Jim Steele

James Patrick Steele started his career in the Air Force Signal Corps, then transferred to the Armed Forces Photographic unit, where he was resposible for motion picture efforts in several military campaigns. He gravitated toward feature film editing, and after his discharge, he apprenticed to several top Hollywood studio editors, eventually becoming 1st assistant on such works as TOP RIFLE and THE DEATH CHAMBER CHRONICLES. Jim prefers editing in the traditional way, on 35mm film with splices, so that the ongoing project can be screened in theaters for evaluation. Despite his traditonal background, Jim's imagination and daring led him to experiment with the most basic tenents of traditional film narrative resulting in the multi-take, multi-layered editing style seen throughout FILM SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL.