Books, Guilds, Films, and More
This is an eclectic list which I will update as I discover new sources of information and interest. Feel free to email me resources you've found helpful.
Academies and Institutes
 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - www.oscars.org
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310/278-8990
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - www.emmys.com
5220 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
818/754-2800
Helms student award, grants, and an internship program and provides member screenings, forums, and topical events through out the year. Publishes Emmy Magazine which has articles on all types of filmmakers in Hollywood as well as on ATAS business and is available free at the Web site.
AFI (American Film Institute) - www.afionline.org
2021 Western Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90027
323/856-7600
Most Hollywood professionals have done at least one AFI project because they wanted to help the director or add new skills. AFI is a great place to get cutting room knowledge, a credit, and contacts no matter how much or little experience you have. The AFI offers a graduate program in editing and holds screenings, classes, and events year round.
Digital Editing Books
The Avid Handbook, Techniques for the Avid Media Composer and Avid - Bayes, Steve.
Xpress, Third Edition - Brenneis, Lisa - Boston, MA: Focal Press, 2000.
Final Cut Pro HD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide - Peach Pit Press, 2004.
Brenneis keeps up with every major software version by updating her book, as do other editing software writers.
The Digital Fact Book Edition 10 - Pank, Bob - Newbury, UK. , Quantel, 2000.
A reference booklet for broadcast TV and Post Production. Go to Quantel’s Web site www.quantel.com for a free snail mail or downloadable copy.
Video Editing with Avid: Media Composer, Symphony - Shufflebottom, Roger - Xpress. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 2001.
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Editors on Editing
Some Cutting Remarks - Ralph Winters, Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Cut to the Chase Forty-Five Years of Editing America's Favorite Movies - Sam O’Steen as told to Bobbie O’Steen, Michael Wiese Productions, 2002.
Selected Takes, Film Editors on Editing - LoBrutto, Vincent - Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1991.
Sound-On-Film - LoBrutto, Vincent, Interviews with Creators of Film Sound. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1995.
Transitions: Voices on the Craft of Digital Editing - Dvision Press, 2003.
Astute advice authored by 15 current Hollywood editors about the art of editing. Starts with the first cut and cover a multitude of topics including the changing face of editing today, cutting animation, and cutting for television.
In the Blink of An Eye, A Perspective on Film Editing, Second Edition - Murch, Walter LA, CA: Silman-James Press, 2001.
Digital Non Linear Editing: Editing Film and Video on the Desktop, Second Edition - Ohanian, Thomas A. - Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1998.
First Cut, Conversations with Film Editors - Oldham, Gabriella - Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
When the Shooting Stops…the Cutting Begins - Rosenblum, Ralph and Robert Karen - 1979, reprinted 1989, NY, NY: Da Capo Press, 1989.
Nonlinear 4, a Field Guide to Digital Video and Film Editing, Fourth Edition - Rubin, Michael. Gainesville, FL: Triad Publishing Co, 2001.
Grammar of the Edit - Thompson, Roy - Boston: MA. Focal Press, 1993.
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Film Editing
 16mm Film Cutting - Burder, John - Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1997.
Film Technology in Post Production - Case, Dominic - Oxford, UK: Focal Press, 1997.
On Film Editing, An Introduction to the Art of Film Construction - Dmytryk, Edward - Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1990.
The Film Editing Room Handbook, How to Manage the Near Chaos of the Cutting Room, Third Edition - Hollyn, Norman. . LA, CA: Lone Eagle, 1999.
Getting a Film Grant
www.fromtheheartproductions.com
Film grants, workshops, and consultations offered by Carole Dean, a successful filmmaker who thrives on helping low budget and independent filmmakers realize their movies.
Shaking the Money Tree How to Get Grants and Donations for Film and Video: 2nd Edition by Morrie Warshawski. A no-fail approach written by a consummate fund raiser.
Getting a Job
Breaking and Entering: Land your First Job in Film Production - Fitzsimmons, April and Gale A. Hurd. LA, CA: Lone Eagle, 1997.
www.editorsnet.com
Go here for job postings, interviews with editors on current features and other projects as well info on the biz, productions, products, and technology. Free sign up gets you daily industry updates in your email basket.
www.film-connection.com
International career service that offers course and helps place aspiring filmmakers. Lots of links to other film sites.
www.mixonline.com/
Mix site with Sound Mix related services, products, magazines, tech tips, jobs, and more.
Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter
These two daily, glossy rags have been providing info on Hollywood and its players, products, and happenings for eons. Each week, on different designated days, they print films and television shows in production. They also have a job section.
