre from York University, where she studied in the Creative Ensemble Conservatory. She currently works as a freelance director, producer, and story consultant in film, television, and branded content, and is a longstanding board member of BIPOC TV and Film. Jeff Barnaby was born and raised on the rural Mi’gMaq reserve of Listuguj, Quebec.

Thank you to our CCE staff:

• Over the past decade, Véronique has edited a wide range of projects including short films, music videos, documentaries, advertising, and TV series.
• The skills required of an assistant editor in animation are quite different from those working in live-action.
• Join editor Ryan Morrison (STOWAWAY, ARCTIC) and assistant editor Russell Anderson (MANK) as they explore the challenges with remote editing work- flows and how they have solved them in their recent projects.
• Collins then edited David Cronenberg’s The Brood, which later became a cult classic.
• He hung around the University of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre, and its then director, Robert Gill, absorbing the world of theatre.
• The following year he was awarded both an ACE Eddie and a Gemini for Sword Of Gideon.

Multitalented moderator Sook-Yin Lee sits with Oscar-nominated editor Jinmo Yang, ACE for an in-depth conversation about the craft of Picture Editing. Laura Zempel grew up in Sacramento, CA and received a BFA in Film Production from Chapman University. She began her career in Film and TV as an assistant editor on DEXTER, and has gone on to edit HBO’s ROOM 104, EUPHORIA, and most recently AMC’s DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE. As the world settled into lockdown, TV entertainment went from distraction to lifeline. With audiences trying to make sense of world events, stories and characters matter more than ever. As the entertainment landscape shifts to meet an unprecedented need for engaging content delivered on-demand to an audience stuck at home, how will this change the stories we tell, and the way we tell them?

Isabelle Malenfant, CCE

Editors in doc have such a deep involvement in shaping the films that they can become credited co-directors or co-writers. Join us as our panel (Mike Munn CCE, Michèle Hozer CCE & Nick Hector CCE) explores the profound level of authorship editors can have in crafting a documentary. Writer-Director Jim Allodi is a graduate of the NYU film program, and the CFC Director’s Lab.

The 3rd Annual CCE Awards Nominees & Winners

After editing 13 features and numerous documentaries he began teaching Film Editing at Ryerson University in Toronto from 1994 to 2006, just as the industry was shifting from flatbed editing to digital editing. Ron has worked with directors including, Robert Longo, Daniel Petrie Jr., Sturla Gunnarson, Norman Jewison, and Henry Sellick. He collaborated with David Cronenberg on 19 films winning Genie Awards for Dead Ringers (1989), Crash (1996), eXistenZ (2000) and Eastern Promises (2007) and DGC Awards for A History of Violence (2006), Eastern Promises (2008) and A Dangerous Method (2012). He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Award for his work on Coraline (2010).

The 4th Annual CCE Awards Nominees & Winners

After graduating from the film program at York University, Michelle worked for many years as an assistant editor. This allowed her to be mentored and to collaborate with some of the leading forces in Canadian cinema. In addition to her work in film, Michelle edited two seasons of the Netflix/Rogers TV series Between, created by Michael McGowan. Her latest titles include the Cuban/Canadian film, Un Traductor, directed by Rodrigo and Sebastian Barriuso, which premiered in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and the upcoming Netflix/CBC series Northern Rescue. She has since had a diverse career editing drama series, feature films, and MOWs in a variety of genres, and the good fortune to work with many prominent and celebrated producers, directors, and screenwriters.

Morsi’s short scripts were finalists for Robert Bosch Film Fund (Berlin Film Festival) in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Morsi participated at the 2012 Berlinale Talent Campus, 2016 TIFF Talent Lab and Women in the Director’s Chair. Morsi’s short films scripts LIPSTICK, CHECK POINT & MANGO were named finalists for Robert Bosch Film Fund in 2013, 2014 and 2015 (affiliate with the Berlin Film Festival). As well, Mike has edited several award-winning documentaries, including Stories We Tell, for director Sarah Polley. His many television credits include Shaftesbury’s The Shields Stories and Sienna Film’s mini-series Diamonds, nominated for 9 Gemini awards.

