JUMP•CUT

Foreword

During our tenure as Directors of the American Cinema Editor’s Internship Program from 1994 to 2014, we set out to train incoming college graduates to become skilled assistant film editors. We placed them in editing rooms that spanned features, television, post production facilities and reality shows during the four-week course. Numerous students sought the internship, and since we only accepted two interns a year into the program, we felt compelled to try to help everyone else as well. We created a lecture series in which we presented all the same material the chosen interns would learn and to which all of the applicants were invited. This gave every hopeful applicant a unique chance to hear stories and bits of advice from editors ...