Pacific Coast Studio Directory
This monthly booklet lists producers, production companies, studios, postproduction houses, and much more in LA and the West. A good job and film services resource it's also produced as a poster and hung in many a post house.
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Guilds. Organizations, and Unions
A.C.E. American Cinema Editors, an honorary society of editors that also runs a student internship program.
www.ace-filmeditors.org
AFF (Asian Film Foundation)
LA based organization dedicated to maintaining a Web site of information and news articles, hosting screenings festivals to promote Asian filmmakers, and preserving Asian films. www.asianfilm.org
Cinewomen
A nuts and bolts organization located in LA and NY dedicated to helping its members progress in their profession. www.cinewomen.org
IDA (International Documentary Association)
This non-profit organization supports the doc maker with seminars and a newsletter on funding, filmmaking processes and holds screenings, an awards ceremony, and events honoring docs and their makers. Membership is open to all and has a sliding scale. www.documentary.org
IFP (Independent Feature Production)
A national organization currently in six cities that supports indies with seminars, knowledge, newsletter, and a place to network. It holds the annual Spirit Award in LA to honor independent work which has gained in prestige over the years. www.ifp.org
Motion Picture and Videotape Editors Guild
IATSE Local 700 for the U.S. Site has topical news and articles.
www.editorsguild.com
NABET - National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians
Locals in all major cities 1-800-882-9174 - www.nabet.com F (Women in Film)
A world wide, non-profit organization of professional filmmakers which runs a mentoring program, funds scholarships and productions, holds seminars and award shows to recognize women’s accomplishments. www.wif.org
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History and Theory
 Film Sound: Theory and Practice - Belton, John and Elizabeth Weis, Editors, by J Columbia University, Press, 1985.
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen - Chion, Michael , Columbia University Press, 1994. Translated from French, a leading film scholar sounds off about the movie soundtrack.
Seeing Through Movies - Crispin, Mark - Editor. , NY, NY: Pantheon, 1990. A collection of thought provoking essays.
Film and Video Editing - Crittenden, Roger - London, UK: Chapman and Hall, 1995.
The Cutting Edge: The Story of Cinema Editing
A 2004 documentary executive produced by Hollywood editor Alan Heim, edited by Tim Tobin, produced by ACE and UCLA, and directed by Wendy Apple, a UCLA film professor. It is the definitive movie on how films are edited and how editing and the role of the editor has evolved since the beginning of film, told by Academy Award winning editors and directors Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarentino, among many other industry luminaries.
The Technique of Film and Video Editing, History, Theory, and Practice, Third Edition - Dancyger, Ken. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 2002.
A Short History of the Movies Eight Edition - Mast, Gerald - , Essex: UK, Pearson Longman, 2002.
Technique of Film Editing, Second Edition - Millar, Gavin and Karel Reisz. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1995.
Magazines
Filmmaker Magazine - 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1714, NY, NY 10017 - Quarterly mag for independent production.
www.filmmakermagazine.com/
Millimeter Magazine - Overland Park, Kansas - "The Professional Resource for Production and Post."
www.millimeter.com
Release Print - Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth St. #101 SF, CA 94103 - Aimed at low budget, film and video makers
www.filmarts.org
Videomaker - Go to this link to get your free first issue of this glossary array of products and product reviews for digital video shooting and editing.
www1.videomaker.com
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Music Editing
Music Editing for Motion Pictures - Lustig, Milton. , Fern Park: FL, Hastings House Publishers, 1980.
Post Production
Post Production for TV and Film, Managing the Process - Clark, Barbara and Susan J. Spohr. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 2002.
Sound Editing
Sound Theory/Sound Practice - Altman, Rick, ed. , NY, NY: Routledge, 1992.
Audio Post Production in Video and Film - Amyes, Tim, Elsevier Science and Technology Books, NY, NY: 1998.
Sound for Picture: An Inside Look at Audio Production for Film and Television - Forlenza, Jeff and Terri Stone, eds., . Emeryville, CA: MixBooks, 1993.
The Art of the Sound Effects Editor - Kerner, Marvin M. Boston: MA. Focal Press, 1990.
Post-Production Terms & Concepts - Schneider, Arthur Electronic , Focal Press, 1990.
Sound for Film and Television - Tomlinson, Holman. Boston: MA. Focal Press, 2001.
Video Editing
A Postproduction Primer, Fourth Edition - Browne, Steven. Video Editing,. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 2002.
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