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31 Q1 2017 / CINEMONTAGE editor time after time," she says. "I jumped around a lot. At the time, I was disappointed that I hadn't taken the same path as some of those other assistants, but, in retrospect, I'm glad I had the chance to work with so many editors. I was exposed to many different styles of editing and got a very good idea of what could be done in the cutting room." Then Wong met the editor she calls her "true mentor," Mark Helfrich, ACE. "He ushered me in to editing," she attests. "He hired me as an assistant; I'd been one for so long, I could do it with my hands tied behind my back." Working together on director Brett Ratner's After the Sunset (2004), Wong says she got the chance to practice editing a lot of scenes. "Mark took notice and kept