In this conversation with Emmy Award-winning editor, Charles Little II, ACE, we talk about his journey into editing for film and television, how the industry has changed since last year's industry strikes as well as the power of persistence.
Hailing from Chicago's South Side, raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Charles' earliest indication of what was to later come by way of a successful career in film & TV was his interest in artistic expression and computer graphic design. After moving to LA to become a music video director, he happened to attend Invisible Art/Visible Artists (IAVA), an industry event sponsored by ACE. It was the conversation between this panel of Oscar-nominated editors that inspired his career change and he began working in the documentary and docuseries space for over a decade.
His first big break came by way of World of Wonder where his persistence and unrelenting grind and hard work led to more and more opportunities, including cutting a reality program for Showtime and later, his credentials would expand to include series like RuPaul's Drag Race and Million Dollar Listing.
We discuss how creativity blossoms from limitations and the unwavering value of telling a good story.
Charles won an Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program Emmy for Welcome to Wrexham. His other credits include 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, God Said Give 'Em Drum Machines, Dr. Pimple Popper, Last Comic Standing, True Life, Big Freedia Bounces Back and Life with La Toya.