Full Schedule
CCE Virtual Lounge
While in-person meetings may still be out of reach virtual spaces are in full swing. Our private virtual lounge features customizable avatars that allow you to move freely around the digital space and mingle face-to-face! You can even link your socials to keep in touch afterwards.
Drop-in anytime during the event to make the most of this unique experience. We’ll have music, games and much more! In the era of social distancing, consider it a virtual happy hour that extends over the event weekend!
Day 1
Saturday February 20, 2021
Welcome Address (10AM EST)
Featuring: D. Gillian Truster, CCE
Moderated by: Stephen Philipson, CCE
Sponsored by: IATSE 891
Working from home: has Covid-19 changed the collaboration dynamic forever, or are we just waiting to head back into the office? Stephen Philipson, CCE and D. Gillian Truster, CCE kick things off by sharing stories of rolling with the punches this past year, and reflecting on how the job of editing may or may not change when the pandemic finally ends.
Stephen is an award-winning editor of TV series such as Altered Carbon (Netflix), American Gods (Starz), Anne with an E (CBC/Netflix), and Hannibal (NBC), and films such as The Wild Hunt (by Alexandre Franchi), Grown Up Movie Star (by Adriana Maggs) and documentary Prom Night in Mississippi (starring Morgan Freeman), which premiered at Sundance, broadcast on HBO, and screened at The White House. Stephen is honoured to serve as CCE President and help the CCE advocate for editors across Canada.
Hailing from Toronto, Gillian began her career as an assistant editor. She has since had a diverse career editing drama series, feature films, and MOWs in a variety of genres, and the good fortune to work with many prominent and celebrated producers, directors, and screenwriters.
Gillian is best known for her work on Orphan Black, Anne with an E, and The Expanse. She has won two CSA awards, a DGC award, and has earned eleven award Nominations.
Keynote: Michelle Tesoro, ACE (10:55AM EST)
Featuring: Michelle Tesoro, ACE
Moderated by: Paul Day, CCE
Sponsored by: JAM Post
Michelle Tesoro, ACE is a master of drama, intrigue and suspense. From Fringe, to The Newsroom and The Queen’s Gambit Michelle’s work shows a range of storytelling techniques. Join Paul Day, CCE and Michelle Tesoro, ACE as they discuss Michelle’s work, including her most recent feat of editing an entire mini-series, The Queen’s Gambit.
Paul has been a picture editor for 25 years and has worked with such companies as Netflix, MGM, AMC, Showtime and many more. Some of his recently editing credits include Another Life, Ransom, Into the Badlands, Dark Matter and Lost Girl. He is one of the Canadian Cinema Editors’ co-founders and currently sits on the National Board for the Directors Guild of Canada.
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 “Newsroom.” She also cut features like Focus Features’ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography “On the Basis of Sex,” Participant Media’s “Shot Caller,” and SXSW’s Grand Jury Prize-winning film “Natural Selection,” which earned Tesoro the 2011 SXSW Award for Best Editing.
Breakout Rooms (12:30PM EST)
These limited-capacity panels are the VIP rooms of the conference. Hosted by post-production professionals these smaller capacity 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.
Adobe presents an interactive demo of Premiere Pro Productions for editors working independently, collaborating with a team, or needing remote editing workflows. Designed from the ground up with input from top filmmakers and Hollywood editorial teams, this suite provides new tools for managing projects, sharing assets between them, and keeping everything organized. Early versions of the underlying technology were battle-tested on recent films such as Mank, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Dolemite is My Name and Mank.
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.
The new workflows are already a challenge, but how do we deal with the mental and physical difficulties of working from home during a pandemic? Join a panel of IATSE 891 members to discuss keeping yourself motivated; mental & physical health (e.g. feeling low and what to do about it); communicating with your team, how to keep the lines open; changes to the editor / assistant relationship; scheduling challenges and managing your hours. Over the 2 days we will have various IATSE 891 editors and assistant editors joining the discussion: Daria Ellerman, CCE, Gordon Rempel, CCE, Mauri Bernstein, Sabrina Pitre, Rehan Khokhar, Gloria Mercer, Lianne Oelke and Kelvin Tseng. Moderated by Gary Lam.
