Art of the Cut

Steve Hullfish

Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on the craft and professional practice of film, television, and documentary editing, typically featuring external editors responsible for notable features and series. Credible pitches include award-winning or highly experienced picture editors with substantial credits on prominent productions; booking difficulty is high because guests generally have established industry reputations and major credits.

Metrics

Episodes: 224

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 313.0k subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

steve@veralith.com

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Host

Steve Hullfish - Film editor, author, and interviewer known for in-depth conversations about editorial craft and post-production.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Professional film, television, or documentary editors with substantial credits on notable productions, particularly editors with major studio, prestige-series, award-nominated, or award-winning work.

Required Achievements:

Emmy, Oscar, or ACE Eddie wins and nominations, Editing credits on prominent feature films or television series, Senior editorial or post-production credits on major studio productions

Recent Guest Discussions

Max Koepke - Reworking Chronological Structure To Strengthen Storytelling, Collaborating With A Showrunner-director-writer, And Editing The Same Scene With Different Intentions.

Kevin Ross - Reworking Chronological Structure To Strengthen Storytelling, Collaborating With A Showrunner-director-writer, And Editing The Same Scene With Different Intentions.

Carsten Kurpanek - Prevising An Entire Film, The Iterative Editing Process, And Moving A Scripted Scene To Function As The Story’s Inciting Incident.

Claire Simpson - Using A Meditative Opening, Shaping Aerial Footage, And Recognizing When A Performance Should Determine Not To Cut.

Sam Restivo - Using A Meditative Opening, Shaping Aerial Footage, And Recognizing When A Performance Should Determine Not To Cut.

Recent Topics

Film, Film Editing, Post Production, Television Editing, Documentary Editing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Art of the Cut

Sean Combs: The Reckoning

September 24, 2026

Today on Art of the Cut, the Emmy-winning editors for Best Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program: Sean Combs: The Reckoning, a four part doc-series from Netflix. Interviewed for the project were Charles Divak, ACE, Jeremy Siefer, ACE, Evan Wise, ACE, and Benjamin Kast, ACE. Unable to join in the call were editors Adam Goldstein, ACE, Jack Gravina, ACE, and Jonathan Miller. Charles Divak has been on Art of the Cut in the past for Chimp Crazy, for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won a...

DTF St. Louis

September 17, 2026

Today on Art of the Cut, the Emmy-winning editors for Best Picture Editing for a Limited Series: Kevin Ross, ACE and Max Koepke (KEP-key) and their HBO series, DTF St. Louis.Kevin has been on Art of the Cut in the past for his work on Stranger Things for which he was an Emmy and ACE Eddie nominee. His other work includes Yellowjackets and Halt and Catch Fire, among others.Max has also been on Art of the Cut before for his work on Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty and Chad Powers, a...

Coyote v Acme

September 10, 2026

Today on Art of the Cut, Carsten KoorPANek discusses the editing of a film that is very unusual: Coyote versus Acme. Firstly, it’s a combination of live action and animation, and second, the studio decided not to release it after it was already completed. Only years later did another company swoop in and buy the distribution rights and decide to release the film that had been languishing in a vault for almost three years. Kurpanek has edited numerous films, including Rambo: Last Blood, Escape...

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