Meet freelance editor, Victoria Mortati. From cutting art installkations and travel shows to being lead editor at Vogue, Victoria’s career has been varied and diverse. Starting her career as an AE taught her the value of project prep which she carried into her editing career. Oh and she has a pretty epic David Lynch themed career highlight! Enjoy Victoria’s career story.

Meet Lydia Bowden, editor and post coordinator at British Vogue. Lydia gets to edit iconic Vogue video franchises like ‘Into the Instagram Archive’, ‘Life in Looks’ with ‘In the Bag' oh and meet celebs like Robbie Williams, no biggie ;) ...pretty cool tbf. Alongside editing offline, she also liaises with VFX artists, animators, colourists and sound mixers day to today. She’s entirely self taught (all hail the YouTube tutorial) and her razor sharp focus on getting the role at British Vogue is so inspiring!! Enjoy Lydia’s career story!

Meet feature film editor Alexandra Amick. Alexandra shares the importance of a healthy work schedule, in her words, features are ’marathons not sprints’. She also has the most wonderful anecdote about her work on Muppets Haunted Mansion, you’ll have to know and love (like me!) the movie ‘Muppet Treasure Island’ to really appreciate it though!

Meet La’Aja J. Hernandez, an Emmy award winning editor on hit TV gam show The Price is Right! Editing a game show has such interesting and unique challenges and La’Aja shares some invaluable insight into the process.Working on a daily show means La’Aja is also sound mixing and grading episodes, an incredible feat! She’s the first African American female in the shows 50 year history and is doing an incredible job of pathing the way for others to thrive in the business. Enjoy La’Aja’s career story!

Meet Lainy Black, an editor at London based edit house The Assembly Rooms. Lainy’s story is all about owning your journey and realising that there’s no right way to get into the industry. She looked at every job as an opportunity that led her to being the editor she is today. Lainy’s style is current, enticing and incredibly fresh and she’s just getting started! Enjoy her career story!

Meet Theo Mercado, a commercial editor at Work Editorial. Theo spent her school years asking if she could submit films instead of papers for her finals and ever since, knew she wanted to be an editor. Still being haunted by the memory of heating up gazpacho for a director when she was an intern is the most relatable moment and I love that from that moment she's now citing Budweiser World Cup commercials as her career highlight! Enjoy Theo's brilliant career story!

Meet Elizabeth Clutterbuck, a long form editor based in Glasgow, working at Blazing Griffin Post Production. Elizabeth’s love of creativity and problem solving drew her to editing and when she got her first job as a runner in a production company and ensured everyone she worked with knew she wanted to edit! This put her in great stead to find her feet in the post world. She’s at the start of what, no doubt will be a really enriching and exciting career and she gives wonderful advice for those just entering the industry. Enjoy Elizabeth’s career story!

Meet Liz Adams, a UK based editor cutting factual and entertainment projects, and particularly events programming. Editing the late Queen’s coronavirus speech was one of Liz’s career highlights and I can absolutely understand why, incredible to be part of such a true moment in history. Liz approaches her role with such warmth and you can feel it in her story. Enjoy Liz’s career journey!