Jacqueline Cambas

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Jacqueline C. Cambas (born in New York City) is an American film editor.

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Life

Jacqueline Cambas was born in New York City. [1] From 1972 until 1976 she studied education and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Cambas was working as a teacher before she started to work in the film industry. [1]

Since the mid-1970s Cambas was active as a film editor. In the beginning she was assistant editor for Tom Rolf, with whom she worked on films such as Hardcore , The Great Outdoors or Black Rain . Soon she started to work on her own. Since Racing with the Moon (1984) she often worked with director Richard Benjamin on films such as City Heat , The Money Pit , Little Nikita , My Stepmother Is an Alien , Downtown , Mermaids , Made in America , Milk Money , Mrs. Winterbourne , The Shrink Is In or Marci X .

Cambas is a member of American Cinema Editors (ACE), where she is a life member in the Board of Directors since 2017. [2] [3]

Selected filmography

Editor
YearFilmDirectorNotes
1980 The Gong Show Movie Chuck Barris
Falling in Love Again Steven Paul
1981 Zoot Suit Luis Valdez
1982 Personal Best Robert Towne
Cat People Paul Schrader Second collaboration with Paul Schrader
1983 Surf II Randall M. Badat
1984 Racing with the Moon Richard Benjamin First collaboration with Richard Benjamin
City Heat Second collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1986 The Money Pit Third collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1987 Light of Day Paul SchraderThird collaboration with Paul Schrader
1988 Little Nikita Richard BenjaminFourth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
My Stepmother Is an Alien Fifth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1990 Downtown Sixth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
Mermaids Seventh collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1991 Frankie and Johnny Garry Marshall
1992 School Ties Robert Mandel
1993 Made in America Richard BenjaminEighth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1994 Milk Money Ninth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1995 Now and Then Lesli Linka Glatter First collaboration with Lesli Linka Glatter
1996 Mrs. Winterbourne Richard BenjaminTenth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
1998 The Proposition Lesli Linka GlatterSecond collaboration with Lesli Linka Glatter
1999 The Love Letter Peter Chan
2001 The Shrink Is In Richard BenjaminEleventh collaboration with Richard Benjamin
Freddy Got Fingered Tom Green
2003 Marci X Richard BenjaminTwelfth collaboration with Richard Benjamin
2006 Relative Strangers Greg Glienna
The Butterfly Effect 2 John R. Leonetti Direct-to-video
2007 The Trouble with Romance Gene Rhee
2010Rollers Romeo Antonio
2022Ten TricksRichard Pagano
Editorial department
YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
1974 The Trial of Billy Jack Tom Laughlin Post-production coordinator
1979 Hardcore Paul SchraderAssistant film editorFirst collaboration with Paul Schrader
1988 The Great Outdoors Howard Deutch Additional editor
1989 Black Rain Ridley Scott
Additional crew
YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
1974I Love You, I Love You NotJames BryanProduction assistant
2006 The Butterfly Effect 2 John R. LeonettiTitle sequence designerDirect-to-video
Actress
YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
1977BoogievisionJames BryanFeminist Car Pooler
Uncredited
Production manager
YearFilmDirectorRole
1977 Billy Jack Goes to Washington Tom LaughlinPost-production supervisor

TV movies

Editor
YearFilmDirector
1978 A Christmas to Remember George Englund
1998 The Pentagon Wars Richard Benjamin
Tourist Trap
2001The Sports Pages
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2004 The Goodbye Girl
2006For the Love of a Child Douglas Barr
A Little Thing Called Murder Richard Benjamin
2013Killer BeautyJason Sklaver

TV series

Editor
YearTitleNotes
2006 Masters of Horror 1 episode
2006−08 Men in Trees 16 episodes
2008 Life 3 episodes
2009 WWII in HD 10 episodes
2010 Pretty Little Liars 1 episode
2011 Vietnam in HD 4 episodes

TV shorts

Editor
YearFilmDirector
2010Kick It Up L.A.!

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References

  1. 1 2 Luis Reyes, Peter Rubie: Hispanics in Hollywood: A Celebration of 100 Years in Film and Television. Lone Eagle Publishing, 2000, ISBN   978-1580650250, p. 433.
  2. Board of Directors . In: americancinemaeditors.org, access date 25 September 2020.
  3. ACE board installation luau . In: americancinemaeditors.org, 25 November 2017.