This event took place on April 29, 2023.
Join us in Winnipeg on April 29th for our Offline Activity. We will be Axe Throwing!
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Offline Events Across Canada: Halifax
This event took place on April 28, 2023.
Join us in Halifax on April 28th for our Offline Activity. We will be bowling!
About the Event
April 2023
7pm ADT
Halifax
About the Event
April 2022
3pm PDT
Vancouver
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Offline Events Across Canada: Toronto
About the Event
April 2023
7PM ET
SPIN Toronto
About the Event
April 2023
6pm ET
Montréal
This event took place on April 15, 2023.
Presented in English / Atelier en anglais
Join the CCE for a unique mentorship event centered around one-on-one conversations with documentary & unscripted picture editors from across the country. From feature documentaries to reality television and unscripted series, you’ll get twelve uninterrupted minutes to chat with each of our participating mentors – any and all editing topics are on the table. This is your time to gain the specific insights you’ve been looking for. Stick around after the allotted time for virtual networking with all in attendance.
Participating Mentors:
Peter Denes is a Toronto-based Picture Editor with twenty years of experience cutting both documentary and scripted projects. His work has premiered at SXSW and Hot Docs, streamed on Amazon, Hulu, and Showtime, and aired on PBS, Vice, A&E, BBC, Nat Geo, History, Bravo and more. When not editing, he can be spotted on his bike, snacking on French pastries, and consuming all things Larry David and Daniel Johnston.
Jonathan has been in the industry since 2001, both in Australia and Canada. He has cut everything from documentaries, animation, sports news, but his extensive experience has been in cutting reality TV. He has worked on many of the large format shows such as BIG BROTHER, DRAG RACE CANADA, MASTERCHEF, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA and LOVE ISLAND He is a 17 time CSA and 16 time CCE nominated editor and has won five consecutive CSA’s and four CCE Awards.
Xi Feng is a Chinese-Canadian film editor based in Montreal. Having lived in China, Canada and France, she has cultivated a unique blend of cultural and artistic sensitivity. Feng has worked as an assistant editor and editor on several award winning documentaries, including CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival; and the CRYSTAL BEAR winning short film CLEBS, premiered at the 2020 Berlinale Generation 14 plus section. She’s also an editor alumna of CFC 2019 and Berlinale Talents 2020.
Through hard work and determination, Editor Jenypher Fisher has developed a unique style, rivalled only by a keen sense of story and humour. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the past 20 years Jenypher has been responsible for crafting a wide assortment of Canada’s unscripted series. Projects include PAMELA’S GARDEN OF EDEN, THE NATURE OF THINGS, RUST VALLEY RESTORERS, ICE PILOTS, THE BACHELOR CANADA, ER: LIFE & DEATH AT VGH, PARAMEDICS: LIFE ON THE LINE, JADE FEVER, WILD BEAR RESCUE, THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL, QUEEN OF THE OIL PATCH, YUKON GOLD & EXPECTING!
Carole Larsen is an award-winning documentary editor based in Toronto. Her work has a focus on our relationship with animals and the environment, from intimate portraits to broad-ranging discussions of our impact on the planet. Carole’s film and television work has been featured across Canada and around the world.
Mike has edited several award-winning feature documentaries, including STORIES WE TELL, for director Sarah Polley and THIS IS NOT A MOVIE for director Yung Chang. Most recently he completed TO KILL A TIGER for Nisha Pahuja, winner of the TIFF 2022 best Canadian feature award. Films that he has edited have played at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Telluride and Sundance, among other festivals, with 13 features accepted into TIFF. Sarah Polley’s STORIES WE TELL was short listed for the documentary Oscar as well as being voted in a TIFF poll as one of the 10 best Canadian films of all time.
Lindsay Ragone is a Toronto-based editor with over 20 years of experience. She’s been nominated twice at the Canadian Screen Awards for her work on CANADA’S DRAG RACE and was an Emmy-nominee for the Scripted/Reality hybrid series THE QUEST on Disney Plus. Other recent credits include BLOWN AWAY for Netflix and ALL-ROUND CHAMPION for BYU.
