{"id":401,"date":"2019-09-03T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:43:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1><strong>ADE MISSION STATEMENT<\/strong><\/h1>\n<i>The Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE) is a working group of documentary film and television editors and assistant editors nationwide that campaigns for best practices within the industry while improving members&#8217; career sustainability. The ADE promotes a better understanding and acknowledgement of the documentary editor&#8217;s unique position as storyteller, writer, and artist, as well as technician. We advocate for better working conditions and codified ethical standards, and champion diversity, inclusivity, and mentorship in documentary post-production.<\/i>\n<h1><strong>ADE PRESS RELEASES<br>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>MAY 19, 2021:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BIPOC-Doc-Editors_Press_Sheet.pdf\"><strong>ALLIANCE OF DOCUMENTARY EDITORS ANNOUNCE CREATION OF BIPOC DOC EDITORS WEBSITE DATABASE<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>NOV 14, 2021:<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ADE-Scheduling-Guide-Press-Sheet.pdf\">ALLIANCE OF DOCUMENTARY EDITORS RELEASES NEW GUIDE FOR DOCUMENTARY EDIT SCHEDULES<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><strong>ADE IN THE NEWS<br>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hollywood Reporter | November 2021<br>\n<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/documentary-edit-schedules-guidelines-released-1235046663\/\"><strong>Documentary Editors Group Aims to Clarify &#8220;Humane Work Hours&#8221; Amid Boom in Nonfiction Content<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>International Documentary Association | October 2021<br>\n<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentary.org\/online-feature\/bipoc-doc-editors-and-their-fight-diverse-edit-rooms\">BIPOC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentary.org\/online-feature\/bipoc-doc-editors-and-their-fight-diverse-edit-rooms\"> Doc Editors and Their Fight for Diverse Edit Rooms<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Realscreen | May 2021<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/realscreen.com\/2021\/05\/27\/national-database-of-bipoc-doc-editors-to-launch-in-june\/\">National database of BIPOC doc editors to launch in June<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><strong>ADE ORIGIN STORY<br>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In August of 2018, a documentary editor sent an email to a few dozen of their peers.&nbsp; They were forwarding a job posting for an upcoming documentary series on a premium cable network.&nbsp; The production was seeking an &#8220;Editor with an elevated sensibility and documentary experience, great work ethic, and a magic touch for ARCHIVAL storytelling&#8221;.&nbsp; Among the listed job requirements:&nbsp; &#8220;12-hour days. [NON NEGOTIABLE]&#8221;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>One of the other editors reply-all&#8217;ed with the message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;12-hour days?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My thoughts exactly!!!&#8221; The next editor chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three reply-alls later, the Alliance of Documentary Editors was born.&nbsp; Editors from that email chain decided to meet up in-person and talk about how they could start taking steps to address persistent issues in the profession (issues like: frequent burnout, shrinking post schedules, the decline of mentorship opportunities for AE&#8217;s, wage exploitation, and other shared challenges).&nbsp; That meeting went well and a few more people showed up to the next one.&nbsp; And then a few more people showed up to the meeting after that.&nbsp; Over the course of the next year, ADE created an online community message board, formed numerous committees to address specific issues, built a website, hosted expert Q+A sessions with a lawyer and an accountant for its members, conducted a wage survey, generated a deal memo template for editors, formulated a governance structure, elected a steering committee and defined a collective mission.&nbsp; ADE has now become an active community with hundreds of members across the country who support each other and provide guidance to their collaborators in the documentary space.<\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Fiscal Sponsorship for ADE is provided by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IDA-logo-white-300x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"126\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADE MISSION STATEMENT The Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE) is a working group of documentary film and television editors and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allianceofdoceditors.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}