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SIXEL, MARGARET

Margaret Sixel, ACE No birth date available. Margaret Sixel, ACE is best known as an editor on feature films (Happy Feet; Babe: Pig in the City). She won the Oscar and BAFTA in 2015 for Mad Max: Fury Road, which also won thirteen other Best Editing awards. Her work extends across numerous genres including fiction…

LORENZ, JULIANE

Juliane Lorenz Born 1957 Juliane Lorenz was nineteen when she was hired to assist Ila von Hasperg (*) on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette. Beginning with Despair, she edited most of Fassbinder’s films thereafter, including Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronica Voss and Querelle, which she finished after his death. When she was…

LINTON, AMY

Amy Linton, ACE Born 1955 Since 1989, Amy Carey Linton, ACE and PGA, has worked on dozens of documentaries, feature films, and music videos. She co-edited Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (with Joseph Burton) and continues to collaborate with Dash on projects for Showtime and PBS. Other credits include A.K.A. Doc Pomus, Jews and…

ADAIR, SANDRA

Sandra Adair, ACE Born 1952 Sandra Adair, ACE works in both documentary and narrative editing. At the start of her career, she often worked as assistant editor for her brother Robert Estrin on films such as Desert Hearts and Internal Affairs. Since 1993 she has edited all of Richard Linklater’s films, including Dazed and Confused,…

FRUCHTMAN, LISA

Lisa Fruchtman Born 1948 Lisa Fruchtman is a film and television editor and documentary director with twenty-five film credits. After interning with a documentary film group in the USA, Fruchtman spent a year developing her editing skills at the National Film Board of Canada and then returned to the states, where she began working as…

LAMPSON, MARY

Mary Lampson No birth date available. Mary Lampson is a documentary editor and filmmaker who edited Barbara Kopple’s classic Harlan County, USA, (with co-editors Nancy Baker, Mirra Bank and Lora Hays) and edited three films for Emile de Antonio (Millhouse, Painters Painting and Underground). Other films include Trouble the Water by Tia Lessin and Carl…

ATTIA, KAHÉNA

Kahéna Attia No birth date available. Kahéna Attia (sometimes also credited as Attia-Reveill) is a Tunisian editor who began her career as an assistant editor in 1971 and has twenty-five credits. Her first is for Ousmane Sembene’s Camp de Thiaroye; she also edited his Faat-Kine. Attia won best editing awards at the National Film Festival of…

COLLIN, FRANÇOISE

Françoise Collin Born 1937 Françoise Collin began working in 1961 as a co-editor (with Jean Ravel and Néna Baratier) of Chronique d’un été/Chronicle of a Summer, the landmark film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. Between then and 2006, she amassed thirty-two credits for both narratives and documentaries. Her collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard began in…

DECUGIS, CÉCILE

Cécile Decugis 1934 – 2017 After making two short films, Cécile Decugis became the assistant editor to Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte on Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. She then edited Godard’s Breathless and Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (co-edited with Claudine Bouché), putting her in the same company as Agnès Guillemot, who also edited films for both directors.…

ZONN, LIDIA

Lidia Zonn Born 1934 Lidia Zonn began working as a documentary film editor in 1960 and continued for the next fifty years. She worked with the most outstanding Polish filmmakers, including Krzysztof Kieślowski and Kazimierz Karabasz, who was her husband. From 1969-1980, Zonn edited more than a dozen documentaries for Kieślowski before he started mainly… Read More