Six Week Intensive

MEWShop Announces Artist in Residence 2011: Your Destination For Creative Excellence

Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Six-Week Intensive Course in the art of editing plays host to the industry’s top filmmakers and editors; Emmy®-nominated editor and renowned author Bobbie O’Steen shares candid stories from the cutting room floor

"Outlook: Training, Be Prepared!" featured in Post Magazine By Ken McGorry

Seven year old Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEWShop) offers a full range of certified classes in the art and technique of editing, including Final Cut Studio, Avid and Adobe.  Customized classes are designed to provide top-tier training to professional's and aspiring editors. 

MEWShop Welcomes Editor Suzy Elmiger as Our Next Artist in Residence

Manhattan Edit Workshop proudly announces Suzy Elmiger, ACE, as our Artist In Residence for the November 2009 Six Week Intensive Workshop

Manhattan Edit Worforce: Connecting Students with Employers - Apple.com Profile

"Less starving, more artist" is the tagline for Manhattan Edit Workshop's Six-week Intensive course in the art and technique of editing.  Manhattan Edit Workshop or MEWShop as they are known, is an Apple Authorized Training Center (AATC) located in New York City.  Their signature Six-week Intensive program serves as a comprehensive jump-start for students who are serious about launching a career in post production. 

MEWShop Welcomes Andrew Mondshein

Manhattan Edit Workshop welcomes Oscar nominated editor Andrew Mondshein, ACE, as the Artist in Residence for our March Six Week Intensive Workshop

Manhattan Edit Workforce Launches

MEWShop is constantly looking for new ways to connect students and employers. To this end, we‘re launching a new program. We call it Manhattan Edit Workforce.

MEWShop Welcomes Editor John Gilroy

Manhattan Edit Workshop is proud to welcome film editor John Gilroy as Artist in Residence for our upcoming September Six Week Art of Editing Intensive. 

The Secret Passion of Curtiss Clayton

On a chilly evening this past Februrary, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and training center Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEW) present an evening with noted independent film editor Curtiss Clayton.

MEWShop’s Got the Right Stuff

Manhattan Edit Workshop was proud to have Stephen Rotter as Artist in Residence for its latest Six Week Course. 

Opening the Editing Vault

The editor is one of the many heroes of moviemaking who are underappreciated by mass audiences.  That means discriminating cinephiles who want the low down on their favorite choppers often find themselves with no way of getting the goods.

MEWShop is Jazzed about Editor Alan Heim

Recently, Manhattan Edit Workshop was honored to present Academy Award winning editor and ACE President Alan Heim to a packed house of colleagues, cutters and film buffs at the Helen Mills Theater in Chelsea

Thursday With Carol

On a wintry Thursday evening in late February, Carol Littleton, ACE spoke to a crowd of more than 50 filmmakers at the New York Editors Guild office.  In her presentation, the then Artist-in-Residence at the Manhattan Edit Workshop--who is a former President of the Guild and currently the organization's Vice President--described techniques of creating character and thematic introductions in her films. 

Carol Littleton: MEWShop’s First Artist in Residence for 2007

Whether you know Carol Littleton’s work from films like Steven Spielberg’s E.T., Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill, or Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate, chances are you know her work. Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Six Week Intensive Art of Editing Course is honored to have her as the first Artist in residence of 2007.

He'll Take Manhattan - Editor Michael Berenbaum, ACE

As the editor of Focus Features' fall release Hollywoodland, Michael Berenbaum can empathize with the plight of the film's real-life character, George Reeves and perils of being typecast.   Television's first Superman, Reeves (played by Ben Affleck) slowly deteriorates throughout the film's flashbacks as his dreams of becoming a serious actor are crushed by the very public weight of his red cape. 

He'll Take Manhattan - Our Fall 2006 Artist in Residence

This past fall, Michael Berenbaum served as Manhattan Edit Workshop Artist-in-Residence for the Six Week Art-of-Editing course. Berenbaum mentored a class of students and worked with them on a unique project.

Editor in Residence

Every moviemaker knows that a film never truly takes shape until it makes way to the editing room.  A great editor is a much a necessity for a successful film as as a talented writer or director. If it seems like well-known directors work with same editors over the course of their movies career that's because, well, they do!