American Cinema Editors (ACE)

The American Cinema Editors (ACE,) which was established in 1950, is an honorary group of professional picture editors. Large components of the group are education and furthering the art and science of editing.

As mentioned above, education is a focus of the group. Two of the programs that they employ are internships and a visiting editors program. The internship program allows for 6 weeks of intense learning. Each intern has the opportunity to learn from and work with panels and ACE members who mentor the intern. This program helps further the causes of education and the ACE itself. They also host an editing competition for students. Winning a contest like this would not only garner a prize, but also more importantly, potentially start a career in editing.

The visiting editors program from ACE connects ACE editors and schools. If a school that teaches editing wants to have come and talk, ACE can arrange it. These ACE editors can do some demonstration, put together a presentation, do Q&A and many other things. This outreach also promotes the association.

This group is prestigious amongst the film community members. If you watch the credits of a feature film or episodic television, you may see member of these types of groups. Have you ever seen ACE, CSA, MPSE, BSC or ASC? These are professional groups present in film and TV.

I’ve been slowly working on getting into this association. It’s a long process and it takes patience. I’ve received my invitation to their annual EDDIE awards, the precursor to the Academy Awards. The awards votes come from the membership of ACE. This group is not a union. The Motion Picture Editors Guild is the group that operates as a union. They likely have some of the same membership, both having different causes and purposes.


http://ace-filmeditors.org/about-2/education/
http://ace-filmeditors.org/about-2/http://ace-filmeditors.org/about-2/ace-intern-program/