Reel workshop: build a 60-second cut that gets you hired

Your reel gets about 15 seconds before someone decides. We're building tight 60-second cuts and cutting each other's ruthlessly. Actors, editors, filmmakers, photographers.

FIRST TIME? This is a small, friendly group that meets twice a month on Saturday afternoons at Schuler Books on 28th Street, in the Chapbook Cafe. Free, no cover.

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON

What goes in the first five seconds and what has to go entirely. Ordering clips by strength instead of chronology. Cutting your own work when you're attached to it. Different reels for different asks - an editing reel, an acting reel and a directing reel are not the same thing. Length, format, and where to host it.

WHAT TO BRING

Whatever footage you have, however rough, on a laptop. An existing reel if you've got one - we'll take it apart. Headphones.

No footage yet? Come and cut someone else's. It's the fastest way to learn what works.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Actors who need something to send, editors building a portfolio, filmmakers wi