Episode 19 – Tomas Vengris - a podcast by Phi Phenonenon

While most film directors tend to be professionally recruited from writers or directors of photography, an argument can be made that editors understand the rhythms of a working movie better than anyone else. On today’s episode we talk to editor (and now writer/direct) Tomas Vengris about his Lithuanian parents making sure he had an education in the arts while also believing film to be more “entertainment,” how he came into film more via the love of filmmaking and Micro Machines, why his parents became briefly hostile when he went into an arts career, his editing in post-productions for directors like Lena Dunham or Kelly Reichardt or Terrence Malick or Macon Blair, how he became exposed to the perfect model to make a cheap indie-film, and why he’ll still edit films for certain directors no matter what success he has as a director. Vengris’s first feature as writer/director, Motherland, is currently playing the festival circuit. (Interview begins at 7:13.)

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