Kyra Uniejewski (Film Editor)
E-mailTelephone: 570-350-5620
Filmography
- "In the Dark" (Short) (Camera Operator)
- "The Scholarship Entry" (Director) (Writer) (Editor)
- "In Search of Shaun Taylor" (Editor) (Actor)
- "1st Pocono Teen Art Festival" (Editor) (Director) (Camera Operator)
- "Glass Blowing 2008" (Editor) (Camera Operator)
- "Drag Short" (Editor) (Camera Operator)
- "Just Another Day" (Writer) (Director) (Editor)
- "Risk for Truth" ( Writer) (Director) (Editor)
- "New York Minute" (Camera Operator)
- "Behind White Walls" (Writer) (Director) (Editor)
- "The Road Home" (Editing Supervisor)
- "Never Too late" (Director of Photography, Editor)
- "The Fields" (Production Assistant)
Blogs
Kyra Uniejewski started when she met the Hollow Tree Films family in High school when she helped along with “In the Dark”. As time passed and “The Road Home” was in production she was called upon as editing supervisor. Which leads us to her current position as the editor herself.
Kyra graduated from Pleasant Valley in 2009 and is now a freshman at the School of Visual Arts in NYC majoring in film/video and a concentration of editing.
As of recently, Kyra is the director of photography and lead editor in Hollow Tree Films newest feature length film, "Never Too Late."
Q. Talk about how intense editing is and how you approach such a difficult task.
A. As lead editor I am given the responsibility to make the director happy, make sense of hours and hours of footage, and put it all together in a fluid manner, then afterward color correcting and sound editing. It is very “intense” like camping!, the best way for me to create a successful product is by first putting the clips in sequential order and putting scenes together one by one. In this process I have to be sure that when one clip finishes and is cut to the next everything looks and sounds the same. It might sound simple but when the actor is taking a sip of a drink, then the next shot the actor doesn't have a cup anymore it makes it awkward. It is my job to watch all the takes and cut each take up and use all of them to make one moment in time so that everything flows naturally. Overall it is a very rewarding feeling when i can watch a scene and know I put that together and it is flawless!
Q. You have an internship with E! this summer. What do you expect?
A. I am ecstatic about my internship with E! Entertainment this summer. Its bittersweet since I wont be able to be on the set of “Never Too Late” and do my part as DP, but its an experience that I cannot pass up. I was told I am going to have a lot of hands on work which is exciting, though I am nervous because this is TV. Television and film are two very different worlds, I am hoping I learn a lot and can use everything and incorporate it in all future productions.
Q. Quick! If you had to re-edit any film ever, would what it be?
A. If I could re edit any movie ever it would have to be Braveheart. I am sure there are worse edited movies, but the first time I watched it I was disappointed. I have an editors eye, so yes I do catch bad cuts easily but this was another story. I was told its wonderful reputation, and I was watching the film expecting great things and it is a film I will never watch again. Not only were there MANY bad cuts, but there were lines in the film that as an editor I would have taken out, or chosen another take where the actors delivered them differently. There are a couple more films on my mind, Valentines Day for example, but I was only asked
for one. :D
