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IATSE Members Vote to Authorize a Strike With Over 98 Percent Support

Tens of thousands of members in the crew union voted over the weekend on whether to allow the organization’s leader to call a strike if deemed necessary. Thank you for voting! 

IATSE Strike Deadline Has Networks and Streamers Scrambling for Programming Options

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CAREER ACHIEVEMENT HONORS – 2021

[vc_row row_type=”row” type=”full_width” in_content_menu=”” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]LYNZEE KLINGMAN, ACE AND SIDNEY WOLINSKY, ACE TO RECEIVE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT HONORS FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO FILM EDITING FROM AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE)

Recognizing outstanding editing in film and television, the ACE Eddie Awards will announce nominations on March 11 and winners at their virtual awards ceremony on April 17 Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee Will Receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker Of The Year Award

LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2021– American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced today that film editors Lynzee Klingman, ACE and Sidney Wolinsky, ACE will receive Career Achievement Awards for their outstanding contributions to film editing at the 71st Annual ACE Eddie Awards on April 17. “Just look at their incredible bodies of work,” stated ACE president Kevin Tent, ACE. “Lynzee and Sidney have cut some of our favorite and most iconic movies and television shows. We’re thrilled to recognize these two extraordinary editors, their hard work and their amazing careers.” As previously announced, prolific filmmaker Spike Lee will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film. The ACE Eddie Awards will be held virtually this year due to the pandemic.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”normal” position=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” type=”full_width” in_content_menu=”” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]About Lynzee Klingman, ACE

As an editor, Lynzee Klingman, ACE worked on a wide array of features and documentaries including  “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “True Confessions,” “Hair,” “Baby Boom,” “A River runs Through It,” “Little Man Tate,” “War of the Roses,” “Matilda,” “Man on the Moon,” “Hearts and Minds,” and “Ali,” among others. “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” won a BAFTA Award for Best Film Editing and it garnered an ACE Eddie Award nomination and an Oscar® nomination. Lynzee received her second ACE Eddie Award nomination for “Man on the Moon.” She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison and she earned a degree in history from Columbia University. She learned editing as an apprentice on commercials and industrials, and eventually began cutting documentaries, one of which –“Hearts and Minds” —  won an Oscar for Best Documentary. She’s had the honor to serve as a Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as well as an AFS Representative for the State Department for both Egypt and Ecuador. She has served on the Faculty of USC, Art Center College of Design, and AFI.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]About Sidney Wolinsky, ACE

Sidney Wollinsky, ACE attended Brandeis University near Boston and was a self-confessed “film nut” in college.  Taking his love of film to the next level, Wollinsky set his sights on film school and attended San Francisco State University.  He worked his way through the ranks in Hollywood as an assistant editor, an additional editor and eventually editing his first solo film “My Tutor.”  His professional editing career spans five decades and includes notable shows such as “House of Cards,” “The Man in the High Castle,” “Ray Donovan,” “The Sopranos” – where he received an ACE Eddie Award – “Boardwalk Empire” – where he took home an Emmy in 2010 – among many others.  Wolinsky’s accomplished career not only spans TV but also includes multiple films, most notably the 2018 Best Picture Oscar® winner, “The Shape of Water” – which garnered Wollinsky an Oscar®, BAFTA and ACE Eddie nomination for his work. He most recently co-edited “Greyhound,” currently streaming on AppleTV+.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” type=”full_width” in_content_menu=”” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_separator type=”normal” position=”center”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1615417726457{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Past recipients of the ACE Career Achievement Award include Alan Heim, ACE, Tina Hirsch, ACE, Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE, Janet Ashikaga, ACE, Craig Mckay, ACE, Jerrold L. Ludwig, ACE, Mark Goldblatt, ACE, Leon Ortiz-Gil, ACE, among many others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

BEST PRACTICES – WORK FROM HOME GUIDE

INTRODUCTION

Until 2020, a minority of professional editors and assistant editors were consistently working from home. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the closure of studios and traditional office spaces, editing from home became mandatory for an increasing number of professional editors and assistant editors. The need to work from home hastened the development of technologies associated with remote editing and also created a new paradigm for editors, pushing to the foreground a variety of work-from-home issues for which there were no clear guidance.

American Cinema Editors, recognizing the need for editors and assistant editors to have guidance related to work-from-home issues, conducted a survey of its members in October 2020. The purpose of the survey was to gain a better understanding of the extent to which its members were working from home, what methods and technologies were being used, how editors were being compensated and/or reimbursed for the use of their home office space and equipment; and other issues of central importance to editors with regard to working from home.

The ability to work from home is here to stay and the goal of American Cinema Editors is to help ensure that editors’ rights and responsibilities are respected and that they are compensated fairly. Therefore, the purpose of this guide is to help educate editors and assistant editors regarding financial considerations related to working from home and set forth recommendations for producers, productions companies and studios on how to compensate editors and assistant editors for the use of their home office and equipment.

OPEN  WORK FROM HOME GUIDE
March, 2021

Paul Hirsch Interview – Coup 53

Join us LIVE

Saturday, February 20th Feb 2021
3:00 PM PST, 6:00 PM EST,  11:00 PM GMT

Oscar-winning editor, PAUL HIRSCH
(Star Wars, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mission: Impossible)
in a live conversation with Oscar-winning  editor, WALTER MURCH
(Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient)

Spike Lee to Be Honored by ACE

The ‘Da 5 Bloods’ helmer will receive ACE’s Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year award.  Hollywood Reporter

Honorary society American Cinema Editors will recognize multihyphenate Spike Lee with its Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year award, April 18 during the 71st ACE Eddie Awards, which will likely be a virtual event.”Spike’s an artist who has entertained, enlightened and challenged us. But he’s not only a prolific director, he’s been a friend, producer and guidance counselor to countless young and emerging filmmakers,” said ACE president Kevin Tent in a released statement. “His generosity is an inspiration to us all. For these reasons and more, we at ACE recognize his enormous impact on the industry and are proud to present him with this much deserved award.”As a director, producer and writer, Lee’s films include his latest, Da 5 BloodsBlacKkKlansman, for which he won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay; and Do the Right Thing, which earned him an Oscar nomination for its screenplay.

The recipient of a 2015 Honorary Oscar, Lee’s features also include Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever and Malcolm X. His body of work includes documentaries, such as Academy Award nominated 4 Little Girls and Peabody and Emmy-winning When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts; as well as music videos (Michael Jackson) and commercials (Air Jordan ads for Nike).

He’s a tenured Professor of film and artistic director at his alma mater, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.