There is no doubt that the editing of film has become a major craft and that editors are being churned out of film schools and 'media' studies like sausages - but where will they all go to earn a crust? we are constantly asked to read cv's from young people who are looking for work - but we tend to stick to the teams we already have, or have worked with in the past. The opportunities available to newcomers are small. I feel so sorry for them - years ago, when I was lucky enough to start work in a cutting room it was hard enough to get one's foot in the door, but now it's 1000 times harder. But, as I tell students, if they have the passion and the guts and the patience, they will, eventually, make it.
For the record: I have just finished editing a new feature called DECAMERON: ANGELS & VIRGINS for producers Martha & Dino di Laurentiis. I'll not be talking much about that in this bog, since there is a confidentiality clause built in and I might even want to work with them again! I don't know when the film is released. I am off to the Campus 2006 at the Berlin Film Festival and will report from there.