Derek McCants
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EDITOR, and AVID & APPLE CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR

Documentaries
Killing Machines. 1 hour documentary on smart weapons for PBS’s NOVA. Off- and On-line Editor. Produced by KCET/WGBH.
Departure of the Guernica. Documentary on the return of Picasso’s painting to Spain. N.Y. Museum of Modern Art. Off- and On-line Editor.
A Laugh and A Tear, 1 hour documentary on the history of Black comedians. Produced by SI Communications and Whoopi Goldberg. CEBA Award.
Beyond The Glory. 1 hour weekly series profiling sports figures. Fox Sports Net.
Death of a Beatle. 2 hour documentary on John Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman. Frozen Television for Court TV.
Witnesses To the Holocaust: The Trial of Adolph Eichmann. Off- and On-line Editor. 100 minute documentary narrated by Joel Grey, N.Y. Jewish Archive of Broadcasting for PBS.
NASCAR Drivers: 360. Weekly 1 hour series focusing on drivers’ lives away from the tracks. Flame Television and Mess Media for FX Networks.
Mega-Movers. Weekly 1 hour series relocates massive historical structures. 44 Blue Productions for the History Channel.
Profiles from the Front Line. 1 hour series. Focused on Special Forces members in Afghanistan. Warner Brothers/Jerry Bruckheimer TV for ABC-TV.
D.E.A. 1 hour series. An inside look at the work of Drug Enforcement Administration agents working in Newark. Al Roker Productions for Spike TV.
Extreme Loggers. Canadian lumbermen use helicopters to remove trees from remote forests. Pilgrim Films and Television for Discovery Channel.

Reality
Ultimate Car Build-Off. 1 hour multi-cam build competition between garages for National championship. A. Smith for Discovery.
Giuliana and Bill. ½ hour romantic comedy/docusoap. E! News anchor Giuliana and first Apprentice winner Bill wed and birthed a reality show.Style Network.
Launch My Line. 1 hour multi-cam series. 10 teams vie to launch their clothing line. Lake Paradise for Bravo.
Momma’s Boys. 1 hour multi-cam series. Dating competition in which Moms must approve of their sons choices. Glassman Media and Ryan Seacrest Productions for NBC.
Big Brother. 1 hour multi-cam series. Guests complete challenges in a studio-like house. Endemol for CBS.
The Moment of Truth. 1 hour multi-cam game show. Contestants are given a polygraph test and asked hard-hitting questions in front of a live audience. Lighthearted Entertainment for Fox.
Deal or No Deal. 1 hour multi-cam series. Contestants play the odds by choosing suitcases that may determine their winnings. Endemol for NBC.
America’s Next Top Model. 1 hour multi-cam series. Supermodel Tyra Banks mentors young women as they compete for a modeling contract. 10x10 for the CW Network.
Solitary 2.0. 1 hour multi-cam series or “social experiment”, which pushes contestants to their physical and psychological limit. Approved Entertainment for Fox Reality.
The Real Housewives of Orange County. Weekly 1 hour series offers a look into the lives of 5 women living in a gated community. Ventana Ventures for Bravo.
Starting Over. Daily 1 hour Daytime series follows an ever-changing group of six women re-inventing their lives while living together. Multi-cam. Emmy Award nominated for Outstanding Achievement in MultiCamera Editing. Bunim-Murray for NBC-TV.
Made in the USA. 1 hour multicam series. Inventors compete for a chance to sell their product. 10x10 for USA network.
Forever Eden. Formerly Paradise Hotel. 1 hour weekly series. Multi-cam. Produced by Mentorn for Fox.
Playing It Straight. A woman must choose a mate from 14 bachelors, not knowing some are gay. Multi-cam. Lion-TV for Fox.
Junkyard MegaWars. Season Finale of1 hour weekly series. Teams compete with constructions built from parts found in a junkyard. Multi-cam. RDF Media for The Learning Channel.
Switched!. 1/2 hour daily show follows teens as they trade lives. Edited primetime premiere and series. Evolution Film and Tape for ABC Family.
I’m a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here. 18 hours, adventure contest. Multi-cam, edited on location in Australia. Granada for ABC-TV.
Wickedly Perfect. 1 hour weekly series. Contestants compete to become a “Domestic Diva”. LMNO for CBS-TV.
LAPD, Life on the Beat. 1/2 hour daily show. David Bell Associates, MGM Syndicated.
The Fifth Wheel. 1/2-hour relationship show, from the creators of “Blind Date”. Multi-cam. Syndicated.