For over 25 years, Paul has worked as an online, offline and supervising editor, cutting everything from animatics, 2D/3D animation, and stop-motion. Projects include Freaky Stories, Angela Anaconda, Franny’s Feet, Iggy Arbuckle, Johnny Test, Glenn Martin DDS and Nature Cat. When given the chance to work on it, Paul thought that he would be nuts not to!

Since moving to Los Angeles, Inbal has edited hundreds of hours of non-scripted network and cable television shows. She was also a Visiting Professor at UNCSA Film School, and a mentor in the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program. Over the course of her career, Inbal has worked in the cutting rooms of directors such as Davis Guggenheim (Teach), R.J. Cutler (“American Candidate”), Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge (A Lego Brickumentary), Jeremy Simmons (“Transgeneration”), Tracy Droz Tragos (Be Good, Smile Pretty) as well as Natalie Portman’s feature directorial debut (A Tale of Love and Darkness).

PANEL: Thrills & Chills – Editing Dark Genre in Feature Film

Raised on Star Trek, Justin’s original plan was to push flashy buttons on a starship as an actor. Fortunately, he found his calling pushing colourful keyboard buttons in a dark room. His work has been seen ‘round the world in festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW, TIFF, and most recently on HBO with the Emmy winning mini-series Big Little Lies. Roslyn’s recent drama series include Haven, Hemlock Grove, Ten Days in the Valley, and Mary Kills People. Roslyn’s passion for editing began in Montreal, where she studied Film and Screenwriting at McGill University.

His latest film, LUBA, won multiple awards at the Canadian Film Fest and earned him a CCE awards nomination. Recently completed are three short films screening at this year’s Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse. He is currently editing Easy Land, the first feature of Serbian-Canadian director Sanja Zivkovic. Chris has served as vice-president of the CCE and continues to stay involved as part of the Global Opportunities Committee. Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in) is an award-winning director and a leading talent in experimental documentary.

• JJ has written, directed and produced several short films, funded by various organizations, along with her sister and partner Justina Neepin.
• Perhaps Nick’s best known work stems from his long creative relationships with legendary Canadian filmmakers Allan King, Yvan Patry, and Sturla Gunnarsson.
• Award winning editor, Teresa has been editing TV drama for more than 20 years.
• His work has been seen ‘round the world in festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW, TIFF, and most recently on HBO with the Emmy winning mini-series Big Little Lies.
• He was continually recognized by the Canadian Film Editors Guild and won a Genie for his outstanding work on Joshua Then And Now.

Michèle’ short documentary, The Barber of Augusta film just recently won the Dodie Spittal Award at 2017 The Picture This Film Festival. She just completed SponsorLand the feature length doc for TV Ontario on a Syrian refugee family with 11 children resettling in the tiny town of Picton Ontario. Chris Mutton brings over 15 years of film and television experience to the edit suite.

• The first annual EditCon took place on Saturday February 10th, 2018 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.
• She is an alumni of Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Editor’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.
• Editor Christopher Malanchen shares some tips, tricks and best practices that he learned from editing on Vice’s THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (Season 2) and Cooking Channel’s BITCHIN’ KITCHEN and from his tenure as the VFX Editor for BIG LITTLE LIES (Season 2).
• The film is currently playing several festivals and aired with broadcaster APTN in fall of 2016.
• Amy graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Fine Arts Studies.
• His latest project, A Small Fortune, was selected for the National Screen Institutes Feature’s First program as well as The Harold Greenberg Fund’s Shorts to Features program.
• Julio C. Perez, IV lives and works in Los Angeles, editing in both narrative and documentary.

Since then he has been lucky to work on such diverse projects as The Daniels’ SWISS ARMY MAN, Denis Villeneuve’s ENEMY and Sundance hit JAMES WHITE. Nick Hector is a DGC, CCE, HotDocs and multi-Gemini Award winning film editor, story editor and consultant. He’s cut more than two-dozen feature and one hundred TV documentaries for filmmakers across the globe. Perhaps Nick’s best known work stems from his long creative relationships with legendary Canadian filmmakers Allan King, Yvan Patry, and Sturla Gunnarsson. With 2 films on Criterion, 3 Top Ten Canadian films, 5 films at MoMA, 10 at TIFF, and 15 at HotDocs, the first 30 years have been a lot of fun. Award winning editor Lisa Grootenboer is an industry staple with two plus decades of experience.