Eui Yong Zong is a Toronto-based editor whose credits include: OVER TIME, HACK YOUR AGE, I HOLD THE DECHO IN MY HEART, PROMISE ME, MERB’YS, SPIRIT TO SOAR, LIDO TV, and ONE OF OURS which won a Jury Prize for Best Canadian Feature at Hotdocs Film Festival in 2021 and a Canadian Cinema Editor Award (CCE) for Best Editing in a Feature Documentary. He’s recently completed a feature documentary CHOSEN, which premiered in JeonJu Intl Film Festival in South Korea. Yong holds a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from University of Toronto, and a MFA in Film Production at York University.
About the Event
April 2023
1:00pm -3:30pm ET
Virtual
This event took place on April 1, 2023
Presented in English / Atelier en anglais
Presented by Sunny Widerman of Personal Tax Advisors, this session is an entertaining and information-packed presentation about the financial and tax aspects of running your own business. Yes, we said entertaining! Hundreds of participants in dozens of workshops over the years can attest that you won’t be intimidated, and you definitely won’t be bored!
In this workshop, you’ll learn about deductible expenses, how to use RRSPs to protect your income, how CERB effects for your taxes and why doing what you love is great business. Take the opportunity to ask all your lingering tax questions during the Q&A from an expert who has been working in taxes since 2002. No judgement, just great advice and information with a sense of humour on the side.
About the Event
April 2023
12 - 2PM ET
Virtual
This event took place on March 25-26, 2023.
Presented in English / Atelier en anglais
This two-day course will cover not only the procedural and logistical aspects of Assistant Editing, but will also include a holistic overview of the politics and psychology of the editorial process and how it affects everyone in the cutting room. Insights gleaned from over 20 years of Assistant Editing experience will be shared liberally accompanied by many war stories to illustrate lessons learned the hard way. Newcomers and those with experience will both benefit from this course. Please note: this is not a course that teaches Avid, Premiere or any other NLE.
The following bio is only written in the presenting language.
Paul Whitehead has been a fixture in the Toronto Post Production community for over 30 years. He has worked as First Assistant Editor on over 50 film and television productions, and now edits episodic television and feature films. His career began at the dawn of non-linear editing technology, which allowed him to witness and contribute to its development over the years. Paul has taught others the art of assisting throughout his career both one on one and at the college level, and believes strongly that experience must be passed on to maintain the high standards that Canadian crews are known for.
About the Event
March 2023
9-5 ET
Virtual
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EditCon 2023
EditCon 2023 in Review
"Editing is like a passion ... Discovering a whole new world you are going to be in."
Arthur Tarnowski, ACE
Editor, DRUKEN BIRDS
The CCE just completed its 6th annual EditCon with three days of amazing panel talks, virtual breakout rooms, and networking for over two hundred attendees from Canada and around the world. And after two years of online EditCon we also ventured back in person and hosted events in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
Presented under the theme “Finding Meaning” we welcomed the editor from SCREAM 6 and WEDNESDAY for our keynote presentation, as well as editors and the sound teams from the binge-worthy shows STRANGER THINGS and HOUSE OF THE DRAGON.
Additional panels featured the editors from I LIKE MOVIES, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, VIKING, RICEBOY SLEEPS and BLACK ICE (films that were all on the TIFF TOP 10 list!) as well as GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE and BACK HOME.
For our in-person events we welcomed the editing team from FRAGGLE ROCK in Toronto, Women in Post in Vancouver and a Short Film Panel in Montreal.
It wouldn’t be EditCon without wrapping up the weekend with a good old-fashioned giveaway, thanks to prize donations from our generous sponsors. Afterwards, attendees mingled in a virtual networking world.
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Presented in English
Presented in French
Panels (Virtual)
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24TH
"I emotionally react to performances and I try to cut faster with my intuition than my thoughts."
