Editor Craig McKay, ACE Discusses editing the Documentary Babies with Bobbie O'Steen

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Craig McKay, ACE Discusses the Editing of "Babies." This video is from the Manhattan Edit Workshop presents "Inside the Cutting Room with Bobbie O'Steen" series.

Craig McKay, born in New York's Hudson Valley, is a feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing "Reds and 'The Silence of the Lambs", and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries "Holocaust', he has edited more than forty films including 'Philadelphia", "The Manchurian Candidate", "Cop Land" and "Maid in Manhattan".

About the moderator: Bobbie O’Steen is a New York-based writer and film historian, dedicated to sharing the editor’s invisible art with students, professionals, and the movie-going public. She is an Emmy-nominated film editor and the author of two acclaimed books about editing entitled "Cut to the Chase" and "The Invisible Cut." O’Steen is currently partnered with Manhattan Edit Workshop for her series “Inside the Cutting Room," and she also moderates panels for American Cinema Editors’ EditFest. To find out more information on her speaking events go to: http://www.bobbieosteen.com/.

“Babies”, also known as Baby(ies) and Bébé(s), is a 2010 French documentary film by Thomas Balmès that follows four humans through their first year after birth. Two of the babies featured in the film are from rural areas: Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, and Bayar(jargal) from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, and two are from urban areas: Mari from Tokyo, Japan, and Hattie from San Francisco, U.S. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features on 7 May 2010. The movie has grossed over a million dollars, entering at the box office at number ten.

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