Manhattan Edit Workshop recently welcomed award-winning film and television editor Simon Smith for an in-depth conversation on Talking MEWShop, MEW’s ongoing interview series spotlighting leading voices in professional film editing and post-production.
A Career Built Between Boom Cycles: How an Unscripted Editor Found His Way Into Prestige TV
In the early 1990s, before LinkedIn portfolios and Vimeo links, breaking into film and television post-production involved a kind of leap-of-faith persistence that now feels almost mythological. For editor Matthew Barbato, that leap began with a printed directory, a stack of paper résumés, and a willingness to mail them—one by one — to production companies that might not even exist anymore.