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Tucked away in a cabin in the woods, Geoffrey Boulangé and Sophie Deraspe set about editing the award winning film, ANTIGONE. In this session Geoffrey Boulangé discusses the processes that went into editing the film; including cutting while shooting; working in FCPX, and co-editing with director Sophie Deraspe. In 1975 Ralph went freelance and focused on drama editing, amassing a large list of credits on over 50 television movies, 16 features, 13 mini-series and multiple TV series. His commitment to excellence in the craft of editing has earned him multiple nominations and awards over the years, including Best Sound and Best Picture Editing Awards the first year of the Geminis, and an Emmy nomination for Joan of Arc. He was promoted to Editor in Charge at age 27 and a year later to Assistant Supervising Editor in charge of the day to day running of the Film Department. He had the great pleasure of working with Glenn Gould on the soundtrack of the legendary documentary The Idea of North.

• He would go on to work steadily as an editor right up until his death in December 1999.
• Chris recently completed a series of projects for TIFF as supervising picture editor.
• Her feature film credits include collaborations with directors Stella Meghie (THE WEEKEND, THE PHOTOGRAPH), and Ali LeRoi (THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE JOHNSON).
• 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.
• Some of his recent editing credits include ANOTHER LIFE, RANSOM, INTO THE BADLANDS, DARK MATTER and LOST GIRL.
• He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Award for his work on Coraline (2010).

The 4th Annual CCE Awards Nominees & Winners

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. The skills required of an assistant editor in animation are quite different from those working in live-action. Instead mgm grand site darknet you are building shows, updating episodes and providing necessary materials and inspiration to artists. Animation editor Merissa Tse shares her wisdom and experience of what makes a good assistant editor in the field of animation. From FRINGE to THE NEWSROOM, Michelle’s work shows a range of storytelling techniques.

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

Paul Hunter (Nut Job, Spark) and Lesley Mackay Hunter (The Nut Job 2 – Nutty by Nature, Arctic Justice) shed light on their careers in animated film and television, and the unique role of the editor from storyboard to screen. Inbal and Cecilia Peck’s last collaboration was the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Brave Miss World, which debuted on Netflix in 2014. It is the story of an Israeli beauty queen, who was raped seven weeks prior to her winning the Miss World pageant, and her crusade to reach out to fellow survivors while trying to keep her own rapist behind bars. Every production starts with a solid plan but step by step as each phase inches closer and closer to being received by an editor’s invisible hand, that plan will unravel. Even if it is due to a global pandemic, it is on the editor to shift gears, to persevere for the story and aim to produce beyond what was undone. Join the editor behind THE NATURE OF THINGS episode “The Covid Cruise” for a conversation about filmmaking in the Covid era.

Isabelle Malenfant, CCE

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. Jinmo Yang is an award-winning South Korean film editor who has edited over a dozen feature films, including the international hits PARASITE, OKJA, and TRAIN TO BUSAN. The TSC is a two­ day event that gathers the best creative talent, authors and speakers in writing for film, TV and media in Canada and abroad. The Conference offers screen ­based industry professionals an advanced level of education and skills development unparalleled by any other screenwriting event in the country.

En discussion avec Myriam Poirier, CCE

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).

Chris Coulter

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.

Panel #4: Behind the Cut with Ron Sanders, 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.

Chris Mutton

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

DAY 1: Panels & Talks

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!

Award Nominees & Winners

As editors our jobs are constantly expanding, with more and more tools at our fingertips it’s important to keep our technical skills as sharp as can be. Editing and co-ordinating with VFX can be daunting at times, but it’s always important to get it right. 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). This panel, hosted by picture editor and sound editor Roderick Deogrades, will focus on the importance of mentorship and the editor/assistant relationship. This interactive discussion will cover topics like the importance of training, benefits of mentorship for both the assistant and the editor, paying it forward and building a network. George Appleby’s life was defined by love, success and adventure, all of which he shared freely with the people he met and worked with.

• 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.
• JJ NEEPIN – JJ Neepin is an independent, first nations filmmaker living in Winnipeg, Canada.
• 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.

