need sources on how to locate film and video editors would be
intereteed in both professional and amateur.

Greetings Rr3225:

I located a one-stop source for locating film editors - the Motion
Picture Editors Guild (http://www.editorsguild.com) member search. 
It's located at http://www.editorsguild.com/DirectorySearch.asp and I
simply chose one field in the form - under "Classification" I chose
"Picture Editor" and hit the Search button.  It returned a long list
of member names.  There are other fields including "Category" and
"Award" - you can play with the site search engine for various
results.

Clicking on the members' links produced only a minimun of information,
so I executed a web search with one of the names at random.  I placed
it in quotation marks - "Ron Cabreros" - and found his online resume
at http://www.angelfire.com/empire/teknomage/resume.html.  Searching
from the Motion Picture Editor member list should be a good source for
you.


Also, you might consider placing an ad query at Playback
(http://www.playbackmag.com/careers/) and you might also want to
conact ACE (American Cinema Editors) at
http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/educate.htm


To locate the resumes of persons citing film and/or video editing in
their experience, I searched the following keyphrases:

"film editor" resume
"video editor" resume

and the search returned many listings.  See
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22film+editor%22+resume
[Ron Cabreros also came up in this list] and
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22video+editor%22+resume
to peruse the results.  I saw what appeared to be both amateurs and
professionals in both of those lists.


The California Employment Cevelopment Department at
http://www.calmis.cahwnet.gov/file/occguide/Filmedtr.htm gave a list
of film organizations including the Motion Picture Editors Guild and
the text there read in part "Most Film and Video Editors belong to the
Motion Picture and Videotape Editors Guild of the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), while others in the
television industry are affiliated with the National Association of
Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET), the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), or are covered by an
industrial union agreement":

Motion Picture Editors Guild - Local 700
7715 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 200
Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 876-4770
http://www.editorsguild.com

National Association of Broadcast Employees
  and Technicians (NABET)
433 Natoma Street, Suite 220
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 398-3160
http://www.nabet51.org

National Association of Broadcasters
1771 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 429-5300
http://www.nab.org

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
  Employees (IATSE)
West Coast Office
10045 Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake, CA 91602
(818) 980-3499
Fax: (818) 980-3496
http://www.iatse.lm.com/index.html

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90211-1972
(310) 247-3000
http://www.oscars.org

These may prove good sources for you as well.


Should you require clarification of any of the sources I have
provided, please request it and I'll be happy to respond.


SEARCH STRATEGY:

film editor guild
video editor guild [the Motion Picture Editors Guild was also the
first return in this search]
"Ron Cabreros" resume
"film editor" resume
"video editor" resume
"film editor" union

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Request for Answer Clarification by rr3225-ga on 24 Feb 2003 11:18 PST

great searching but our main interest is in video---please help us

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Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 24 Feb 2003 12:42 PST

Have you have a chance to review the many resumes of video editors at
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22video+editor%22+resume
(see above in answer) - also, the link I provided above to the
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at
http://www.iatse.lm.com may prove to be a good source.

"1975 - The IATSE went head-to-head with the National Association of
Broadcasting and Engineering Technicians (NABET) in a successful
campaign to organize videotape editors. Over 200 new members joined
the Guild."
From Motion Pictures Editors Guild
http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/Directory/history.html


See also NABET-CWA, the National Association of Broadcast Employees
and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, web site at
http://www.nabetcwa.org/ for video tape editors.  Their member list
begins at http://www.nabetcwa.org/members/members.asp?page=search 
They include video editors in their membership.


You may also want to purchase or borrow a copy of the Producer's
Masterguide - see http://www.producers.masterguide.com/contents.html
for contents information - it costs $140 in the US (shipping included)
and you may view the purchasing information at
http://www.producers.masterguide.com/subscription.html.  The text
there suggests that public libraries may be billed and not have to
pre-pay (see towards bottom).  You may be able to find it from a large
public library in or near your area.


I believe these sources will be of assistance to you in locating video
tape editors.  Should you need further clarification, please request
it and I will be happy to respond.

1st class-wuick answers--deserves a tip

Thank you so much for your rating, comments and generosity!  I'm
delighted you are pleased with my research.  :)