Panel/Q&A/Interview

Join the British Film Editors for another VGOW, this time exploring the Apple TV series, Manhunt, with guest editors Damien Smith, Karollina Tuovinen and David Berman on the Wednesday, June 5 at 11:30am PT!

Tune in on Wednesday, June 5, to watch a Q&A with supervising sound editor Dody Dorn, ACE; sound designer Blake Leyh; cinematographer Mikael Salomon, ASC as they discuss their work on the special edition of the 1989 science fiction film The Abyss. After two smash hits in a row with The Terminator and Aliens, James Cameron took on The Abyss, a characteristically ambitious underwater thriller that became the first commercial disappointment of his career. A few years after the film's theatrical release, Cameron went back to the deep to both further develop characters and properly realize the film's VFX-filled conclusion. The resulting special edition is a visual and aural groundbreaker with its Oscar-winning special effects, Oscar-nominated cinematography, and Oscar-nominated sound that admirably remains grounded due to its marital drama played out powerfully by Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Expertly edited by Conrad Buff, ACE, Joel Goodman and Howard E. Smith, ACE, 35 years after its release, this once-maligned film stands tall in the master filmmaker's filmography. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, June 5 at 8PM ET/5PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

VGOW Blue Eye Samurai with guest editors Brad Lee Zimmerman, ACE BFE and Yuka Shirasuna BFE, hosted by Roberta Bononi BFE

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with editor Lisa Fruchtman, as she discusses her work on the epic war film Apocalypse Now. Ending his hot streak in the 1970s with one of the most enigmatic, mesmerizing, and audacious films ever produced, Francis Ford Coppola made his grandest statement with 1979’s Apocalypse Now. A film with a famously troubled production that rivals the finished product for wild drama, this Vietnam War-set descent into madness is a herculean feat of filmmaking, particularly on the part of its four-person team of editors: Lisa Fruchtman; Richard Marks, ACE; Gerald Greenberg, ACE; Walter Murch, ACE. This team cut together well over one million feet of film (230 hours) to form a hallucinatory, haunting vision of the hell of war that, 45 years later, has lost none of its horrifying impact. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Tuesday, June 25 at 8PM ET/5PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with writer/director Stephen Sommers and editor Bob Ducsay, ACE, as they discuss their work on the action-adventure film The Mummy. This 1999 reboot of Universal’s classic monster franchise is both a loving homage to the past and a thrilling leap forward in its use of cutting-edge visual effects. Writer/director Stephen Sommers has an obvious love for classic monster movies and serials as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark (itself an homage to classic serials) which shines through in every frame of this rip-roaring action film about an adventurer and a librarian who go up against an awakened ancient mummy in 1920s Egypt. Everything in The Mummyworks from the groundbreaking visual effects to the game performances of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz to frequent Sommers collaborator Bob Ducsay’s ace editing. Most importantly, though, The Mummy never forgets what it is at heart: a pure adrenaline-driven piece of entertainment with equal amounts of laughs and thrills. The Mummy’s long afterlife has been well-earned. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, July 8 at 7PM ET/4PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Calling all cinephiles! Join us on Thursday, July 18th at 7pm EST for an intimate Q&A with the post team behind The Bear. Bring your questions to this informal Q&A and learn about the post-production process behind this hit TV show. Made in NY, Post-Production by Senior Post based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, as he discusses his work on the 2018 supernatural horror film Hereditary. Ari Aster’s horrifically disturbing debut feature, Hereditary, is truly chilling, but more importantly, it’s a compelling, astute drama that vividly dissects a family’s cracked psychology. In the lead, Toni Collette gives a detailed, go-for-broke performance, and Alex Wolff goes toe-to-toe with her with as much intensity and confidence. And, as shot by Aster’s frequent cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, Hereditary is a visually luminous work that slowly builds dread and mystery through this inventive artist’s work. Edited by Jennifer Lame, ACE, and Lucian Johnston, Hereditary is one of the great family dramas/horror films of the past decade that announced the arrival of a provocative new voice in filmmaking and became a surprise box office hit. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, July 22 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**