There's nothing like a Midnighter at Sundance Film Festival, so this year I was, of course, lined up to see the low-budget Midnight selection, undertone.The film is a single-location horror story that follows Evy (Nina Kiri), a woman providing end-of-life care to her mother. During the long nights, she co-hosts a paranormal podcast with her friend Justin. They have the tried-and-true believer-versus-skeptic dynamic. Evy has her doubts about the supernatural—until a strange series of audio files seems to creep into the real world of her childhood home.The film's editor is Sonny Atkins. When a producer sent him writer/director Ian Tuason's script about a year ago, Atkins had already worked with the production team for 10 years. It was an easy yes, he said, even though horror was new territory for an editor who built his skills cutting 30-second commercials at Rooster, a Toronto post house.We spoke with Atkins about editing his first feature, navigating a sound-driven horror film, and what he learned from bringing Tuason's precise vision to the screen. - YouTube www.youtube.com Editor's note: The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.No Film School: What got you excited to come onto the project?Sonny Atkins: I knew the team for a long time. I'd never met Ian, the director, but Dan Slater, Rod Hafezi, and a couple of the people who were on the production team, producers—I'd known them for over a decade, started making films with them when we were all young and hungry and inexperienced and...
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