Film editor bob ducsay biography
Knives out.
by Rob Feld
In conversation, one gets the sense that Bob Ducsay, ACE, is at core an artist who just happens to find himself in the body of a sought-after film editor.
As a child growing up in Miami, he occupied himself making 8mm movies on his own, cutting them together without knowing what editing was.
Film editor bob ducsay biography
In college, when he started thinking about what he wanted to do with his life, his mind turned back to movies and this thing he had heard of, film school. He was drawn to photography, theater, and lighting, but once in the Graduate Film Program at USC, he found that editing appealed to his interests in technology and, more importantly, the craft of storytelling.
But when Ducsay’s classmate, director Steve Sommers, got a low-budget film right out of USC and asked him to cut it, the die was cast. Sommers was to keep Ducsay busy in the years to come with a string of films as their careers progressed through larger and more complex projects.
Currently, Ducsay has completed his fou