This post was written by Michelle Gallina and originally appeared on the Adobe blog on April 18, 2025.We sat down with the editor of the film, María Gabriela Torres, to learn more about how she cut the film. For the introductory sequence, Torres focused on building it from both a visual and musical perspective. Using Adobe Premiere Pro and Frame.io, she wove each of the band members’ origin stories together.Check out the full conversation with Torres below and catch the movie out on March 14 on digital or cable on-demand.How and where did you first learn to edit?Back in 2016, I was living in Colombia and working as a TV producer at a news channel when I decided I wanted to switch careers and make documentaries. I decided to move to NYC for a one-year graduate program focused on documentary editing at The New School. The final goal of the program was for students to have made a full documentary short, from development through to editing. I had done some basic editing in school, but this program was definitely where I learned to edit.How do you begin a project/set up your workspace?I try to be very mindful of all of the different types of media that will be used to make the film, from still pictures to music to archival footage, even if initially one of those wasn’t even in the director’s mind as a possible medium. After I have a list of all of the media we will potentially...
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