Ahsoka

10/23/23 • 48 min

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Editors – Dana E. Glauberman ACE, James D. Wilcox ACE and Rosanne Tan ACE

AHSOKA editors Dana E. Glauberman ACE, James D. Wilcox ACE and Rosanne Tan ACE worked together for the very first time to help bring to life the story of Anakin Skywalker's former apprentice. Although none of the three describe themselves as experts on the Star Wars universe, it's their gifts as storytellers that led Dave Filoni to trust them with his latest entry in the saga.

Set after the fall of the Empire, AHSOKA follows the former Jedi knight, Ahsoka Tano, as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

DANA E. GLAUBERMAN ACE

When she's not lending her editorial talents to the Star Wars universe, Dana is cutting films like GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, CREED II, UP IN THE AIR and JUNO. AHSOKA marks Dana's third tour of duty for Lucasfilm, having been part of the editorial crew for THE MANDALORIAN - S1 and THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT.

JAMES D. WILCOX ACE

A frequent collaborator with director Ron Howard, James cut Howard's adaptation of the book HILLBILLY ELEGY as well as his documentary THIRTEEN LIVES. Unlike most feature editors who started their journey in post as an assistant, James actually started out as a full-time editor working in news and sports. This is James' third appearance on The Rough Cut.

ROSANNE TAN ACE

Like Dana, Rosanne Tan ACE makes her 4th appearance on The Rough Cut! Prior to AHSOKA, Rosanne was making her mark with another Disney studio, cutting Marvel's HAWKEYE and THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER. Before her tour of duty with Disney, Rosanne was editing tv shows that featured action, intrigue and high drama; notably MR. ROBOT and HOMECOMING.

Editing Ahsoka

In our discussion with the AHSOKA editors, we talk about:

Cribbing Kurosawa's Kagemusha
Representing the audience in the cutting room
Pressing pause on Pittsburgh in VFX meetings
Dialing up Dune for the sound design
Ahsoka Tano and the Shawshank Redemption

The Credits

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Editor Dana E. Glauberman ACE on cutting Ghostbusters: Afterlife and The Book of Boba Fett

Hear James D. Wilcox ACE talk about cutting Hillbilly Elegy and Thirteen Lives

Rosanne Tan ACE on editing Homecoming, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Hawkeye

Listen to parts one and two from the Season One interview with Dana and The Mandalorian editors

Check out the Season Two interview with the editors from The Mandalorian

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Subscribe to The Rough Cut for more great interviews with the heroes of the editing room!

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Editors – Dana E. Glauberman ACE, James D. Wilcox ACE and Rosanne Tan ACE

Set after the fall of the Empire, AHSOKA follows the former Jedi knight, Ahsoka Tano, as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

DANA E. GLAUBERMAN ACE

JAMES D. WILCOX ACE

ROSANNE TAN ACE

Editing Ahsoka

In our discussion with the AHSOKA editors, we talk about:

Cribbing Kurosawa's Kagemusha
Representing the audience in the cutting room
Pressing pause on Pittsburgh in VFX meetings
Dialing up Dune for the sound design
Ahsoka Tano and the Shawshank Redemption

The Credits

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Editor Dana E. Glauberman ACE on cutting Ghostbusters: Afterlife and The Book of Boba Fett

Hear James D. Wilcox ACE talk about cutting Hillbilly Elegy and Thirteen Lives

Rosanne Tan ACE on editing Homecoming, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Hawkeye

Listen to parts one and two from the Season One interview with Dana and The Mandalorian editors

Check out the Season Two interview with the editors from The Mandalorian

See what's new with Avid Media Composer

Subscribe to The Rough Cut for more great interviews with the heroes of the editing room!

Visit The Rough Cut on YouTube

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Reservation Dogs

Editors - Varun Viswanath ACE and Patrick Tuck

The RESERVATION DOGS editing team of Varun Viswanath ACE and Patrick Tuck have spent the last two of the show's three seasons, working together to close the loop on multiple, multi-generational stories. Considering that the focus was just on the four teens when Varun started the journey with the Season One pilot, this was no small feat. There was no roadmap as to how their lives and their stories would interconnect with the generations of "Rez Dogs" that came before.

RESERVATION DOGS follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California. To succeed, they will have to save enough money, outmaneuver the methheads at the junkyard on the edge of town and survive a turf war against a much tougher rival gang.

VARUN VISWANATH ACE

Varun is a Film & TV Editor based in Los Angeles, CA. He is a member of the American Cinema Editors and the Motion Pictures Editors Guild, and has an MFA in Film Editing from The American Film Institute Conservatory. His work on What We Do In The Shadows was nominated for Best Edited Comedy Series at the 2021 ACE Eddie awards.

PATRICK TUCK

Patrick Tuck is a versatile editor who most recently edited FX’s Dave and Mo for Netflix. Getting his start in the commercial and documentary world, Patrick prides himself on his talent for balancing genres and styles to create unique tones and rhythms, as well as his ability to find solutions for the toughest creative puzzles.

Editing Reservation Dogs

In our discussion with the RESERVATION DOGS editing team, we talk about:

Overwriting the story by a half, so you can cut it down by a third
Taking tonal adventures
Stringing together "joke pods"
Drug tripping just enough to earn a visit from the aliens
The Quentin connection

The Credits

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Hear Varun Viswanath ACE discuss editing the series BLINDSPOTTING

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The Holdovers

Director - Alexander Payne and Editor - Kevin Tent ACE

Longtime friends and collaborators, Alexander Payne and Kevin Tent, reunite once more for their eighth feature film, THE HOLDOVERS!

THE HOLDOVERS tells the tale of Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and also with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

Alexander Payne

Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne attended Stanford University, where he majored in Spanish and History. He then went on to study film at UCLA Film School. His university thesis film was screened at the Sundance film festival, which led to him being backed by Miramax to write and direct CITIZEN RUTH (1996).

Kevin Tent ACE

Editor Kevin Tent has the distinction of having edited all of Payne's feature films (as well as a TV pilot); including films such as CITIZEN RUTH (1996), ELECTION (1999), SIDEWAYS (2004) and THE DESCENDANTS (2011) for which Tent received an Oscar nomination. Kevin is currently serving as president of the American Cinema Editors.

Making The Holdovers

In our discussion with Alexander Payne and Kevin Tent ACE from THE HOLDOVERS, we talk about: