By Adam Remson
Editor Sarah Iben has joined Final Cut, New York. According to Final Cut managing director Stephanie Apt, Iben’s editorial style is what the firm had been seeking to round out its stable of five editors.
"Everybody in the company felt we needed somebody with a really strong comedy skill set," Apt explained. "So we started looking at reels and Sarah’s consistently rose to the top of the heap."
Iben, although not exclusively a comedy editor, employs some guidelines she’s gleaned from that genre. "There is a simplicity about [my work]," she managed to say between her humble objections to requests for self-analysis. "I tend to go more for simplicity. I sometimes use the word ‘clean’ to describe the work." Apt agreed, noting that Iben’s sense of timing "is impeccable, and there is a quiet intelligence about the way her work was done."
Iben is a graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, with a degree in communications/film. After graduating in 1992, she began a brief freelance career as a production assistant, and later as a production coordinator. Iben took a position as a telecine assistant at Cutters, Chicago, working from midnight until 8 a.m., but was soon moved over to assistant editor working on the new Avid technology. In ’96, after Iben had moved up to junior editor, she moved over to TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York, where she worked as manager/ editor of its in-house editorial company. In ’98 she crossed the country for an editor position at FilmCore Santa Monica. Iben returned to New York in 2000 to take an editor position at Lost Planet, remaining there until accepting her current position.
Iben comes aboard a Final Cut roster that also consists of editors Kirk Baxter, Gary Knight, Carlos Arias and Namakula Musoke.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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