The skills required of an assistant editor in animation are quite different from those working in live-action. There are no takes to log, nor dailies to process and sync. Instead 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.
The post production supervisor is often a mystery to many. What do they do, who are they and does every show need one? Join Nahid Islam for an intimate Q&A on the ins and outs of post production fundamentals, and the process behind the scenes.
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.
When TV Saved Us: The Shift to Home Viewing (2PM EST)
Featuring: Amy E. Duddleston, ACE; Wendy Hallam Martin, ACE, CCE;
Stephen O’Connell; and Laura Zempel
Moderated by: Christopher Donaldson, CCE
Sponsored by: Adobe
2020 has redefined the binge-watch; as the world settled into lockdown, TV entertainment went from distraction to lifeline. With a captive audience trying to make sense of world events, stories and characters matter more than ever before. As the entertainment landscape shifts to meet an unprecedented need for engaging content delivered on-demand to an audience stuck at home, how will this change the stories we tell, and the way we tell them? Join the editors of some of the most binge-worthy shows (Euphoria, VIDA, The Handmaid’s Tale and Normal People) as they reflect on how their show landed in this time and place, what the stories meant to audiences, and how that affected their work during this particular time in history.
Christopher Donaldson’s work as an editor spans an extensive variety of dramatic and documentary features and television. His credits include “The Handmaid’s Tale” for Hulu, “American Gods” for Starz, “Penny Dreadful” for Showtime/SkyAtlantic, Atom Egoyan’s “Remember”, Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”, “The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes To Town” for CBC, and”Slings & Arrows” for TMN/Showcase/Sundance Channel.
Amy E. Duddleston started as an Assistant Editor on films like MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, CORRINA, CORRINA and TO DIE FOR. She edited 20 features, including HIGH ART, LAUREL CANYON, ELEGY and Gus Van Sant’s remake of PSYCHO, and TV series such as DEXTER, THE KILLING, VIDA and most recently, HUNTERS. She is currently editing the limited series MARE OF EASTTOWN, starring Kate Winslet, for HBO. Amy graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Fine Arts Studies.
Multiple award-winning editor Wendy Hallam Martin is best known for her work on the Emmy and Golden Globe winning series, The Handmaid’s Tale. Wendy has received two Emmy nominations and won her first Emmy for the second season premier entitled “June.” She also won an ACE/Eddie award for the pilot, “Offred.” Her other work includes the critically acclaimed cable series American Gods, MGM’s spy thriller Condor which she edited and co-produced, Showtime’s The Tudors, The Borgias and Queer as Folk, to name a few. Wendy resides in Toronto, Canada with her husband and two children.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Stephen has been editing drama & documentary across Europe for 25 years. His work spans time with U2 on music promos and documentaries in the 1990’s to television dramas for BBC, RAI, Amazon, Netflix, Starz, CBC, HULU, SKY amongst others. Projects include The Name of The Rose, Howard’s End and Normal People, to feature films Viva, The Man Who Invented Christmas, and Maudie for which he won the CSA award for best editing in 2018.
Laura Zempel grew up in Sacramento, CA and received a BFA in Film Production from Chapman University. She began her career in Film and TV as an assistant editor on “Dexter,” and has gone on to edit HBO’s “Room 104,” “Euphoria,” and most recently AMC’s “Dispatches from Elsewhere.”
Day 2
Sunday February 21, 2021
Keynote: Jinmo Yang (10AM EST)
Featuring: Jinmo Yang
Moderated by: Sook-Yin Lee
Sponsored by: Boris FX
Action, comedy, drama, romance, horror and thriller Jinmo Yang’s outstanding body of work covers almost every genre in filmmaking. His mastery of pacing and tone is often on display as he rides the line between genres, from the action/comedy of Luck-Key to the thriller/comedy Parasite. Whether working on or off set Mr. Yang is truly a master of his art form. Multi talented moderator Sook-Yin Lee sits with Oscar nominated editor Jinmo Yang for an in-depth conversation about the craft of Picture Editing.
