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Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

Date
Feb 10th 2019
With
Susan Korda
“Good editing is like good sex,” affirms editor and director Susan Korda (The Darkest Days). “You create an expectation in your audience – and then you fulfil it.” Tracing finished film scenes from Bonnie and Clyde and Jaws back to the initial “Oh, shit!” experience in the editing room, Korda reveals how the magic of brave editing can create a gratifying cinematic experience from what initially appears to be a collection of mistakes. Sharing tools learnt from Walter Murch and Michael Rabiger, Susan demystifies the editing room and demonstrates how to “kill your darlings,” the critical ability to surrender preconceived preferences. Yelling “Cut!” never felt so good.

Susan Korda

Susan Korda edited the Academy Award-nominated “For all Mankind” and the Teddy Award-winning “Trembling before G-d". In 2021, she received an Ariel Award for the award-sweeping feature "Sin señas particulares". Susan was story consultant on “First Cousin Once Removed”, which won at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2012 and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2014. Her directing credits include “Vienna is Different", “One of Us” and the short “Salomea’s Nose".

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