Paul Rogers is an LA-based editor best known for his astonishing work on the breakout hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once. His wild resume also includes The Eric Andre Show, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, The Death of Dick Long, Dream Corp LLC, and a number of great music videos notably including DJ Snake & Lil Jon’s extremely viral “Turn Down For What”, Haim ft A$ap Ferg’s “My Song 5” and Lauv ft. Julia Michaels “There’s No Way.” He, along with his partners at Parallax Post, co-edited Sampha’s beautiful album film “Process” as well as “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story.” (As we get into later, who from Parallax worked on what is not entirely clear for me and I’m going off IMDB and I know there’s way more than what’s listed there so my apologies if any of that isn’t fully correct but it’s an interesting story to stay tuned).

Paul Rogers is an LA-based editor best known for his astonishing work on the breakout hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once. His wild resume also includes The Eric Andre Show, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, The Death of Dick Long, Dream Corp LLC, and a number of great music videos notably including DJ Snake & Lil Jon’s extremely viral “Turn Down For What”, Haim ft A$ap Ferg’s “My Song 5” and Lauv ft. Julia Michaels “There’s No Way.” He, along with his partners at Parallax Post, co-edited Sampha’s beautiful album film “Process” as well as “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story.” (As we get into later, who from Parallax worked on what is not entirely clear for me and I’m going off IMDB and I know there’s way more than what’s listed there so my apologies if any of that isn’t fully correct but it’s an interesting story to stay tuned).

Andre “Dre” Jones is a Los Angeles-based editor with a flair for dynamic, stylish music videos, commercials and films. Notably among these is “Pop Star” by DJ Khaled ft. Drake (which was nominated for a VMA video of the year), Rosalia’s “A Palé,” Rosalia and The Weekend’s “La Fama,” Ariana Grande’s “34+35,” Summer Walker, Cardi B and SZA’s “No Love,’ and Bella Poarch’s viral video for “Build a B.”

Aaron I. Butler, ACE is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary editor best known for his work on the second season of HBO’s wildly popular TV show Euphoria. He’s responsible for the most intense hour of television I’ve seen in a very long time, Season 2 Episode 5 “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird,” also known as the Rue running for her life episode. He’s also previously cut Kanye’s “Jesus is King” Imax film, the films JT Leroy and I Am Michael, a number of documentaries including HBO’s Cries From Syria and then there’s the juicy stuff, Laguna Beach and Taxi Cab Confessions.

Eileen Meyer and Aaron Wickenden are two outstanding editors who have collaborated on three major documentaries: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, Television Event and Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal. They’re also prolific individually: Eileen previously co-edited the Oscar-nominated/Sundance Audience award winning doc, Crip Camp, and cut on the Netflix doc series The Devil Next Door; while Aaron has also cut or collaborated on such very notable docs as Becoming, Feels Good Man, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Finding Vivian Maier and a personal favorite of mine: Won’t You Be My Neighbor. Together, they’ve been nominated for this year’s CinemaEye Honors award for best editing.

Evan Schrodek is a Los Angeles-based TV, film and documentary editor best known for his work on the zombie-apocalypse smash hit The Walking Dead. After assisting on season four he moved up to editor on season five and continued cutting for seasons six, eight and nine. He also recently edited the thriller series Panic and he’s soon to be known even more for his work on the upcoming Resident Evil series on Netflix.

Jake Burghart is a prolific editor, cinematographer and director known for his work at VICE media over the past 15 years. As one of the company’s first video hires during its transition from free magazine to behemoth news and entertainment network, Jake set the look and tone of the videos as both camera person and editor.

He got his first big break in the early 2000s shooting and editing the Against Me! documentary, "We're Never Going Home," then after joining Vice cut The Vice Guide to Travel DVD, True Norwegian Black Metal, The Vice Guide to Congo, and his own surfing shows High Shredability and School of Surf. He spent many years as Cinematographer for the Emmy Award-Winning show VICE on HBO. Our interview took place in Fall of 2020 after he’d recently completed directing, shooting and co-editing The Vice Guide to Iran and was working on a new mid-pandemic news show, Shelter in Place, with Shane Smith.

Stephanie Filo is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning editor best known for her work on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show and Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 69, among many many others. Now based in Los Angeles but having grown up in Colorado and Sierra Leone, Stephanie also cuts many social impact docs, including her own PSA “End Ebola Now” which was viewed widely, spawning dance videos from celebrities to bring awareness, and helped lead to the eradication of Ebola in Sierra Leone. She’s also cut specials like Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, following Kim K as she works to help incarcerated people be released from prison, and finally, Separated, a short doc for which she won an Emmy, about ICE deportations and their effects on families.

Jason Goldwatch is a Los Angeles-based Director and Editor best known for his music videos for some of hip hop’s finest rappers. A brief collection would include Nas, Jay-Z, Kid Kudi, Common, Schoolboy Q, Pusha T, Alchemist, Evidence, Conway the Machine, Atmosphere, The Roots, Action Bronson and Kool Keith. In this episode we trace his career, from making Beastie Boys tribute videos in high school to being the youngest signee to Spike Jonze’s production company to starting his own company and record label to now returning to being a one-man show, culminating in his recent album length video for Atmosphere, The Day Before Halloween.

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen is the Oscar-nominated [edit: Winning!] editor of Sound of Metal and a recent BAFTA and Critics Choice winner for Best Editing. He’s a Copenhagen-based feature and commercial editor, previously known for his work on Beasts of No Nation, Madame Bovary and A Royal Affair. He’s repped in NY and LA by Rock Paper Scissors.

Kimmy Dubé is a Los Angeles-based commercial editor, known for her comedic and action spots. After starting out as an intern at Lost Planet in NY she rose the ranks to become a rostered editor, cutting excellent work like AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" campaign with SNL's Beck Bennet (very few commercials make me laugh like those do) and eventually departed for Cosmo Street in Los Angeles, where she now works. Her wonderful sense of humor has garnered her many friends and fans in the industry and her distinctive voice has landed her a number of voice-over roles as well.

Episode 1 kicks us off with Colby Parker Jr., ACE, a Los Angeles-based feature editor known for his fast-paced, high-adrenaline work on most Pete Berg directed films including Friday Night Lights, Deepwater Horizon, The Kingdom, Patriot’s Day, Battleship, Mile 22, Hancock and the pilots for the HBO shows Ballers and the Leftovers. Colby was also recently brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as co-editor of Ant-Man. And, as you can see from the title, is a distinguished member of the American Cinema Editors, which we discuss in pt 2.

Episode 1 kicks us off with Colby Parker Jr., ACE, a Los Angeles-based feature editor known for his fast-paced, high-adrenaline work on most Pete Berg directed films including Friday Night Lights, Deepwater Horizon, The Kingdom, Patriot’s Day, Battleship, Mile 22, Hancock and the pilots for the HBO shows Ballers and the Leftovers. Colby was also recently brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as co-editor of Ant-Man. And, as you can see from the title, is a distinguished member of the American Cinema Editors, which we discuss in pt 2.

A brief introduction to Season One of Cutting Class. Coming Soon!