If you’re an avid listener of podcasts, choosing to ingest some info and infotainment when you’re commuting, exercising, or just in a quiet moment around the house, check out these interesting editing and general filmmaking-related podcasts.
Editing Podcasts
Run by film and TV editor Joaquin Elizondo, the Hollywood Editing Mentor site and podcast is focused on giving practical advice to help aspiring editors navigate their careers in post-production.
Part of the Inside The Edit online training course by long-time Factual TV Editor Paddy Bird, Once Upon a Timeline looks at some of the more intangible areas and skills you’ll need to develop to advance your career in Post-Production. Many of the episodes are relatively short, focusing on a particular topic, while some feature extended interviews with a Post professional who talks about their experiences in, and getting to, the role they’re currently working.
Avid’s Matt Feury interviews a whos-who of Editors, Assistant Editors and other post professionals about their work on a range of Hollywood films and TV shows.
General Filmmaking Podcasts
These podcasts are not editing specific, but instead cover a broad range of filmmaking topics, interviewing Directors, Writers, Producers, Cinematographers, Composers and the like, as well as the occasional Editor.
Run by the Independent film website IndieWire, this interview-based podcast talks to a range of film creatives, both big name and lesser known, about their process and craft.
Originally called Fitness in Post, Optimize Yourself is run by Hollywood TV Editor Zack Arnold ACE, and focuses on managing your time, energy, and creativity in order to be productive and effective in your job, without burning yourself out leaving no time or energy for anything else.
Covering everything from micro-budget to big-budget studio films, The Filmmakers Podcast is an interview-based podcast looking at what you should and shouldn’t do while endeavouring to make your film.
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