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. With Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho, Mr. Yang gained international acclaim and recognition including an Academy Award nomination for Best Editing, and an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic), the first non-English-language film to win this top prize.
Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian filmmaker, musician, actor, and multimedia artist. The award-winning radio and TV broadcaster starred in John Cameron Mitchell’s groundbreaking LGBTQ movie Shortbus which premiered at Cannes. Year of the Carnivore, Leeʼs feature film debut as writer-director, premiered at TIFF. Sook-Yin won the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by a Lead Dramatic Actress for her role as “Olivia Chow” in Jack.. Her movie, Octavio is Dead!, won Best Director and Best Picture awards at the Downtown LA Film Festival 2018. Her feature movie Death and Sickness streams on CBC Gem in Canada.
Thrills & Chills: Editing Dark Genre in Feature Film (11:25AM EST)
Featuring: Michele Conroy, Jeff Barnaby, and Dev Singh
Moderated by: Erin Deck, CCE
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. Join editors: Michele Conroy (In the Tall Grass, The Silence, Mama), Jeff Barnaby (Blood Quantum, Rhymes For Young Ghouls) & Dev Singh (Incident in a Ghostland, Backcountry) and moderator Erin Deck (Rabid) as they share their insights into crafting successful films that both entertain us and play upon our fears and anxieties.
Jeff Barnaby was born and raised on the rural Mi’gMaq reserve of Listuguj Quebec. A multi-disciplined artist, he has won several awards for his artwork, poetry, short stories, music and films. His work provides a bare-knuckled view of post-colonial Mi’gMaq life, defying stereotypical treatments of first nation’s narratives by using horror/sci-fi tropes to explore themes of violence, gender, race and indigenous futurism.
Michele Conroy is a veteran film and television editor. Her work has earned multiple DGC awards including: Mama, Pompeii and Splice, which was produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by longtime collaborator Vincenzo Natali. Other collaborations with Natali include the ensemble romance Paris, je t’aime, Nothing, Getting Gilliam, and most recently In the Tall Grass. Other theatrical releases include Little Italy, The Grizzlies, and Ginger Snaps: Unleashed. Her TV credits include Vikings, Penny Dreadful, Flashpoint, and This Is Wonderland.
Erin Deck is an editor in both film and television. Her work has earned her multiple nominations and awards through the DGC, CSA and CCE. Some of her TV credits include Altered Carbon, Into The Badlands, Ginny & Georgia and Killjoys. Her Film credits include Rabid, Our House, Big Sky, After The Ball and The Barrens.
I edit movies and television. I hold a BSc. in Biochemistry from Queen’s; attended Ryerson’s Film Studies program and was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre. I’ve been fortunate to work with many wonderful artists and it is a joy to count them amongst my friends and collaborators. My credits include the acclaimed: Backcountry, People of Earth, and Picture Day. In theatres and festivals soon: Cinema of Sleep, and Spiral. I’m currently working on the Resident Evil reboot.
Breakout Rooms (1PM EST)
These limited-capacity panels are the VIP rooms of the conference. Hosted by post-production professionals these smaller capacity 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 editor Ryan Morrison (Stowaway, Arctic) and assistant editor Russell Anderson (Mank) as they explore the challenges with remote editing workflows and how they have solved them in their recent projects.
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.
The new workflows are already a challenge, but how do we deal with the mental and physical difficulties of working from home during a pandemic? Join a panel of IATSE 891 members to discuss keeping yourself motivated; mental & physical health (e.g., feeling low and what to do about it); communicating with your team, how to keep the lines open; changes to the editor / assistant relationship; scheduling challenges and managing your hours. Over the 2 days we will have various IATSE 891 editors and assistant editors joining the discussion: Daria Ellerman, CCE, Gordon Rempel, CCE, Mauri Bernstein, Sabrina Pitre, Rehan Khokhar, Gloria Mercer, Lianne Oelke and Kelvin Tseng. Moderated by Gary Lam.
