Learn how to shoot for the editor from the director and editor’s perspective. The audience will have the opportunity to view dailies then the final editing of a scene.
Leander Sales, Film Editor
Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, Do the Right Thing
Leander Sales, Editor/Director, has worked with Spike Lee on nine of
his feature films in the editing department. He started as an
apprentice sound editor on School Daze and worked his way up to become
associate editor on Clockers and Girl 6, then as editor on Get on the
Bus. He also edited a HBO episode of Hookers at the Point, 5 Years
Later directed by Brent Owens.
As a director, Leander won first place in the Black Filmmakers Hall of
Fame film festival of Oakland, California for his feature film Don’t
Let Your Meat Loaf (1995).
Currently Leander is editing the second feature film he also directed,
The Life I Meant to Live. Leander also taught film editing at NC School
of the Arts School of Filmmaking for nine years.
Russell Williams, Production Sound Mixer
Training Day, The Negotiator,
Waiting to Exhale, Jungle Fever, Boomerang and many others.
Russell Williams, Sound Mixer, won Academy Awards for Best Sound for
Glory (1990), and Dances with Wolves (1991). He also received two Emmy
Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Dramatic Miniseries or a
Special for Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
(1988) and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Movie
for 12 Angry Men. Currently Russell is writing a book to help producers, actors and
directors better understand sound and he is also teaching sound design
at his alma mater, The American University.
Kimberly McCord Wilson, Dialogue Editor
Kimberly McCord Wilson is a very talented Dialogue Editor who has
worked on such films as: The Shaggy Dog, The Lake House, You, Me and
Dupree, Invincible, Black Snake Moan, Underdog, Fred Claus and College
Road Trip.
Currently Kimberly is the Dialogue Supervisor on Beverly Hills
Chihuahua starring the voices of Drew Barrymore, Salma Hayek, Andy
Garcia, Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marin and Jamie Lee Curtis as Aunt Viv.
Johnny Williams, Cinematographer