Michelle Szemberg, CCE
Editor, ALL MY PUNY SORROWS
Behind the Cut with Jay Prychidny, CCE
Award-winning producer and editor Jay Prychidny, CCE will be joining us as the keynote speaker this year. Prychidny’s vast experience ranges from editing some of the most-watched reality television in this country, including AMAZING RACE CANADA. He has led the post-production on ORPHAN BLACK and recently edited the new WEDNESDAY series and forthcoming SCREAM 6. Jay will share insights about his editing process and lessons from his dynamic career in post-production.
Jay Prychidny, CCE is a multiple award-winning producer and editor, including back-to-back Canadian Screen Award wins in 2017 & 2018 for ORPHAN BLACK and THE AMAZING RACE CANADA. As a producer on ORPHAN BLACK, LOST & FOUND MUSIC STUDIOS, THE NEXT STEP and SNOWPIERCER, he supervised the editing, sound, music and VFX for every episode. His last project was editing all of the Tim Burton-directed episodes of the Netflix series WEDNESDAY, working with the iconic director on-location in Romania and the UK. He is currently editing SCREAM 6 for Paramount Pictures, which is his first feature film.
Cheryl has over 20 years of experience in cutting rooms worldwide. Her recent editing credits include episodes of Amazon’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, HBO’s THE NEVERS, Amazon’s HANNA, TNT’s SNOWPIERCER and THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS. Prior to this she was Additional Editor on Ron Howard’s SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY and Ridley Scott’s ALIEN: COVENANT and THE MARTIAN.
Cutting through the Noise
The arrangement of moving pictures is referred to as cinematic language. But it is the skillful combination of picture and sound that transports the audience into a story. Strong visual and audio storytelling immerses the viewer into a world where dragons fly through the sky in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. It makes our worst nightmares come true in the dreadful depths of the Upside Down in STRANGER THINGS. Stay tuned to hear about the latest from the sound designers and editors behind these phenomenal shows.
Paula Fairfield grew up in Nova Scotia and is an International and Emmy award winning sound designer for tv, film, commercials, and basically anything that makes noise. Her passion is high concept sound design and her main interest is working with visionary creators, which is clearly reflected in her resume and her background as an artist. Recent projects include MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM, WARRIOR NUN, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, THEM: COVENANT, THE NEVERS, LOST, GAME OF THRONES and most recently HOUSE OF THE DRAGON and RINGS OF POWER.
Craig Henighan is a Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer and Re Recording Mixer. He was nominated for a Best Sound Mixing Oscar in 2019 for ROMA and has won 6 Primetime Emmys for STRANGER THINGS and LOVE DEATH AND ROBOTS. Craig is from Mississauga, Ontario and holds a Media Arts Degree from Sheridan College. He is a member of Cinema Audio Society, Motion Picture Sound Editors and AMPAS. Credits include FREE GUY, BLACK SWAN, DEADPOOL, THE BATMAN, TROPIC THUNDER and THE WHALE.
Katie Halliday is a two time Emmy award winning sound editor for her contributions on the television show STRANGER THINGS. She is also a supervising sound editor, nominated this year for the first ever Children and Family Emmy Awards for her sound design and supervising work on HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA. Having started out in sound in Toronto, Canada, she has moved her way up quickly in the ranks of the Hollywood sound world. She has also worked with the likes of Guillermo del Toro, and won several craft awards in Canada before moving to Los Angeles.
Siân Fever is a First Assistant Editor, Assembly Editor and Previs Editor with over 15 years of experience in the screen industries. Her credits include THE CROWN, THE NEVERS, DUMBO, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT, TOMB RAIDER and WONDER WOMAN. Most recently she worked on HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Prior to the cutting room, Siân was an offline editor for broadcast, marketing and corporate content with a proven strength in music programming and multicam; before redirecting her focus toward scripted television and feature films. Siân founded the London branch of Blue Collar Post Collective, an accessible and focused grassroots non-profit organisation, supporting emerging talent in post-production, and has spoken about her work at screen guild events EditFilmFest and EditFest, National Careers Week and industry conferences IBC and NAB.