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. Let us discuss how we do this. Join the editor behind The Nature of Things episode The Covid Cruise for a conversation about filmmaking in the Covid era.
Join editors Adam Phipps and Francis Laliberte, as they discuss the post-process for AMPLIFY, a 13-part documentary series about Indigenous musicians creating new works. Each episode features a different songwriter working through the creative process in-studio, while revealing how they personally relate to their new song. Further insight is brought to bear as Indigenous experts weigh-in on the deeper meaning of the song’s inspiration. All of this … on FCPx … seriously!
Cool heads, quick wits and sharp technical knowledge are just some of what is needed to be a great Assistant Editor. They are the lifeblood of post-production and our guests are at the top of their game. Join the Assistant Editors behind some of Canada’s most anticipated films of 2020: Possessor, Percy, and Funny Boy, as they discuss their approaches, challenges and answer your questions.
Breaking the Mold in Series Television (2:30PM EST)
Featuring: Christine Armstrong; Shannon Baker Davis, ACE; Julio C. Perez IV, ACE; and Christian Sandino-Taylor
Moderated by: Shonna Foster, BIPOC TV and Film
We’re currently experiencing a watershed moment for increased representation in storytelling. This year we’ve seen a wealth of stories originating from the BIPOC, LGBTQ2S and female perspectives that not only tackle tough topics surrounding mental health, addiction, sexual assault and racial prejudice, but also present powerful aesthetic and editorial triumphs. The editors behind I May Destroy You, Euphoria, and #BlackAF join us to discuss their groundbreaking work.
Christine Armstrong is a picture editor splitting her time between Los Angeles and Toronto. She has edited a variety of feature films, television series, short films, web series and commercials. Armstrong’s recent work includes editing the series #BlackAF (Netflix), Barbelle (Amazon) and feature films Sugar Daddy, Mary Goes Round and The New Romantic which premiered at SXSW and won the Special Jury Recognition for Best First Feature. She is currently editing the series Rutherford Falls (NBCUniversal/Peacock) starring Ed Helms.
Shannon Baker Davis, ACE is an award-winning television and film editor. She began her career in unscripted television on iconic and Emmy-winning shows such as Top Chef and Project Runway. Her feature film credits include collaborations with directors Stella Meghie (The Weekend, The Photograph), and Ali LeRoi (The Obituary of Tunde Johnson). She has worked with creators Issa Rae (Insecure), Ava DuVernay (Queen Sugar), and Kenya Barris (Grown-ish,#BlackAF).
Shonna Foster is an award-winning director, storyteller, and producer. She received her B.F.A 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 long standing board member of BIPOC TV & Film.
Julio C. Perez, IV lives and works in Los Angeles, editing in both narrative and documentary. His feature film work includes Chad Hartigan’s award-winning This is Martin Bonner, which screened at Sundance, and an ongoing collaboration with director David Robert Mitchell, editing The Myth of the American Sleepover, It Follows, and Under the Silver Lake, which have all screened at Cannes. He has recently worked with director Sam Levinson on the series Euphoria, as well as the upcoming feature Malcolm and Marie.
Christian is a film editor, and occasional screenwriter. His career started in the writers room and as editor on the surreal comedy series CAMPUS. Recent work includes I MAY DESTROY YOU, SALLY4EVER, LOVE WEDDING REPEAT, and the upcoming FROM DEVIL’S BREATH, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga/The White Helmets). In 2018 he wrote and edited To Wendy Who Kicked Me When I Said I Love You , an offbeat, romantic short film which premiered at the London Film Festival.
Raffle (3:45PM EST)
It wouldn’t be EditCon without a good old fashioned giveaway! Your ticket to EditCon automatically puts you into the draw. This year we’re raffling off: three subscriptions to Boris FX Suite; one Resolve Editor Keyboard; one copy Davinci Resolve Studio; two one-year Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions and two one-year Associate Memberships to the CCE!
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