Film Editor

Job Overview

Distant Moon’s Film Editor reports to our studio in Leesburg, VA and works under the creative direction of our directors and/or Post Production Supervisor to produce assemblies, rough cuts, fine cuts, and final cuts that meet Distant Moon’s high standards and capture the vision of the client as interpreted by a project’s creative lead. The Film Editor reports directly to the Post Production Supervisor. 

Roles and Responsibilities include: 

• Working under the direction of the Post Production Supervisor for all creative feedback and reporting to the Post Production Manager for all scheduling and deliverables.
• Working under the creative direction of a project’s director and/or the Post Production Supervisor to ensure the goals of an edit are met at every stage.
• Using Distant Moon’s standard operating procedures for all editorial work.
• Organizing, syncing, and categorizing footage for Distant Moon edits.
• Taking a lead when applicable in editing together assembly cuts, rough cuts, fine cuts, and final cuts of edits.
• Serving as the initial round of review before work goes to a supervisor or director.
• Basic sound mixing for getting voice and music to appropriate levels up until an edit is sent off to the sound department for final mix and design.
• Sourcing archival images, video, and other online assets as directed by the post-production supervisor.
• Finding music and/or editing music tracks together.
• Uploading edits to frame.io and sharing review links internally.
• As applicable to your interests, potentially traveling periodically for on-set/on-location production, either locally or on travel jobs at Distant Moon’s expense.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of five years experience in post-production and editorial
• Proficiency in utilizing Adobe Creative Cloud applications to design and create custom content: Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Photoshop, After Effects
• Proficiency in MacOS
• Thorough understanding of and passion for all elements encompassed in the art of filmmaking, including narrative, color, flow, timing, sound, and composition.
• Motivated and self-directed.
• Strong commitment to excellence, creativity, collaboration, integrity, and a lead-by-example work ethic.
• Able to self-examine and revise work before submitting for review.
• Welcomes constructive criticism and enjoys learning new ways to sharpen and hone craft.

Reporting to this position: No direct reports

Additional Preferred Skills (Not Required)

• Adobe Audition and Illustrator
• Davinci Resolve
• Interest in long-form narrative content and being part of a growing film studio.
• Live stream and live sound experience.

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The majority of this job is completed in an open-space office setting.

General Sign-Off: The team member is expected to adhere to all company policies.

Location: In-person. No remote.