Out on Location Editing Into the Wild

Editor Jay Cassidy on the Technical and Creative Challenges in a 17-Month Edit

Jay Cassidy A.C.E. has been editing director Sean Penn’s films since The Indian Runner in 1991. He’s also well known (and awarded) for his editing of An Inconvenient Truth (with Daniel Swietlik). Other notable films he’s edited recently include The Assassination of Richard Nixon, September 11 (the USA section), and The Replacement Killers. Since Into the Wild, he edited Johnny Got His Gun.

Read how Entity FX created a flash flood at night from a daytime desert shoot, combined a crane and helicopter shot into one seamless shot, and more for Into the Wild.

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