Editing
Ronald Sanders
Rural Manitoba, Canada
Ronald Sanders (also credited as Ron Sanders) is a Canadian film editor and television producer best known for his long collaboration with director David Cronenberg, editing most of Cronenberg’s films since 1979 (including Videodrome). He is a University of Manitoba alumnus (BA, 1967) and is credited for editing major films such as A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, Coraline, and A Dangerous Method. Sanders won multiple Genie Awards for film editing, including for Dead Ringers, Crash, eXistenZ, and Eastern Promises.
Acting credits
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.
Citizens of Cosmopolis
2012
8.0Feature length documentary on the making of David Cronenberg's The Fly.
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
2005
Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
2004
A discussion on the politics behind the 1983 David Cronenberg thriller, The Dead Zone.
The Politics of the Dead Zone
2006
8.5A day in a life tour diary with David Cronenberg, as he brings his film "A History of Violence" to the Cannes Film Festival (2005) for its first public screening.
Too Commercial for Cannes
2006