In Conversation with Ricardo Acosta, CCE – Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

Ricardo Acosta, CCE  is a film editor, script consultant and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Canadian Cinema Editors. Acosta moved to Canada in 1993 from his native Cuba where he studied and worked at the world-renowned Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC). He has been an Alumni and Adviser of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Editing Lab, and the Music Composition and Sound Design Lab. A few of his editing and story consulting credits include: ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA (2020), THE LETTER (2019), THE SILENCE OF OTHERS(2018), winner of GOYA, ALMA, and the Berlinale Panorama Documentary Audience Award, SEMBENE! (2015), and MARMATO (2014). His films have premiered at Sundance, Cannes, Berlinale and IDFA, among other world film festivals. He is an Emmy winner and nominee for the Canadian Industry Genie and Gemini Awards, Canadian Film Editors Association Awards and Canadian Screen Awards. 

Nick Hector, CCE, BFE is a Canadian Screen, HotDocs, Canadian Cinema Editors, Directors Guild of Canada, and Gemini Award-winning film editor of more than 150 films and programs. His work has been included in the Criterion Collection and screened at most major international festivals, including the Berlinale, Sundance, and TIFF. Nick is an Associate Professor of film production at the University of Windsor. His scholarly research explores the relationship between the craft process and artistic outcomes in documentary film editing. Nick holds a Master of Arts in Media Education and a Doctorate in Fine Art.