MAKE IT LOOK REEL - is an official contender for the 2026 AACTA Awards in the Feature Documentary category.

If you’re an AACTA member, voting is open until tonight (September 29). Your vote can help us take this important story even further.

(Dir: Kate Blackmore)

Wrote about the new Productivity Commission interim report – which suggests using copyrighted creative works to train AI models. The screen industry has responded, calling this proposed reform a retroactive 'theft' (rightfully IMHO). www.screenhub.com.au/news/news/cr...

🎬 Melbourne friends! After 3 sold out screenings at Sydney Film Festival, Kate Blackmore’s documentary MAKE IT LOOK REAL hits Cinema Nova starting tomorrow!
Limited season: June 19–29
🎟️ Tickets on sale @cinemanova.bsky.social
www.cinemanova.com.au/films/make-i...

What a beautiful premiere of MAKE IT LOOK REAL at @sydfilmfest.bsky.social last night. It was such an honour be the Editor and an EP on this extraordinary film and to finally share it in our hometown of Sydney with the best cast, crew, family and friends.

Huge congrats to the whole team!

Kate Blackmore’s MAKE IT LOOK REAL announced to screen at Sydney Film Festival 2025. So wonderful we will be able to share the film in our home city & on the land it made 😎

MAKE IT LOOK REAL - International premiere
@sxsw.com last Saturday night! 2 sold out theatres & the audience responded beautifully.

Acknowledging all the cast and crew who are at the heart of this film, that weren’t able to attend.
#makeitlookrealdocumentary #filmeditor #EP

10 Days until the #MakeItLookReal International Premiere @sxsw.com (Documentary Spotlight). Can't wait to be there in Austin with my fellow crew members! Come and join us for the screenings on 8 + 11 + 13 March schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2... #SXSW2025 #Editor

Documentaries have no limits to what they can explore, and the #SXSW Documentary Spotlight features are no exception. This year’s premieres include…

#AreWeGood
#MakeItLookReal
#SeenAndHeard
#UvaldeMom

See more Documentary Spotlight features premiering at #SXSW2025. ow.ly/LiNw50V1BzK

Last night I was honoured to present Best Australian Short Award with fellow Shorts Jury member Rowena Potts @ Antenna Documentary Film Festival.

Hey folks - Elliott is the editor of some of the best Aussie films and TV around. Chuck him a follow below.

And, when you can, watch It All Started with a Stale Sandwich.

MAKE IT LOOK REAL-International Premiere #SXSW 2025 Documentary Spotlight in March!
Writer/Director: Kate Blackmore
Producers: Bethany Bruce, Daniel Joyce
Prod Co's: Staple Fiction, Projector Films, in assoc w/Broadtalk Prods
Editor/EP: Elliott Magen
Cast/Crew: schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2...

As Sundance 2025 kicks off, today marks 12 years since Lynette Wallworths CORAL: REKINDLING VENUS screening at Sundance 2013 - the first film I ever edited. An extraordinary project to have worked on and an incredible festival to attend!

CORAL: REKINDLING VENUS trailer: vimeo.com/40697685

First post on new platform … why not just plug my website 😎
www.elliottmagen.com - Film Editor