Australian Screen Editors Guild presents award winners, accreditations + Lifetime Membership

The Australian Screen Editors Guild announced their 2012 Award winners, new accreditations and a Lifetime Membership at the seventh annual ASE Awards over the weekend at Notes in Newtown, Sydney.

Warmly nicknamed ‘The Ellies’ due to the bronze elephant statues awarded to winners, the Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in editing across all visual mediums.

Says Jason Ballantine, ASE Guild president: “This has been a brilliant year. I think we can all be proud of our association. The ASE further expanded its national presence and is now active in five States. We continued to increase membership numbers, staged outstanding events and forums, offered free training to Members, broadened The Ellies’ Award categories and strengthened our partnerships with other Guilds. It’s an incredible achievement given everyone on the Executive and State committees volunteers their time around their ‘day jobs’, which often become ‘night jobs’ too. I thank every single person involved.”

Winners:

Digistor Award for Best Editing, Open Content

Event Zero – Episode 4, Julian Harvey

AFTRS Award for Best Editing in a Short Film

The Wilding, Anthony Cox

Autodesk Award for Best Editing in a Music Video

‘Bird on the Buffalo’ – Angus Stone, Peter Barton

EFilm Award for Best Editing in a Commercial

Volkswagen Tiguan – ‘Cross Country’, Drew Thompson

ASE Videocraft Award for Best Editing in Television Factual

Go Back To Where You Came From – Series 2, Episode 1, Orly Danon

Digital Pictures Award for Best Editing in a Television Drama

The Slap – Episode 1 ‘Hector’, Mark Atkin ASE TwoDogs.

TV Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Series

Australian Story – ‘Streets with No Names’, Steven Baras-Miller

Adobe Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Program

A Law Unto Himself, Andrea Lang

ASE Blue Post Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature

Paul Kelly – Stories of Me, Sally Fryer

ASE Avid Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film

Burning Man, Martin Connor

New accreditations announced:

Accreditation is the highest honour the Guild can bestow on a member whose body of work is considered to exhibit a consistently high standard and who has successfully demonstrated their ability to champion the role of Editor in the wider screen industry. This year the ASE inducted the following editors to their highly esteemed list of ASE Accredited Members:

Sally Fryer ASE

Sally Fryer grew up in the UK where she worked principally for Channel 4 and the BBC. After moving to Sydney in 1998 she worked for the ABC, SBS, Hilton-Cordell, Beyond and Shark Island Production companies. Director Ian Darling and Fryer have worked together for the last 10 years, completing eight films together with another two in the making. These highly successful projects have included the award-winning Alone Across Australia, The Oasis, which received the 2008 AFI Best Editing Award, In The Company of Actors and this year’s ASE Award-winning Paul Kelly –  Stories Of Me.

Lawrence Silvestrin ASE

Lawrence Silvestrin has been working in film and television post-production for over 30 years. Silvestrin originally moved from Perth to Sydney to work at the ABC as a sound editor before shifting into documentary picture editing. He moved back to Perth in 1991 just as the industry there was beginning to take off and in the past 20 years later he’s worked on three features, 13 drama series, 10 shorts and 40 documentary films and series. He has been nominated for four AFI and AACTA Awards for his work on Playing the Game, The Black Road, Cracking the Colour Code and Leaky Boat. For the past ten years he has also been a lecturer and facilitator at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, sharing his wisdom with keen young editors who want to work in the industry.

Roberta Horslie ASE receives Lifetime Membership

Lifetime Memberships are presented by the Australian Screen Editors Guild to people who have made a contribution to the screen industry that has positively impacted its editors.

Lifetime membership is rarely given and is always a sign of great respect and appreciation from the editing community of Australia. This year Horslie was presented with a Lifetime Membership for her passionate commitment to the profession and the Guild. In 1994 she had been running her successful post production company The Cutting Room in Melbourne for seven years when she became the first Victorian chairperson to the Guild where she remained an active member for many years.

An award-winning and highly respected editor in the industry, Horslie has always been generous with her skills and knowledge, offering training and mentoring to many young and aspiring editors, and sharing her passion for the craft via lectures, discussions, seminars and panels for educational intuitions and industry bodies.

Henry Dangar ASE, who was last year’s ASE Lifetime Membership recipient, presented the honorary Membership to Horslie, highlighting her contribution to the ASE and the Victorian post production community.

Says Dangar: “Roberta is not only a generous soul and a fine editor, but a strong advocate for editors and their rights. The ASE Victorian Committee and membership would not be as strong as it is today had it not been for Roberta’s unrelenting passion and commitment to the Guild.”

(Pictured L-R: Julian Harvey, Mark Atkin, Peter Barton, Andrea Lang, Lawrence Silvestrin ASE, Roberta Horslie ASE, Orly Danon, Steven Baras-Miller, Martin Connor).

For more Information about the Australian Screen Editors Guild, please visit their website.