Sarah Taylor is a multi-award-winning editor with twenty years of experience. She has cut a wide range of documentaries, television programs, shorts, and feature films. Sarah strives to help shape unique stories from unheard voices. She is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) and hosts the editing podcast The Editor’s Cut and the mental health podcast Braaains. Sarah’s credits include FAST HORSE, JESSE JAMES, THE LAST BARON and THE LEBANESE BURGER MAFIA.
OUR VOICES, OUR STORIES
In a media landscape that favours rapid consumption and uniformity, Canadian cinema has become a vessel for diverse stories. RICEBOY SLEEPS portrays the struggles of immigration, while we embark on the search for the next stage of human evolution in CRIMES OF THE FUTURE. In VIKING, we find a reflection on the human condition in an attempt to explore Mars. Video rental nostalgia and adolescent cinephilia come together in the film I LIKE MOVIES. The editors from these riveting Canadian films will join us in a panel conversation.
Christopher Donaldson’s work encompasses a variety of dramatic and documentary features and television. His most current project, WOMEN TALKING, marks his second collaboration with filmmaker Sarah Polley. Their first was TAKE THIS WALTZ. Donaldson’s recent feature credits include David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE and Atom Egoyan’s REMEMBER. His television work includes THE HANDMAID’S TALE, REACHER, PENNY DREADFUL, THE KIDS IN THE HALL: DEATH COMES TO TOWN and SLINGS & ARROWS. His documentary credits include Kevin McMahon’s Waterlife, and Alan Zweig’s Mirror Trilogy, VINYL, I, CURMUDGEON and LOVEABLE.
Simone Smith, CCE is an award-winning editor. Previous film credits include FIRECRACKERS, NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL and I LIKE MOVIES which premiered at TIFF 2022. For television, Simone has worked on SURREAL ESTATES (SYFY), STRAYS (CBC) and the Amazon Original series THE LAKE.
Anthony was born in Seoul, South Korea and then immigrated to Vancouver, Canada with his family in the early 90s. He began his career as an actor after his mom enrolled him in a high school drama class and soon after he co-founded a theatre company in which he served as the artistic director while acting, producing, and directing its variety of projects. In 2019, Anthony made his first feature film, DAUGHTER, which was shot on a micro-budget with many of his friends and peers from his theatre days working both in front and behind the camera.
Sophie Leblond is a Montreal-based film editor. She graduated from Concordia University and has since edited over 40 films, including fiction and documentaries by André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Stéphane Lafleur , André-line Beauparlant, Kaveh Nabatian and Pedro Pires. She obtained a position as professor at l!Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in December 2019 where she teaches editing and is currently directing Lhasa, her first feature documentary.
Lara Johnston is a Toronto-based editor who has worked for such filmmakers as Patricia Rozema, Cary Fukunaga, and Brian De Palma. She recently edited episodes of the TV series THE CONSULTANT (MGM) and is currently working on the limited series FELLOW TRAVELERS (Freemantle/Showtime). She was nominated for a CSA for Patricia Rozema’s MOUTHPIECE, which premiered at TIFF in 2018, and won the CCE and DGC Feature Editing awards for that film. She holds a BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto and an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University.
SHAPING MEMORIES
Documentary has the power and versatility in exploring urgent social subject matters, yet it can also embrace an intimate first-person narrative, or even become an experimentation of cinematic craftsmanship. This year we are inviting the editors from three critically acclaimed Canadian documentaries. Whether it’s the sensory and cinematic collaboration between a filmmaker and a naturalist on Sable Island (GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE), the eye-opening testimony from the Coloured Hockey League about the untold history of racism in ice hockey (BLACK ICE) or the heart-wrenching revisit of her older brother’s death in BACK HOME, each of these films was made with powerful bravery and is sublime in its own way.
