From Editing to Making Amazon Prime Directorial Debut with 'Unstoppable' director William Goldenberg

Jan 14, 2025

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Renowned editor William Goldenberg (Argo, Transformers, Air, Zero Dark Thirty, The Imitation Game) joins us talk making his directorial debut, the Jennifer Lopez starring Unstoppable!

William chats with Dom Lenoir about working with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, creating long term relationships in the film industry.

Editing and working with Michael Mann on Heat.

Talks the process of cutting, mood and tone of his film.

Directing ad working with Jennifer Lopez.

and making a real life true story sports movie Unstoppable.

Dom then chats with fellow filmmaker Giles Alderson about the editor director relationship, what it means to them and how editing helped them become better filmmakers.

Plus our film term of the week!

Unstoppable stars Jharrel Jerome as championship wrestler Anthony Robles, the film’s cast includes Jennifer Lopez, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Don Cheadle and Anthony Robles himself, and is directed by William Goldenberg in his directorial debut.

Unstoppable is RELEASED on Friday 16th Jan on Amazon Prime.

WORLD PREMIERE of Food For Thought – Giles’ documentary. Tickets for 24th Jan in London here https://tinyurl.com/3ssnpj94

WATCH OUT YOUTUBE CHANNEL our interview with Skeleton Crew showrunners Jon Watts and Christopher Ford here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHKr20viJYM&t=33s

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PATREON

Big thank you to:

Serena Gardner

Mark Hammett

Lee Hutchings