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Hollywood, aiming for more diversity, hopes inclusion riders will help broaden the composition of behind-the-camera crews. But so far, people with disabilities — who comprise nearly 20% of the population — have been left out of the conversation.
James Cude has been working as an editor for 18 years, on series including MTV’s “Suspect” and Syfy’s “Cosplay Melee” and “Haunted Highway,” among others. Since he was a teenager, he’s had sensorineural hearing loss, often caused by damage to the inner ear.
SHOUTOUT LA
We had the good fortune of connecting with James Cude and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi James, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
I once read this statement, and it has always stuck with me: Risk is a problem that COULD happen. Change fixes the problem that HAS happened. I think back on that statement as I answer this question, because I don’t consider myself a risk taker. It involves change, and I’m not a fan of change.
OBSESSED WITH “ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT”, podcast
Ep.4 How Did This Get Made?
Episode 4 is all about how the film Abducted in Plain Sight came together. When it came time to take all the material they had and make a movie out of it, how did they do it? How did they decide what the core story was and how to tell it? Over the course of putting this podcast together, one of the names that kept coming up as someone who was key to the storytelling of the film was the editor, James Cude. So we decided that Skye and James should sit down and have a conversation about what should stay, what should be cut, and how the storytelling helped propel this small, independent project into a worldwide phenomenon.
REEL TALKER
James had a very fun personality and talked about the isolation that editors have to deal with when they do their work of being alone in a room for hours end. It’s a valuable perspective from someone who does this for a living that might not always be thought of when it comes to the job they do im making a movie happen.