Bobbie O'Steen

Bobbie OSteen is a New York-based writer who has been immersed in the world of film editing all her life.She developed her passion for movies watching her father, film editor Richard Meyer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gods Little Acre). After earning a degree in anthropology at Stanford University, she worked with such luminaries as Ray Bradbury and Howard Fast, adapting their novels into screenplays. Shortly after, she joined the ranks of editors, receiving an Emmy nomination for the television movie Best Little Girl in the World. She continued to work in editing (Straight Time,Tess) and screenwriting (Clem & Peewee,The Dalton Girls). In 2002 she wrote Cut to the Chase, a critically acclaimed book based on interviews with her collaborator and husband of 23 years, legendary film editor Sam OSteen (The Graduate,Chinatown). In her new book, The Invisible Cut, Bobbie uses frame grabs of actual cuts from classic movie scenes (including Body Heat, Twelve Angry Men, Rear Window and The French Connection to get deep inside the mind of the film editor and explain how the mysterious art is actually done."