How Creative Teams Turn Vision into Award-Winning Films

Billy Fox

Film Editor

ACE

Award-winning editor Billy Fox has lent his editing talents to more than 30 feature films, television dramas, and mini-series. His most recent work reunites Fox with long time collaborator Craig Brewer. Song Sung Blue is the story of ‘Lightning & Thunder”, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together. Staring Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman His previous projects include Devotion (Black Label Media/Columbia/Sony), tells the story of the first black U.S. Navy aviator in the Korean War. It is the second film Fox has cut for Black Label Media, previously editing Only the Brave for director Joseph Kosinski. Fox’s feature films also include Straight Outta Compton for Universal Studios, which was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, and five collaborations with director Craig Brewer, including the Academy Award-winning Hustle & Flow, Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name, and Paramount’s Black Snake Moan, Footloose, and Coming 2 America. Other feature credits include The Crazies, Traitor, Dark Places and Four Brothers for director John Singleton. Fox was editor and co-producer on the celebrated HBO mini-series Band of Brothers for Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, a project for which he won an Emmy and Golden Globe honors. His experience includes nine years as the editor and supervising producer of Law & Order, for which he received two Emmys and four nominations. His other television editing credits include F.B.I, Chicago Fire, Hostages, and Wings, as well as the cult favorite Pee-wee’s Playhouse. He is the recipient of 15 other major awards, including the Peabody Award, the BDA Award, an International Monitor Award, the Humanitas Award, and the P.G.A. Golden Laurel award.

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Shawn McDaniel

Senior Professional Video Evangelist & Community Advocate

Adobe

Shawn’s passion for filmmaking started early, making movies for his family, which inspired him to move to LA and pursue a career in the film industry. His journey began as a video editor for Buzzfeed, MGM, and Riot Games. He also worked as a trainer at Apple for five years before moving to Frame.io. There, he started in customer support, addressing workflow issues, and later joined the Frame.io marketing team. He created a series of training videos called "Tip of the Week" and "Short Cuts developed the virtual event program Frame.io Live. Now at Adobe, Shawn serves as a Video Evangelist, focusing on content creation to engage and inspire the creative community.

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Morgan Prygrocki

Senior Strategic Development Manager

Adobe

Morgan Prygrocki is a Sr. Strategic Development Manager at Adobe supporting Hollywood post-production video workflows. She has spent the bulk of her career working in high-end camera technology & virtual production solutions, and has been supporting productions ranging from major league sports broadcasts to award-winning films & and commercial productions over the last 15+ years.

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Karl Soule

Senior Technical Sales Manager, Film and Video

Adobe

Karl Soule works for Adobe in Los Angeles, focused on Film and Television workflows, and has supported editorial teams on films such as Terminator: Dark Fate, Only the Brave, and more. As an Adobe employee for over 15 years, Karl has presented and evangelized for the video and audio tools for over 15 years on 6 continents.

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