Meet Up & Coming Editors Cut+Run’s Jorge Sandoval and Work Editorial’s Chris O’Brien

Cut+Run’s Jorge Sandoval, Work Editorial’s Chris O’Brien, and other industry creatives speak with Little Black Book about their editing careers thus far.

LBB> How did you first get into editing?
Jorge> I didn’t discover film and editing until I was in my twenties. Finding my passion came to me through trial and error – discovering things I knew I enjoyed, then later ticking off the things I knew I didn’t want to keep pursuing. I first attended Long Beach City College, where I immersed myself in the world of fine art, taking classes like life drawing, graphic design, and sculpture.

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LBB> How did you first get into editing?
Chris> I never thought that working in film was ever a reality growing up, and I really had no desire to get into filmmaking until I started attending a brand new public school in my hometown (shout out Upper Coomera) which offered Film and TV as a subject in high school. As part of the curriculum, we had to write, shoot, and edit all of our own films and it was during those couple years that I really took to the editing side of things. Personally, I need time and space to think, and the run-n-gun nature of filming is not where I thrive. We were allowed to stay after hours to edit our little films in peace and it felt a million times more natural to me.

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