Agenda (subject to change and availability)

6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join guest Gurus Michael Kammes, Monica Daniel, Hayden Hilliar-Smith and Sven Pape as they will attempt to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems concerning Resolve, FCPX, Avid, Premiere Pro, getting a job and Networking. And anything else you can think of. If they can't solve your problem or answer your question, then you go home with a problem, but you still got out of the house, so that's not a bad thing.


7:20PM - 8:05PM -Black Lady Sketch Show - Steph Filo ACE, S.Robyn Wilson and Bradinn French
A Black Lady Sketch Show is the universally acclaimed sketch comedy series that debuted in 2019 and has been a hit ever since. The show is thought to be the first sketch comedy series written, produced by, and starring Black women. At the recent 2023 ACE Eddie awards, the team won the Eddie for Best editing for a Variety show, making them the first all black editing team to win the distinguished award. We are fortunate to have three of the four editors at lacpug and they will show clips and talk about their process

About Stephanie Filo ACE
Stephanie Filo ACE is a three-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning TV/Film Editor and activist based in Los Angeles, CA and Sierra Leone, West Africa. She serves on the board for Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone, a social impact and feminist-based organization for Sierra Leonean girls aged 11-16. She is one of the co-founders of End Ebola Now, an organization created in 2014 to spread accurate information and awareness about the Ebola Virus and its impact through artistic community activism.

Aside from editing television and film, with a passion for bringing a voice to social issues and telling stories of the under-represented, Stephanie spends much of her spare time producing and editing social action campaigns and documentaries, primarily focused on the rights of women and girls worldwide. Some of her notable campaigns include her work with the United Nations, International Labour Organization, and the Obama White House Task Force's It's On Us campaign to combat campus sexual assault. Her charitable work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Telegraph UK, Yahoo, Al Jazeera, XWhy Magazine, and various others. Her work on the news documentary series "Mental State" earned her an Emmy nomination for the episode "Aging Out" about youth aging out of the American foster care system. She earned an Emmy win for her editing on the Mental State episode "Separated" which covered ICE deportations, making herself and Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to ever win an Emmy award. In 2021, she won a Primetime Emmy award for her work on HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show", making her team the first all-Women of Color editing team to take home the award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. Most recently, she made history again as a member of the first all-black editing team to be nominated for and win an Emmy for "A Black Lady Sketch Show".

About S.Robyn Wilson
Graduating from the American Film Institute in 2012, with an MFA in Editing, Robyn worked as an Assistant Editor for nine year. Work took her from Reality TV (Brody Stevens: Enjoy it, Street Outlaws & The Demon Files), Documentaries (Mindless Behavior, Tap World), to Scripted TV (I Love Dick, Nashville) and Indie Features (Pig, Werewolves Within).
Robyn’s first official foray into editing started on the breakout Starz hit, Blindspotting in 2020. In 2022 she won an Emmy in editing for Season 3 of A Black Lady Sketch Show. This year, she won the coveted A.C.E. Eddie Award. You can see her recent work on New Amsterdam - The Final Season on NBC.

About Bradinn French
Bradinn French is an Emmy Award-winning film and television editor with credits from scripted drama to sketch comedy to documentary. He is also a strong advocate for representation in the film industry, and telling stories that represent diverse perspectives. Credits include Emmy Award-winning "A Black Lady Sketch Show", TriBeCa Film Festival Award-winning documentary Ferguson Rises, Peabody Award-winning documentary Surviving R. Kelly, American Horror Story, and Hulu limited series Washington Black which premieres in late 2023.

8:05- 8:30PM - Break
This is the most important part of the show. It's networking time. This is a great opportunity to not only ask questions and get problems solved, but to meet people that just might change your life. There will hopefully be cookies in the lobby, but who knows. Well there will be water for sure, so there is that.

8:30PM - 9:30PM - The Last of Us - Timothy Good ACE and Emily Mendez
The Last of Us is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed series currenly on television. It's first five episodes averaged over 22 million viewers. It is based on the video game of the same name. We are excited to present two of the editors, Timothy Good and Emily Mendez to talk about their work and show clips. Hopefully there will be AMPLE time for questions.

About Timothy Good ACE
Timothy A. Good ACE is a film editor, producer, director and educator. He hails from Oak Park, Illinois - the location of many Frank Lloyd Wright homes which inspired him to build models as a child leading to a career in building film and television stories. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois majoring in Radio/TV/Film. He has edited a wide variety of TV series including THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, THE RESIDENT, FRINGE, THE O.C. and the original GOSSIP GIRL which was his first pilot. He also co-edited the feature film DEAD MAN DOWN directed by Niels Arden Oplev (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) and was an editor on Dustin Lance Black’s LGBTQ+ miniseries WHEN WE RISE. He is a visiting lecturer at the UCLA Graduate School for Film and Television and has taught creative editing to directors and cinematographers for 15 years. He is a big believer in mentorship, and all of his past assistant editors have gone on to become editors in their own right, including Emily Mendez, his current co-editor for the HBO series THE LAST OF US.


















About Emily Mendez
Emily Mendez grew up near Fort Worth, Texas, where she spent most of her childhood creating family videos with her siblings. After graduating as a film major from TCU, she made her way to Los Angeles where she received her masters degree in film editing at the American Film Institute. It was at AFI that she was lucky enough to study under many talented editors, including DONN CAMBERN, ACE, and FARREL LEVY, ACE, who encouraged her interest in visual storytelling to bloom. This mentorship led to Emily’s eventual entrance into television, where she has worked on the editorial teams for THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, THE RESIDENT, LIGHT AS A FEATHER, ROSEWOOD, and most recently THE LAST OF US. During THE LAST OF US, Emily was given the opportunity to rise from assistant editor to co-editor alongside Timothy A. Good ACE, for four episodes. Her partnership with Tim has allowed Emily’s understanding of editorial architecture and design to flourish.



















9:40PM - World Famous Raffle (subject to change)
Boris FX Suite - Boris FX
Sandisk Pro Armor 4TB Drive - IVB Media
iOgrapher Multi Pro Case for iPad Pro - iOgraher
Beauty Box Video - Digital Anarchy
1 Editing Desk - Edit5 Console
3x Pixeltools - Jason Bowdach (Pixeltools Post
1x Pro Maintenance Tools - Digital Rebellion
1x Cineplay - Digital Rebellion
1x Kollaberate - Digital Rebellion
1x Pro Pro Media Tools - Digital Rebellion
Automatic Duck Bottle Openers - Wes Plate