Deadline: August 31st
The invisible stars of the Australian screen industry are the powerhouse storytellers who sit in the cutting rooms,internationally renowned editors such as Lee Smith, who cut Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster Inception with additional editing by fellow Australian John Lee, legendary Oscar-nominated editor Jill Bilcock ASE (editor for the likes of Sam Mendes, Baz Lurhmann, Fred Schepsi and Shekhar Kapur), and Gillian Armstrong’s go-to-guy Nicholas Beauman ASE, along with rising stars such as Roland Gallois ASE, who cut the enormously successful Samson and Delilah and Luke Doolan (Animal Kingdom) whose own short film Miracle Fish was nominated at the 2010 Academy Awards.
There are also countless exceptional editors working in television, documentary, music videos, commercials and short film. Along with those editors working in feature film their talents and contributions to our screen industry are celebrated by the Australian Screen Editor’s Guild (ASE). As Australia’s only cultural, professional and educational organisation dedicated to the pursuit and recognition of excellence in editing and post-production, the ASE endeavours to make the ‘invisible’ art of editing visible to the world.
The high point of the Guild’s year is the annual ASE Awards that recognise outstanding achievements in editing across all visual mediums. The Awards are a chance for the industry and the public to be enticed to look once more at those productions whose storytelling is so expertly crafted that they have been nominated for Best Editing Awards. In 2010 the ASE is calling for entries in the following categories:
- Avid Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film
- The Lab Award for Best Editing in a Television Drama
- Best Editing in a Documentary
- Best Editing in Television Non-Drama
- Best Editing in a Commercial
- Best Editing in a Music Video
- Best Editing in a Short Film
Editors entering the awards must be Full Financial Members of the Australian Screen Editors Guild.
New applications for Full Membership (or Full Membership renewals) may accompany an ASE Awards entry.
All entries must have had their first public screening, broadcast or video/DVD release between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010. For entry forms and full terms and conditions please click here.