Talking MEWShop Episode 10 with Editor Stephanie Filo, ACE

https://www.mewshop.com/ Contact: [e-mail] for information and inquiries on classes and events. In this episode of "Talking MEWShop," the team gets the opportunity to speak with four-time Emmy-winning Editor Stephanie Filo, ACE. Stephanie recounts how she was a dancer who transitioned to film editing after being inspired by the movie 'Seven'. She talks about her start in the industry as a night Assistant Editor. At Fancy Film, she developed her technical skills and received mentorship. She discusses collaborating post-Covid, as well as her work and development as an artist in post-production. Stephanie Filo, ACE is a four-time Emmy, as well as Peabody and ACE Eddie Award-winning Film/Television Editor and activist based in Los Angeles, CA, and Sierra Leone, West Africa. She serves on the board for Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone, a social impact and feminist-based organization for Sierra Leonean girls aged 11-16. She is one of the co-founders of End Ebola Now, an organization created in 2014 to spread accurate information and awareness about the Ebola Virus and its impact through artistic community activism. Aside from editing television and film, Stephanie spends much of her spare time producing and editing social action campaigns and documentaries, primarily focused on the rights of women and girls worldwide. Some of her notable campaigns include her work with the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, and the Obama White House Task Force's It's On Us campaign to combat campus sexual assault. Her charitable work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Telegraph UK, Yahoo, Al Jazeera, XWhy Magazine, and various others. Her work on the news documentary series "Mental State" earned her an Emmy nomination for the episode "Aging Out" about youth aging out of the American foster care system. She earned an Emmy win for her editing on the Mental State episode "Separated" which covered ICE deportations, making herself and Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to ever win an Emmy award. In 2021, she won a Primetime Emmy award for her work on HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show", making her team the first all-Women of Color editing team to take home the award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. In 2022, she made history again as a member of the first all-black editing team to be nominated for and win both an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for "A Black Lady Sketch Show". Most recently in 2023, she has made history again, as the first Picture Editor and first Black editor to ever be Emmy nominated for 3 different series at the same time. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate, Blackmagic and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications. Manhattan Edit Workshop's mission is to provide the highest quality education for filmmakers and editors. Focusing on both the art and technology inherent to our craft. We foster a "learn by doing" approach in an atmosphere where mistakes are encouraged as part of the process and the only "silly" question is the one that isn't asked. Follow, like and share Manhattan Edit Workshop on Social Media https://youtube.com/@mewshop https://www.linkedin.com/school/manhattan-edit-workshop/ https://www.facebook.com/ManhattanEditWorkshop/ https://www.instagram.com/mewshop/ https://twitter.com/MEWShop https://vimeo.com/mewshop https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFTpOOSGrCfKShrx15YojdQ #stephaniefilo #talkingmewshop #dahmer #careersinfilmediting #postproduction #ManhattanEditWorkshop #MEWShop #Mewtube