The 5th Annual CCE Awards

Award Nominees & Winners

Jamie Ebata  & Dan Lee – The Day My Butt Went Psycho: Episode 23 *WINNER*

Robert Ciasnocha, Brian Berger & John Logan – Mike The Knight: Episode H051

Stephanie Duncan & Marc Brenzil – Trucktown: Episode 10

Luke Sargent – Indigo

Kurt Skyers & Jason Cohen – Little Charmers: Episode 10

Ricardo Acosta, CCE – Marmato *WINNER*

Ricardo Acosta, CCE – 15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story

Manfred Becker, CCE – Before the Last Curtain Falls

Nick Hector, CCE – Monsoon

Haya Waseem – Stay Aubrey!

Adam Locke-Norton – Entangled *WINNER*

Matthew Anas – Iris

Diane Brunjes – Happy 1 Year

Maureen Grant – Still

John Nicholls – The Last Halloween

Jonathan Dowler, Al Manson, Kyle Martin, Ben O’Neil & Steve Taylor – The Amazing Race Canada: Episode 205 *WINNER*

Rob Chandler  – Surviving Evil: Episode 211

Simon Marcroft – Income Property: Episode 119

Ian McBain – 16×9: Season 7, Episode 2

Mark Westberg – Income Property: Episode 128

James Bredin, CCE – Schitt’s Creek: Don’t Worry It’s His Sister *WINNER*

Matthew Hannam, CCE – Sensitive Skin: Episode 106 *WINNER*

Trevor Ambrose – Schitt’s Creek: The Cabin

Tony Kent – Sports on Fire: Terrolympics

Nicholas Wong – Degrassi: Finally Part 2

Geoff Ashenhurst – Whatever, Linda- No Boys Allowed *WINNER*

Graham Chisholm & Stephen Roque – Whatever, Linda: Oh Henry

Paul Skinner – Whatever, Linda: Tis’ but a Scratch

Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux – SOS: Episode 4

Thom Smalley, Anthony Baird, & Lawrence Jackman – Guidestones: Sunflower Noir, Episode 1

Christopher Donaldson, CCE – Penny Dreadful: Episode105, Closer Than Sisters *WINNER*

Lisa Binkley, CCE – Motive: Episode 206, Bad Blonde

Lisa Grootenboer, CCE – X Company: Episode 101, Pilot

Mike Lee, CCE – Remedy: Episode 201, Our Friend, Chaos

Gillian Truster, CCE – Orphan Black: Governed As It Were By Chance

Matthew Hannam, CCE – James White *WINNER*

Adam Locke-Norton – Mountain Men

Aaron Marshall – The Calling

Dev Singh – Backcountry

Jorge Weisz – Wet Bum

Ashlee Bishop – Cosmo (Sheridan College)

Brad Wickman – Passion of the Poster (Humber College)

Emerson Chan – Hang Up (Sheridan College)

Glenn McGarry – Anemone (Sheridan College)

Yasmeen Tayara – The Repeal (Humber College)

Wendy Hallam Martin, CCE – The Handmaid’s Tale: Mayday

Ana Yavari – The Handmaid’s Tale: Witness

Carina Baccanale – Les Pays d’en haut: #37

Christopher Donaldson, CCE – The Handmaid’s Tale: Night

D. Gillian Truster, CCE – Anne with an E: A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good

Amélie Labrèche, Myriam Verreault & Sophie Leblond – Kuessipan *WINNER*

Carina Baccanale & Cedric Coussy – Jouliks

Isabelle Malenfant, CCE – Fabuleuses

Véronique Barbe, CCE & Aisling Chin-Yee – The Rest of Us

Yvann Thibaudeau – Target Number One

Jacob DoForno – Happy Endings (Humber College)

Dylan Lattimer – Fragility (University of Toronto)

Margaret MacDougall – Her Shadow (Sheridan College)

Neena Malebennur from – In Focus (Humber College)

Mitch Theriault – Battles and Brotherhood (Sheridan College)

Alan Collins was born in India and grew up in the UK where he studied Drama and Film at Bristol University. He was inspired to become a film editor after viewing Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein and reading the bible of the edit room, The Technique of Film Editing (K. Reisz, G. Lambert) in 1967.

He became a fan of Roger Corman’s movies, particularly The Pit and the Pendulum and The Wild Angels and sent the director reviews he had written of these movies in the university newspaper while a film student. He was later hired by Corman as an Assistant Editor on the World War 1 feature Von Richthofen and Brown  filmed at Ardmore Studios near Dublin, Ireland in 1973.

Corman invited him to Hollywood, where he was promoted to co-editor of Von Richthofen and Brown and edited 3 more features for New World Pictures. While in Los Angeles he edited I Escaped from Devil’s Island starring Jim Brown.

Alan moved to Toronto in 1975 where he edited The Clown Murders, starring John Candy, and Love at First Sight, starring Dan Aykroyd, which received a Best Editing Award from the newly formed Canadian Film Editors guild in 1977. Collins then edited David Cronenberg’s The Brood, which later became a cult classic.

In 1987 Alan was series editor on the original Degrassi High series directed by Kit Hood. 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.

Alan firmly believes that editing is a tradition handed down from one generation to the next; his main influences being David Lean, Thelma Schumacher (Goodfellas) and Walter Murch (The Conversation).

In 2006 he moved to Halifax and began working as a producer. In 2007 he was invited by Focal Press to write the Foreword for the second edition of The Technique of Film Editing, the book that had played such a central role in his life as an editor. He describes this as one of the proudest moments in his life along with receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the CCE.

In 2015 Collins produced his  first feature, Relative Happiness, based on the best-selling novel by Nova Scotia author Lesley Crewe. He has also directed and edited two documentaries, Drowning in Colour: The Art of Wayne Boucher (2013) and Terminal: A day in the life of the Dartmouth Bridge Terminal (2014).

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