BAYLINE is her 2nd documentary short funded via the MTS STORIES FROM HOME Broadcaster. THE LEAGUE is her first documentary short, funded via mgm grand onion the NSI Aboriginal Documentary Program. The film is currently playing several festivals and aired with broadcaster APTN in fall of 2016.

He would go on to work steadily as an editor right up until his death in December 1999. “Kelly” Smith, CCE, was amongst the pioneers of electronic post production and widely known in the Toronto and L.A. His career began at CKNX-TV in Wingham, Ontario in the late 1960’s and flourished until his passing. Also premiering at TIFF was the feature documentary SILAS, executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way productions, which Chris came on board to complete. The documentary POPCORN AND MAPLE SYRUP that Chris co-edited for the CBC, won the Special Jury Award at Worldfest.

Originally from Quebec, she has worked on both French and English productions including television series, films and commercials. REEM MORSI – Reem Morsi had a career of professional scuba diving, human rights till becoming a writer/director. Morsi’s film credits include THEIR FEAST (Cannes Short Film Corner, TIFF, BBC, Cine Sud), NOSTALGIA (WIFT 2015), among others. Morsi received a scriptwriting grant for her feature film BOOTLEG, March 2016. Her short film BOOTLEG won best Canadian short in London and is also competing at other festivals. Morsi won first place for SHOW & TELL at the WIFT/BravoFact pitch competition 2016.

We’re currently experiencing a watershed moment for increased representation in storytelling. The editors behind I MAY DESTROY YOU, EUPHORIA, and #BLACKAF join us to discuss their groundbreaking work. The past year has brought our lives no shortage of fear-inducing moments, and yet films that offer us frights continue to be one of our greatest escapes. Action, comedy, drama, romance, horror and thriller – Jinmo Yang, ACE’s outstanding body of work covers almost every genre in filmmaking. His mastery of pacing and tone is often on display as he rides the line between genres, from the action/comedy of LUCK-KEY, to the thriller/comedy PARASITE.

In 2007 he was invited by Focal Press to write the Foreword for the second edition of The Technique of Film Editing, the book that had played such a central role in his life as an editor. He describes this as one of the proudest moments in his life along with receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the CCE. Alan Collins was born in India and grew up in the UK where he studied Drama and Film at Bristol University. He was inspired to become a film editor after viewing Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein and reading the bible of the edit room, The Technique of Film Editing (K. Reisz, G. Lambert) in 1967.

To qualify for the Telefilm Canada New Voices Award, candidates must have written at least two short films one of which has been produced, and have written one feature length screenplay, TV pilot or series treatment. They must not have previously produced a feature or TV series/pilot, nor received Telefilm Canada Funding. George cut many of Canada’s iconic series and feature films, from Adventures in Rainbow Country, Street Legal, and Cold Squad to Outrageous, The Silent Partner, Isabel, and many others.

Her work is broad-ranging, from intimate autobiographies to forays into Science Fiction. Anx (The Cave), an adaptation of a Tsilhqot’in story was named to Canada’s Top Ten Shorts by TIFF and was an Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival. My Legacy, her first feature documentary, focuses on the transformation and healing of intergenerational trauma to trust, worth, intimacy and love. Her work has aired on APTN, CBC, Knowledge, NITV (Australia) and has been showcased around the world at film festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam and Sundance. Michèle’ short documentary, The Barber of Augusta just recently won the Dodie Spittal Award at 2017 The Picture This Film Festival.

His latest project, A Small Fortune, was selected for the National Screen Institutes Feature’s First program as well as The Harold Greenberg Fund’s Shorts to Features program. The screenplay placed Top 5 out of 200 international scripts in Reddit’s 2016 Screenwriting competition and was a Semi-finalist in the 2016 Shore Scripts Feature Film category. Chris’ short films have screened throughout the world, including CLEO (TIFF, Cinema City), GOLDEN BOYS (HollyShorts, Inside Out, MiFO) and THE SISTERS TOLCHINSKI (Rhode Island International Film Festival). Chris recently completed a series of projects for TIFF as supervising picture editor.