LISA CHURGIN - Editor

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

Tv & Film, Filmlighting, Deakins, Movies, Filmmaking, Production, Film, Cinematography, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we’re joined by editor Lisa Churgin (PITCH PERFECT, HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, GATTACA) to discuss her career and the craft of editing. Lisa shares with us the moment she discovered filmmaking after leaving suburban New Jersey for New York City and how she survived bouncing between employment and unemployment before landing an editing gig on THE WARRIORS and working for director Woody Allen’s longtime editor Susan E. Morse. Lisa later laments the general loss of the dailies process and the opportunity for younger editors to listen to the crew talk out production problems. Later likening editing to sculpting, Lisa reflects on the role of an editor and her place in the greater filmmaking process. We worked with Lisa on HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG and DEAD MAN WALKING, and she shares how she and director Tim Robbins approached the construction of the latter. We also learn what the director-editor interview for a potential job is really about, and we bookend the episode heaping praise on dolly grips.

Recommended Viewing: HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, DEAD MAN WALKING

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation
0:15.6	will take us so listen in and see where it goes. This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a company with a global footprint spanning four continents.
0:28.0	Aperture is a driving force in LED cinema technology, renowned for their cutting edge lighting and
0:35.1	software solutions.
0:37.0	focused on enabling filmmakers to achieve their creative vision,
0:41.0	they've built a lighting ecosystem of over 20 different fixtures that can
0:45.8	be controlled wirelessly through their software platform, CITES Link. Today we're speaking with an editor. link.
0:55.0	Today we're speaking with an editor. Her credits include House of Sand and Fog,
0:58.0	Dead Man Walking,
1:00.0	Gadika and Peter Pan and Wendy.
1:02.0	We're happy to welcome Lisa Churgen. Lisa thank you for doing this.
1:06.0	Yeah, welcome. Thank you. You did forget the one credit which probably has more attention
1:12.3	which is pitch perfect.
1:14.0	I'm sorry.
1:18.0	It covers all generations, not just those deep dark dramas.
1:23.3	Yeah, right.
1:25.3	Right, okay.
1:27.3	How did you get to where you are today?
1:29.3	Were you rearranging events as a child, or did you go somewhere else first and then find this path?
1:36.2	What did you do?
1:37.2	I always say if Where's Waldo, that book had been around when I was a kid I would have been doing where's
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