Petschek, Paul

Paul Petschek is an Avid-Certified Instructor and a member of The Motion Picture Editors Guild and The Directors Guild of America. He is an internationally known editor, specializing in feature films and documentaries, with experience in editing TV series, TV pilots, music videos, trailers, and commercials.

Paul has had the pleasure of working as an editor on films such as Waterworld, Flipper, Another Day in Paradise, and A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies. Petschek's editing project Most (The Bridge), was nominated in 2003 by the Academy for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

As a film editor, Paul enjoys being a key participant in "the final draft of the script," when every nuance and eye-glance counts. He finds it to be a creatively dynamic, magical process. Paul enjoys being both an editor and an instructor who can help pass along the tools that open up that process for students.

Initially trained in visual arts at Harvard College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, he also has had his photographic sequences exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and seen by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.