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Linked under Editors, Picture, Post Production Consultants in Canada - Ontario.
- Picture Editor - Online Editor & Colourist - Post Supervisor -- Features, TV drama, Reality shows, Promo's and Music Videos

Credits: Soccer Dreams (FOX) (TV), Black Swan (Lions Gate) (FF), Prom Night In Mississippi (HBO) (DO).
Contact: [send email]  [view map]   Tel: 416-844-2994 / 905-607-4497
Address: 3443 longleaf Court, Mississauga, ON, Canada

David Ransley

Freelance - Picture Editor - Post-Supervisor - Online Editor & Colourist

Cell 416-844-2994        Res. 905-607-4497        dransley@gmail.com


He has worked on a wide variety of productions and his most recent project is “PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI” which is currently doing the festival circuit.

For Film and Television he has worked on a wide variety of productions -  reality series like “SOCCER DREAMS” for FOX, Feature films for Lion’s Gate, TV series & movies for CTV/CBC, Documentaries, Movie Trailers and award winning Music Videos.

In addition David has taught picture editing on Avid and Final Cut Studio and he created the Asst. Editors Course for the DGC.

Born in London, Ontario and raised in Waterloo he has been active behind and in front of the movie camera since the age of seventeen. His big break came first as a driver and then as an assistant editor on the Oscar winning film "Quest for Fire".

He has a BA from the University of Guelph, a Film Production Diploma from Conestoga College and is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada.

CREDITS (Selected)
  • "Prom Night In Mississippi" HBO (feature documentary)
(additional editing, post supervision, conform & colour correct)
Sunrise Films – Paul Saltzman – Producer/Director
Morgan Freeman offers to pay for his home town Graduation Prom but only if it’s integrated.
 
  • "Soccer Dreams" FOX (reality pilot & six episodes) + (online & colour correct for series)
Soccer Dreams Productions - Jalal Merhi - Executive Producer
Talented teenage soccer players compete for a single position in the Everton FC training academy.

"BirthDays" Cineflix Productions (contributed to several episodes at seasons end)
Birth Days is a series that celebrates one of life’s greatest adventures – the magic of becoming a parent.
 
  • "The Ciccio Show" Fearless Entertainment (Comedy pilot 1hr)
(edit, post supervision, conform & colour correct)
Victor Altomare & Sandra Hardman Executive Producers
A comedy featuring Ciccio who is a larger that life New York talk show host on late night Cable TV.
 
  • “Willard – the Hermit of Gully Lake” Peace Arch (feature documentary)
(edit, post supervision, conform & colour correct)
Peace Arch Entertainment - Director: Amy Goldberg
A true story about a hermit who survived sixty years alone in the Canadian Forest.
 
  • "Ronnie Hawkins at Barrymores” (concert special) (editor)
Real to Real Productions - Director: Anne Pick
A one-hour concert special recorded after his “miracle” recovery from cancer.
 
  • “Night of Terror” Lifetime Network (TV Movie)
(edit & post supervision)
Lifetime Network Director: William Tannen
Starring; Mitzi Kapture, Rick Roberts, Nick Mancuso
 
  • “Black Swan” Lions Gate  (feature film)
( co-edit & post supervision)
Lion’s Gate Films - Director: Wendy Ord
Starring; Melanie Doane, Michael Riley, Ted Dykstra, Matt Evans
 
  • RoboCop Prime Directives, TV Movie series  (editor, supervising editor & post supervision)
Fireworks Entertainment - Director: Julian Grant
Starring; Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint, Maria delMar, Geraint Davies, Leslie Hope
  • “Dark Justice“ (1x90)
  • “Meltdown“  (1x90)
  • “Resurrection“  (1x90)
  • “Crash and Burn“ (1x90)
  • "Resurrection in LA" HISTORY Television (documentary series)
Director: David Harel
Preacher Amiee Semple McPherson her 1926 kidnapping and the scandal that followed.
 
  • "The Strange Case of Bunny Weequod" CBC (TV drama pilot)
C.B.C. - Director: Steve Van Denzen
Starring; Lorne Cardinal, Vince Manitowabi, Kateri Walker
 
  • "Messages of Hope" GLOBAL Television (documentary) (co-editor)
Director: Allison Reed
Four woman and their experiences with breast cancer.
 

GUEST LECTURER / PANELIST

Final Cut Pro User Group, Basic Colour correction theory

Female Eye Film Festival Panel Member “Finishing Your Video & Film
Project”

Sheridan College Advanced Television & Film “Working with the
Director”

Sheridan College Media Arts “Creating a Film Neg. Cut List”
(three visits)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

VPM Magazine Motion Image “Moving Forward” written by Lee
Rickwood

Playback Magazine “Organic Nonlinear Editing” written by
David Ransley

VPM Magazine “I’ll Never Cut On Tape Again” written by
David Ransley

AWARDS / NOMINATIONS

“Star Seed” Much Music Nominated Best Editing

“Funk Mobile” Much Music Winner Best R&B /
Soul


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