The Editor’s Survival Guide to Networking Information

The Editor’s Survival Guide to Networking is a course designed to equip individuals, particularly those in the field of film editing, with the skills and strategies needed to navigate and succeed in the competitive world of the film industry. The course focuses specifically on networking, recognizing it as a critical and often overlooked aspect of building a successful career.

A 3 1/2-hour session with ACE Award-nominated editor Sven Pape: Harnessing your passion, building confidence, and developing networking strategies that work in the film industry.

I tackle one of the most critical and often overlooked part of building a successful career in the film industry: Networking. If you think success comes with who you know, think again.

What You’ll Learn In The Editor’s Survival Guide to Networking?

• We start with identifying your passion because nothing is more attractive to clients than an enthusiastic editor
• We work on confidence and develop small tactics that will help you build more of it
• Next is a comprehensive resource analyses. Who do you know and can get to that is in your immediate circle already.
• We run through a rolodex framework where we find and target cold leads and continuously move them towards becoming viable contacts
• We go through the steps of gaining tractions through networking, at events as well as through longterm relationship building

About Author

I’m an ACE Award-nominated editor who cut for James Cameron (3D-Imax ‘Ghosts Of The Abyss’), Mark Webber (Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee, ‘The End of Love’), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Emmy-Winning ‘HitRECord on TV’). Films I cut premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Cannes, and played theatrically across the nation. I worked as Supervising Editor on several TV shows on networks like Bravo, E!, and Fox.

I was the Go-To Editor for companies like Fremantle Media (American Idol) and cut pilots for them for more than five years. My YouTube Channel ‘This Guy Edits’ has over 475k subscribers and focuses on creative storytelling and editing. I taught Film Editing at Columbia College Hollywood, and I am a regular guest lecturer at the UCLA Film Extension. I now designed this course where I teach you everything I know about becoming a Go-To Editor.

More courses from the same author: Sven Pape