This panel discussion focuses on their careers in indie film, their process in editing these films, getting a festival run, and what lies ahead. Some of her other credits include the series The Expanse, Houdini & Doyle, The L.A. Complex, and the feature films Seven in Heaven, for Blumhouse Productions, A Christmas Horror Story, for Copperheart Entertainment, and Compulsion, for Dimension Films. Cutting-edge picture editor Michelle Tesoro, ACE, is an industry rising star. Tesoro cut Netflix’s top-rated series THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, Emmy-nominated series WHEN THEY SEE US, GODLESS, HOUSE OF CARDS, and HBO’s series THE NEWSROOM.

Stephen Philipson, CCE

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.

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• This panel discussion focuses on their careers in indie film, their process in editing these films, getting a festival run, and what lies ahead.
• Her credits at Cinepix included Bill Fruet’s Death Weekend, Eddie Matalon’s Blackout, Ivan Reitman’s Meatballs, Larry Kent’s Yesterday and J.
• Stephen is honoured to serve as CCE President and help the CCE advocate for editors across Canada.
• He is a 2015 Canadian Film Centre alumni and since then has been cutting music videos, commercials and the highly anticipated PORCUPINE LAKE, which premiered this year at TIFF.
• Most recently she contributed to HBO’s Big Little Lies, and is currently working on Jean-Marc Vallée’s next HBO series Sharp Objects.

She spent 3 years as the resident editor at the Banff Centre for the Arts and is a graduate of the The Canadian Film Centre. Her credits at Cinepix included Bill Fruet’s Death Weekend, Eddie Matalon’s Blackout, Ivan Reitman’s Meatballs, Larry Kent’s Yesterday and J. The panel will examine the editor’s contribution in creating original, provocative and beautifully made television. Some prizes included a Hard Drive, Copies of Art of the Cut (Steve Hullfish the author was even in attendance to sign the copies!), a copy of Avid Media Composer and subscriptions to various Boris FX programs. EditCon 2019 took place on Saturday February 2, 2019 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.

Panel #2: Frame by Frame – A primer on Animation editing

As long-time editor for critically-acclaimed director Francis Leclerc, she worked on the popular sitcom Les beaux malaises, the dramatic series Marche à l’ombre, and Mon meilleur ami and the poetic short Trotteur, amongst others. Their latest collaboration, the feature film Pieds nus dans l’aube, is an adaptation of Félix Leclerc’s autobiographical novel of the same name. Over the years, she has also collaborated with directors François Jaros, Philippe Gagnon, Quentin Dupieux (a.k.a. Mr Oizo), Olivier Asselin and Mélanie Charbonneau.

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.

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A multi-disciplined artist, he has won several awards for his artwork, pœtry, short stories, music and films. His work provides a bare-knuckled view of post-colonial Mi’gMaq life, defying stereotypical treatments of First Nations’ narratives by using horror/sci-fi tropes to explore themes of violence, gender, race and Indigenous futurism. He hung around the University of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre, and its then director, Robert Gill, absorbing the world of theatre. But it was the editing suite that eventually took his interest after he landed his first job on the CBC series, The Forest Rangers, in the early 1960s.

Editing Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult with Inbal B. Lessner, ACE and Gillian McCarthy

• This panel, hosted by picture editor and sound editor Roderick Deogrades, will focus on the importance of mentorship and the editor/assistant relationship.
• In 2018 he wrote and edited TO WENDY WHO KICKED ME WHEN I SAID I LOVE YOU, an off- beat, romantic short film which premiered at the London Film Festival.
• Tesoro cut Netflix’s top-rated series THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, Emmy-nominated series WHEN THEY SEE US, GODLESS, HOUSE OF CARDS, and HBO’s series THE NEWSROOM.
• Morsi won first place for SHOW & TELL at the WIFT/BravoFact pitch competition 2016.
• His latest film, LUBA, won multiple awards at the Canadian Film Fest and earned him a CCE awards nomination.
• 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.

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.