Eamonn is an editor, story editor and writer with 20 years of experience. Some recent career highlights include BLACK ICE which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at TIFF22. He also co-edited the 2022 Sundance Audience Award-winning film NAVALNY and was an additional editor on FIRE OF LOVE which won a Sundance Film Festival award for editing. In 2021 and 2022, Eamonn won a CCE award for the documentary series, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE and the critically acclaimed series FALLING FOR A KILLER. In 2019 Eamonn edited, ONCE WERE BROTHERS, the gala opening film for the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
Jacquelyn Mills is a filmmaker based in Montréal. Her works are immersive and sensorial, often exploring an intimate and healing connection to the natural world. Her award-winning documentary IN THE WAVES premiered at Visions du Réel. Her most recent work GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE premiered at the Berlinale Forum winning three awards, and has since garnered over a dozen awards internationally including Best Canadian Feature Film and Best Emerging Director at Hot Docs. Jacquelyn is a Sundance Alumni and an IDA Documentary Award nominee. She has also worked as editor, sound designer and cinematographer on many internationally acclaimed films.
Pablo Álvarez Mesa is a filmmaker, cinematographer and editor working mainly in the field of Non-fiction. His films have played at international film festivals including Berlinale, IFFR, Viennale, Visions du Reel, and Anthology Film Archives. Recently he worked as editor on GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE and as Cinematographer on FIRE OF LOVE and is currently a member of the selection committee for the Camden International Film Festival (Camden, Maine) and Associate Programmer for MidBo (Bogota, Colombia). Álvarez Mesa holds a BFA in Cinema at Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Film Production at Concordia University and is a member of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television.
Milena Salazar is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Vancouver, BC. Some of her recent editing credits include BACK HOME, VIOLET GAVE WILLINGLY, the NFB production HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN, and SUE SADA WAS HERE, which is in the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Alongside her editing work, Milena is currently directing her first feature documentary and works as a Programming Consultant for the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
Jenn Strom is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker, editor and animator. Her feature-editing work includes Nisha Platzer’s BACK HOME which premiere at VIFF, Erin Derham’s STUFFED, which premiered in the doc competition at SXSW, and Marie Clements’ musical documentary THE ROAD FORWARD which premiered at Hot Docs and received a Leo Award for Feature Documentary Editor. She is currently directing her first feature documentary, about the artist E.J. Hughes, for Knowledge Network.
Greg Ng, CCE, is a film and television editor based in Vancouver, B.C. and is a proud member of the Canadian Cinema Editors. Greg tries to maintain a balanced diet of both narrative and documentary editing, and periodically writes about himself in the third person. Some recent credits include TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES for the CW, BONES OF CROWS for CBC, and THE GRIZZLIE TRUTH, which won the Special Presentations Audience Award at VIFF 2022.
In Person Events
saturday february 25th
« Laisser les personnages vivre leurs émotions et leur donner l'espace nécessaire pour le faire. Ces personnages sont irrésistibles et nous voulions passer du temps avec eux. »
Melissa McCoy, ACE
Monteuse, TED LASSO
Montréal: Short Film Editing : The Third Rewrite
Short film has often been the testing ground for cutting-edge visions and cinematic expressions. From story to production, editing often results in the 3rd rewrite of the work. Join the prolific filmmakers and editors Miryam Charles, Myriam Magassouba (AU CRÉPUSCULE) and Aziz Zoromba, Omar Elhamy (SIMO), with moderator Xi Feng to chat about the editing journeys of these two films and some of their other signature work in the short from.
Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. Her films have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally. Her first feature film This House was presented at the Berlinale, the AFI film festival this year and was also included in the TIFF Top 10 of the year . She also launched the short film AT DUSK at the Locarno Film Festival. As a producer, she is currently working on the post-production of the series STILL I RISE.
After a MFA in Film Production at Concordia University, Myriam Magassouba wrote and directed LÀ OÙ JE SUIS, recipient of a dozen honours, including the Jutra Award for Best short film. In parallel with her directing work, she has edited several award-winning short films and documentaries. In 2021, she worked as an editor on the feature films ARSENAULT ET FILS by Rafaël Ouellet and PAS D’CHICANE DANS MA CABANE by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers. She is currently editing two documentaries (LE PLEIN POTENTIEL by Annie St-Pierre and FANTÔMES by Sophie Bédard-Marcotte), and the feature film LE DERNIER REPAS by Maryse Legagneur.
