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32 CINEMONTAGE / Q1 2019 co-wrote it with Tullock. Born in a small town of 4,000 residents that is located an hour south of Houston (where his mother was and still is the mayor), Kincannon recalls having an early fascination with video. He remembers, as a boy, begging his mother to buy him a Snappy, an early device that captured 320x240 video stills through an RCA port. Crude by today's standards, it was his first taste of image-making. Kincannon studied film and English at the University of Texas in Austin but took very few production classes. Instead, he chose a variety of classes on film history including Hollywood in the Thirties and Post-War Japanese Cinema, as well as screenwriting courses. After graduating, he stuck around for a while in Austin, which he liked but found it hard to make a career there right out of college. So when some friends of his went to New York to study sketch comedy and improv, he decided to join them. In New York, he became involved with the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Theatre, which hosts improv, sketch and stand-up and conducts comedy classes, where he learned the art and technique of long form improv. Soon, he began helping UCB members put their sketches to video and was later added to two UCB sketch video teams. Before long, Kincannon got an offer to work at College Humor, a website that features daily original humor videos and articles. While he enjoyed working in their New York offices, eventually the company decided to move to LA, and he moved with it. One of College Humor's properties, Adam Ruins Everything (2015-present), was picked up by truTV. When the pilot became a series, it marked Kincannon's transition from the web to television. That is also when he joined the Editors Guild. Eventually, Kincannon met actress/writer Rachel Bloom, which led to his editing several episodes of her show, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-present). "That was the hardest job I ever had, but I learned a lot from it," he concedes. Soon after, he got a call for another television project, Angie Tribeca (2016-present), a comedy created on TBS that "turned out to be the best job I ever had," he says. "I got to work at Universal Studios every day and felt like a king. It's a great show." One of his close friends from College Humor was writer and director Paul Briganti who directs for Saturday Night Live (1975-present). In 2017, Kincannon edited Briganti's first feature, Big Brother Volcano. One of the film's leads was George Basil, who introduced the editor to Utt. They became friends after Kincannon helped her with a short film project. In September, she called and asked him to be the editor of Before You Know It. However, he was also being asked to edit several new episodes of Adam Ruins Everything. "I had to turn down one," Kincannon relates. "Everything sounded good about the movie: Sundance was interested, it had Mandy Patinkin, Alec Baldwin, all this stuff…" His choice was obvious. According to Kincannon, he didn't understand how complex the character of Rachel (Utt) could be. "Because Hannah was the director/writer/star, she was actually doing different versions of the movie in different takes," he explains. "She was always giving herself options." The result was a process of discovery in the editing suite. "It was amazing to me," he says. Kincannon cut the film on Adobe Premiere. "I really like Premiere; it all works great," he says. "I'm just really proud of Before You Know It. And I am pumped to be part of it." f Before You Know It. Courtesy of Sundance Institute