Twelve features. One editing room. Now yours′
MemberPrime Studio began as June Marlow’s private notes to assistant editors. Three seasons later it’s a working room where documentary makers learn the craft the way it’s actually practiced — over real timelines, with real deadlines, in front of each other.
Three house rules
Twelve weeks, one problem at a time
Twelve weeks, one craft problem at a time
A season opens with a whole film pulled apart across four episodes — structure first, then sound, then the grade, then the business of getting it seen. Every Thursday the room brings its own footage to the same problem, which is why the notes land: forty editors wrestling one idea in the same fortnight learn faster than forty editors watching forty tutorials.
Mid-season we stop teaching and start reviewing. Members submit rough cuts; June takes three of them apart on stream while the rest of the room takes notes on someone else’s mistakes, which is cheaper than making them yourself. Seasons close with a members’ screening — a real audience, timed applause, and the only deadline most independent films ever get.
Working editors, and people becoming one
Most members cut for a living — documentary, branded work, the occasional feature — and joined because the craft conversation dried up when everyone went remote. The rest are three or four years in and tired of guessing whether their instincts are any good. Both get the same thing out of it: a room that will tell you the truth about your timeline before an audience does.
You do not need a finished film to belong here. You need something in progress and a willingness to show it while it is still ugly.
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