Aziz Zoromba is a Canadian writer & director of Egyptian origins. His works, documentaries and fiction, explore the themes of cultural identity, assimilation and intergenerational trauma. He is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim school of cinema and an alumni of the 2019 Sundance Ignite fellowship.
FARAWAY (2020), his first documentary short, has screened at over 30 film festivals around the world (Slamdance, Camerimage, RIDM). Aziz also co-produced the short documentary NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE (Carol Nguyen, 2019), winner of over 25 awards and selected by over 80 festivals including TIFF, SXSW & IDFA. His first fictional short film SIMO (2022), won the Best Canadian Short Film Award at TIFF, had its international premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and will have its European premiere at the 73rd Berlinale Generation.
Omar was born and raised in Egypt before settling in Montreal in 2012. He works as an editor and director, his work was shown at the likes of Berlinale, Rotterdam, Toronto, Sundance film festivals.
Xi Feng is a Chinese-Canadian film editor based in Montreal. Having lived in China, Canada and France, she has cultivated a unique blend of cultural and artistic sensitivity. Feng has worked as an assistant editor and editor on several award winning documentaries, including CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival; and the Crystal Bear winning short film CLEBS (HOUNDS), premiered at the 2020 Berlinale Generation 14 plus section. She’s also an editor alumna of CFC 2019 and Berlinale Talents 2020.
Toronto: Down at Fraggle Rock
An international hit in the 80s and beloved for many viewers to this day, FRAGGLE ROCK comes back more colorful, high-energy and furrier than before. Join Paul Winestock, CCE and Duncan Christie, CCE with Paul Ackerley where they’ll discuss their experiences and work process at the edit suite on this reboot for both the young and young at heart.
Paul Winestock is an editor whose credits cross various genres and include many shows of which he is proud… but few match the dream of working with the Henson Company; a lifelong dream that was made remarkable by the vast talent on the FRAGGLE ROCK team.
Duncan Christie is an award-winning editor with 25 years of experience. Starting out editing documentaries, moving into scripted comedy and eventually drama, he became quickly sought after for his understanding of storytelling, collaborative nature, sharp sense of rhythm and desire to always elevate the material.
Duncan’s work can be seen on networks all over the world and has garnered multiple awards and nominations including his recent Emmy nomination for editing Apple TV+’s FRAGGLE ROCK: BACK TO THE ROCK. He is also an accomplished musician, director, world traveller and master scuba diver. He currently resides in Toronto with his wife and son.
Paul Ackerley has been a Post Production Producer and Supervisor for longer than he cares to admit. His credits span a wide range of genres, from big-budget drama series to no-budget indie features. Working with the Jim Henson Company has been an absolute highlight.
When not supervising others at their craft Paul is a writer, photographer and voiceover artist. He’s also a recovering musician.
Vancouver: Women in Post
Join Daria Ellerman, CCE (Editor: VIRGIN RIVER), Buket Biles (Post Coordinator: SNOWPIERCER) and Lisa Pham Flowers (Assistant Editor: FIREFLY LANE) as they talk with moderator Nicole Ratcliffe, CCE about their work and bringing their voices of experience to the talk.
Buket is a Turkish-Canadian Post Coordinator & Post Supervisor with editing background for both sound and picture. After spending a few years working in post production in her hometown Istanbul, Turkey, she relocated to Vancouver in 2013 and she has since worked on a multitude of productions as an Assistant Editor, Post Coordinator and Post Supervisor. Outside of work, Buket is serving as a Board of Director at Vancouver Post Alliance and currently leading the Events committee. She has a passion for promoting engagement with our diverse local post community.
