Editor Kate Owen, who now divides her time between New York and London, has secured her first stateside representation, joining the roster of Chinagraph, New York. She continues to be handled in the U.K. by Marshall Street Editors, a London shop she’s been cutting work at for nearly a decade.
Editing full-time since 2000, Owen has amassed a body of spot work that spans clients such as Guinness, Johnny Walker, Xerox, Canon and Samsung, and the Victoria Beckham collection.
She got her start assisting at the age of 18, working at an edit house in London’s Soho district. Owen began her cutting career with film trailers and then diversified into commercials encompasing assorted genres, from action to comedy and fast-paced montages.
Owen joins a lineup of Chinagraph editors that includes owners Eric Carlson and Kane Platt, as well as John Gramaglia, Peter Mostert, Pete Slife, and Thomas Ostuni. The company’s exec producer is Rosemary Quigley.
Cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino Discusses Residente’s “313,” Winning An ASC Award
Pepe Avila del Pinoโs second career nomination for an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award earned him his first win earlier this week in Los Angeles--for outstanding achievement in music videos on the strength of the Residente-directed โ313โ featuring performances by Residente, Sรญlvia Pรฉrez Cruz and Penelope Cruz. The cinematic, stirringly beautiful โ313โ opens with Penelope Cruz narrating in Spanish, reflecting on the meaning of life and the passage of time. She is joined by ballet dancers who are said to represent time while Cruz represents life itself. The ethereal music video brings us the essence of time in our lives. Residenteโs life and time are seemingly controlled, respectively, by Cruz and the dancers from the outset. But towards the end of the video, Residente starts to orchestrate his own time and life. What canโt be denied, though, is that time is fleeting as Cruz and Residente begin to disappear before our eyes. Avila del Pino, AMC, is best known for his work in television and features. In fact, his alluded to first ASC Award nomination came in 2018 on the basis of the TV pilot for The Deuce, directed by Michelle MacLaren. Over the past seven years, Avila del Pino has lensed select music videos--all for his friend, Residente (a.k.a. Rene Perez Joglar). The Residente videos have thus become passion projects, done out of โpure loveโ with the same close-knit team. The โ313โ song and video were especially personal to Residente in that they were both inspired by a friend who had died about a year earlier. To win an ASC Award for this particular project is most gratifying for Avila del Pino--not only because of the videoโs significance to Residente, but also the deep feelings the DP has for the ASC.... Read More