Buried in the lineup of keynote presentations and tech demos of new AI models and video editing tools, and features at this year’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, the team at Adobe hosted a screening of It Was Just An Accident—the latest film by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, which took home the Palme d'Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.Despite featuring no AI or green screen special effects, the film served as an important reminder that—despite your excitement or fears regarding the newest and scariest of technologies—nothing will ever trump real human experiences and real human stories made by real human filmmakers.To learn more about how the film came to be, and more specifically, how it was brought to life in the edit, we chatted with editor Amir Etminan about how he was able to reteam up with Panahi to tell this important story.Note: This interview was conducted with Etminan via a translator and has been edited for clarity.No Film School: Could you introduce yourself and give some background on your film and video editing career?Amir Etminan: So, I was born in a small city in Iran, on the border with Turkey, and to say how exactly I started in editing, I wouldn't know, but I remember we had a huge VHS camera. Yeah, it's a very big one, almost as big as the broadcast camera today. And we would use it when we would travel to shoot travel shots, and when we would come back, I would digitize...
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