Daria is a versatile visual storyteller with over 2 decades of experience editing television series, MOWs, documentaries and feature films. Her credits include the feature films MEDITATION PARK and BIRDWATCHER, several MOWS and hundreds hours of episodic television. Daria’s versatility comes from the variety of projects she has been involved in across genres and platforms including 140 episodes of sitcom that included a live audience. Daria has been nominated for 10 Leo Awards, a Southhampton International Film Festival Award, a Gemini Award and a CCE Award as picture editor and won 5 Leo Awards for her work on the television series VIRGIN RIVER, MALIBU RESCUE, TAKE TWO and THE COLLECTOR.
Lisa Pham Flowers is a Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker, writer, & assistant editor. She studied film at Simon Fraser University and has over a decade of post production experience, assisting on network TV & Movies (FIREFLY LANE, LOUDERMILK, YOU ME HER, CHESAPEAKE SHORES, GONE MOM, DATE MY DAD and YUKON GOLD). Her indie editing work comprises a wide-range of narrative short films, music videos, and documentaries. Lisa is currently finishing her first co-directed feature, action-film/documentary hybrid JIMBO, and writing a collection of autobiographical short stories titled GLASS ATTIC.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Nicole graduated from the Foundation Film Program at the Vancouver Film School in 1997 and went straight into post production as an assistant editor for a local film production company. She began Editing on the Sci Fi drama Gene Roddenberry’s ANDROMEDA and has consistently worked in scripted drama on major US and Canadian television series and MOW’s such as ENDGAME, YOU ME HER, THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE SAN FRANCISCO, TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES, and most recently CREEPSHOW and season 5 of VIRGIN RIVER for Netflix.
Breakout Rooms (Virtual)
sunday february 26th
What is a breakout room?
These limited-capacity panels are the VIP rooms of the conference. Hosted by post-production professionals these rooms offer a more intimate space for discussion and questions on specific topics. Participants will have the opportunity to engage and ask questions. Each breakout room will hold two consecutive 30-minute sessions, so you won’t have to choose between favorites.
Join Anna Catley and Holden Mohring for a discussion on what it is like to make the transition from Assistant to Editor. What tips and tricks did they learn while assisting the editors on features and shows such as MOUTHPIECE, INFINITY POOL, DINO DANA and GHOSTWRITER? How did they balance being an Assistant Editor while also cutting their own projects, and what assisting elements did they bring with them into the edit suite for their recent editing on THRIVING: A DISSOCIATED REVERIE and JANE?
Cheryl has over 20 years of experience in cutting rooms worldwide. Her recent editing credits include episodes of Amazon’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, HBO’s THE NEVERS, Amazon’s HANNA, TNT’s SNOWPIERCER and THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS. Prior to this she was Additional Editor on Ron Howard’s SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY and Ridley Scott’s ALIEN: COVENANT and THE MARTIAN. Meet Cheryl in the Breakout Room to learn more about the projects she has worked on!
Award-winning producer and editor Jay Prychidny, CCE will be joining us as the keynote speaker this year. Prychidny’s vast experience ranges from editing some of the most-watched reality television in this country, including AMAZING RACE CANADA. He has led the post-production on ORPHAN BLACK and recently edited the new WEDNESDAY series and forthcoming SCREAM 6. Meet Jay in the Breakout Room with the questions you want answers to!
Simone Smith, CCE is an award-winning editor. Previous film credits include FIRECRACKERS, NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL and I LIKE MOVIES which premiered at TIFF 2022. For television, Simone has worked on SURREAL ESTATES (SYFY), STRAYS (CBC) and the Amazon Original series THE LAKE.
Meet Simone in the Breakout Room to discuss I LIKE MOVIES and other projects she has worked on!
Christopher Donaldson’s work encompasses a variety of dramatic and documentary features and television. His most current project, WOMEN TALKING, marks his second collaboration with filmmaker Sarah Polley. Donaldson’s recent feature credits include David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE and Atom Egoyan’s REMEMBER. Join Chris in the Breakout Room to ask your questions and find out more about what he is working on!
CCE EditCon Raffle
Congratulations to our raffle winners!
