Editing - IFTA Skills in Focus

with Maryann Brandon, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle and Mick Mahon

Oscar nominated editor Maryann Brandon (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek), and IFTA-winning Editors Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (Rosie, The Crown, Death on the Nile) and Mick Mahon (Gaza, Breaking Out) join IFTA for Editing - Skills in focus, supported by Screen Skills Ireland.

IFTA, in association with Screen Skills Ireland, presents IFTA Skills in Focus, with Oscar nominated editor Maryann Brandon (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek), and IFTA-winning Editors Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (Rosie, The Crown, Death on the Nile) and Mick Mahon (Gaza, Breaking Out)

This event will see leading hollywood editor Maryann Brandon share the skills and techniques that have seen her edit some of the biggest blockbusters of all time. Following this Maryann will be joined by a panel of leading Irish editors who will discuss key skills and techniques that they use to make top level work. 

Panel 1: Maryann Brandon in Conversation

9am

Maryann Brandon

Maryann Brandon is an Oscar-nominated American TV and film editor known for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek franchise.
 
Brandon earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her editing work on the popular television series Alias in 2001, created by Abrams and has since edited on all of Abrams' films. Brandon worked with Abrams on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, earning her an Academy Award nomination in 2016 for Best Film Editing for her work on the film, sharing the nomination with Mary Jo Markey. 

Brandon also worked with Abrams on his two highly successful Star Trek adaptations, Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Other key credits include How to Train Your Dragon, Passengers, Venom & Super 8. Brandon is editing the next instalment of Marvel’s Thor franchise, Thor: Love and Thunder directed by Oscar-winner Taika Waititi. 

Panel 2: Editing Skills, with Maryann Brandon,Úna Ní Dhonghaíle and Mick Mahon

9:45am

Maryann will be joined by IFTA-winning Editors Úna Ní Dhonghaíle and Mick Mahon to discuss key skills and techniques that they use to make top level work. 

Úna Ní Dhonghaíle

Multi-award winning editor, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle ACE, BFE is best known for her work on The Crown, Misbehaviour, Three Girls, Rosie and Stan and Ollie.

She has worked on the leading lights of British drama in what some are calling "The Golden Age of Television," editing episodes of the Netflix multi-award winning show, The Crown , Kenneth Brannagh's Wallander, BBC's Les Misérables, Doctor Who, Ripper Street and The Missing  amongst others. Over a five year period, she co-directed and edited a documentary Invisible Man, for which she won the 2016 IFTA for Best Editing in Television. Úna has also received much recognition for her editing of the highly acclaimed BBC drama Three Girls, for which she has won the BAFTA award for Best Fiction Editing and the IFTA for Best Editing

Úna has edited Stan and Ollie starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, directed by Jon S Baird, and Rosie, directed by Paddy Breathnach and written by Roddy Doyle, and Sir Kenneth Branagh's All Is True. Úna recently edited Death On The Nile with Sir Kenneth Branagh.

Mick Mahon

Mick Mahon is a Dublin born film editor. He graduated from the Irish National Film School with distinction in 1992, specialising in cinematography. After graduating he switched to post-production. Mick worked as an assistant film editor throughout the 90’s on many high profile feature films. Subsequently, he began to carve out a career as an editor in his own right. He has been at the forefront of documentary editing in Ireland over the last 15 years.

In that time, he has established long standing relationships with some of Ireland’s leading filmmakers. In recent years, he has branched out into drama also. In 2015, he received an Irish Film & Television Award for the feature documentary, Rough Rider, and has been nominated a further eight times. In the same year, he edited The Queen of Ireland, one of the highest grossing Irish documentaries of all time. In 2018, he was editor on two of the most well-reviewed features released in Ireland, Citizen Lane, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, and I, Dolours, directed by Maurice Sweeney. Last year, he won the IFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on Gaza. 

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