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Credit FPO. P H O T O : F P O Colleagues Remember Donn 34 C I N E M O N T A G E C A M B E R N "Donn Cambern was not only a film editor. He was a mentor to a long list of editors, a teacher of our craft and past president of our Guild who led us through many of the difficult changes connected with the switch to digital editing. He also was a governor of the Academy for the Editors Branch. More importantly, he was a caring and kind person who will be long remembered." — Alan Heim, ACE, MPEG President "It is no exaggeration to say that I became an editor because of Donn. At 13, I saw his name on the big screen in Casper, Wyoming, and I stayed until the next screening to find out what the man with two 'n's in his name did. 'Film Editor' it read. I asked my Mom what a film editor was and if it was something I could do with my life. She said yes. Fifteen years later I'd moved to Los Angeles and had the amazing fortune to be his assistant editor on 'Little Giants.' Telling him how my journey had started, he mentored me from Assistant to the Editor I am today. It all began with those two 'n's. Thank you Donn. Thank you for it all." — John Venzon, ACE Cambern, right, with John Cassavetes on "Tempest." Opposite page, far right: Cambern directing "Something Else" in 1970. Near right: Cambern at Musso & Frank in 2019. P H O T O S : C A M B E R N FA M I LY