- 1 Blackmagic Design Editor Keyboard - Jane MacRae
- 1 copy of Davinci Resolve Studio - James Tracey
- 3 x 1 year subscription to Boris FX Suite - Tom Strand, Rachel Perone, Steven Patoine
- 2 x 1 year Adobe Creative Cloud subscription - Dariun Lung, Lily Makowski
- 2 x 1 year AVID Media Composer subscription - Lee Cochran, Sydney Cowper
- 2 x 1 year CCE Membership - Paula Schuabb, Victoria Cho
With Thanks to Our Sponsors
Thank you to our board & volunteers:
CCE EditCon Committee:
Mikaela Bodin
Xi Feng
Craig Macintosh
Stephen Philipson, CCE
Alejandro Tello
Adam van Boxmeer
Volunteer:
Jonathan Dowler, CCE
Jason Konoza
Sarah Taylor
James Tracey
Thank you to our CCE Staff:
CCE Operations Manager:
Alison Dowler
CCE Communications Specialist:
Samantha Ling
About EditCon
February 24-26, 2023
Online, Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver
This event took place on March 8, 2023
Presented in English / Atelier en anglais
Join us on March 8th for an in depth conversation with editor Avrïl Jacobson, CCE and Annie Jean, CCE as they discuss their work on crafting powerful documentary films celebrating two bold and visionary indigenous women in Ever Deadly and Mary Two-Axe Early.
This event will be moderated by Sophie Farkas-Bolla.
The following bios are only written in the presenting language.
Avrïl Jacobson, CCE is a Toronto-based editor, story editor and consultant. Feature film work includes Ever Deadly (TIFF 2022), Jaddoland (Independent Spirit Award 2020), The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (Hot Docs 2016), My Prairie Home (Sundance 2014), and Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John (Hot Docs 2016). In television, Avrïl’s work includes The Skin We’re In (CBC), BLK: An Origin Story (History Channel), In the Making (CBC Arts) and The Boyz II Men Effect, part of the hit Netflix series This Is Pop. In 2011, Avrïl received a Gemini Award for Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series.
Annie Jean made her debut in film in the late 80’s in Montreal. She started out as assistant editor, mainly in fiction, working on, among others, Léolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon and Mouvements du désir by Léa Pool. She also worked at sound editing on a number of films and on post-synchronization for Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal and as dialogue editor in Pierre Falardeau’s Octobre.
For a number of years she has been editor on a vast number of documentaries and fictions. Her recent work has been concentrated on independent documentary productions. Her films have been recognized in festivals, both abroad and in Canada.
Some of her most notable contributions are Grabrielle Roy by Léa Pool, Le Territoire du comédien by Jean-Claude Coulbois, The Phantom of the Operator by Caroline Martel, The other side of the country by Catherine Hébert, My Father’s Studio by Jennifer Alleyn, Alphée of the Stars by Hugo Latulippe, My Real Life, by Magnus Isacsson, Ziva Postec, the editor behind the film Shoah by Catherine Hébert and more recently, The Forbidden Reel by Ariel Nasr.
The films on which she worked have won over forty awards in various national and international film festivals. Annie has received two Genie Awards for her work on, What remains of us by Hugo Latulippe and François Prévost and also for La part d’ombre by Charles Gervais.
Over the years she has taught film editing in various institutions like L’Institut national du son et de l’image (INIS) in Montreal.
Sophie Farkas Bolla is a Montreal-based filmmaker who divides her time between writing, directing and editing. She first made a name for herself as an editor and stood out by editing films that travelled to festivals such as TIFF, Berlin and Hot Docs. She has been nominated for numerous Iris Awards and a Canadian Screen Award for her work on films such as Danae Elon’s P.S. Jerusalem (2018), Shannon Walsh’s The Gig is Up (2021) and Tracey Deer’s Beans (2021). She works in both fiction and documentary.
Alongside her editing career, Sophie is also a director. Her first feature film, Adventures in the Land of Asha, an adventure film for the whole family, will have it’s theatrical release in the province of Québec on July 21 2023.
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