Magazine
The Crusaders. SENIOR EDITOR.1 hour, nationally syndicated weekly magazine. Disney produced and syndicated.
Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous, Runaways With The Rich And Famous, and Preview Pilot. 1/2 hour syndicated weeklies, TPE, syndicated.
Uncovered. 1/2 hour syndicated entertainment newsmagazine. MGM.
Evening Magazine. 1/2 hour daily magazine. Emmy.WOR-TV.
Wall Street Journal Report. Also DIRECTOR.1/2 hour weekly financial news show. Nationally syndicated, produced by Dow Jones.
A Current Affair. 1/2 hour daily newsmagazine. Fox Television.
Eurolife. SUPERVISING EDITOR.1 hour pilot. PAL post-production completed in Norway.

Narrative
General Hospital, series.,Port Charles. Edited 2 hour Primetime Pilot and series. ABC-TV produced Daytime Dramas.
The Passenger. Pilot episode for Internet distributed series. Directed by David van Eyssen. Stone Tiger Entertainment, Ltd.

Various
Staff Editor. NBC Network. Nightly News, Today Show, Sunrise, Mainstreet, Donahue, Saturday Night Live.
Staff Editor. National Video Center.
Staff Editor. Devlin Productions.
Trailer Editor. New Wave Productions.
Freelance Editor. Clients include GTE, AT&T, Warner Brothers, Entertainment Tonight, CBS, Toolbox, LMNO, ABC, Constantin TV (Germany), Rocket Science Laboratories, The WB Network, Brad Lachman Productions, NBC, Nash Productions, and EXTRA!.

ALSO:

INSTRUCTOR, UCLA, Maine Film and Television Workshops, AVID (AVID Certified Instructor), Montana Edit (DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES), Young Filmmakers/Video Arts, Weynand Training, International. Courses in television post-production techniques.
AVID ASSISTANT EDITOR, The Thin Red Line, Academy Award nominated feature produced by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Terence Malick.
POST-PRODUCTION CONSULTANT, The Story First – Behind the Unabomber” TV Movie, Peter Brennan Productions for Lifetime Television.
CONSULTANT, AVID Technologies. Managed accounts at Paramount, Disney, and Warner Brothers. Assisted in introducing AVID’s multicamera software to the Hollywood television community.
SUPERVISOR, VIDEO PRODUCTION, EIF-TV. Nationally syndicated and in-house programs.
PRODUCT SUPPORT, FREELANCE. Sony, Calaway, CMX, Panasonic, Ampex, AVID, others. Instruction, systems testing, demos, trade shows.
NIGHT TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR, Devlin Productions. Maintenance of technical standards, editing, standards conversions, and scheduling of all unsupervised work.
STUDIO MANAGER, Videofashion, a company that produced fashion programming and Videofashion Monthly, now a weekly series on E!
PROFESSIONAL INTERN, Institute of New Cinema Artists in conjunction with National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
DIRECTOR, Newport Players Guild. Performances at Newport Casino Theatre, Newport, R.I.

PUBLICATIONS

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, “NONLINEAR, A Field Guide to Digital Video and Film Editing” Third Edition). Triad Publishing Company.
EDITOR, “The AVID Handbook”, Weynand Training, International.

AFFILIATIONS

Motion Picture Editors Guild, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Film Independent, International Documentary Association.

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DVD’s AND REFERENCES UPON REQUEST