Motion Picture Editors Guild
John Refoua is an experienced film editor with a career spanning several decades. Currently freelancing since April 2007, Refoua is involved in a theatrical feature set for a Christmas 2009 release due to extensive visual effects. Refoua's experience includes a long-term role at 20th Century Fox since 2001 and memberships in the Motion Picture Editors Guild since 1988. Additional editing roles have been held at Lightstorm Entertainment from 2007 to 2010, Hilarious Productions from 2004 to 2006, and CSI: Miami from 2002 to 2005. Earlier positions include freelance editing from 1993 to 2005, work at Earthship Productions in 2003, and film editing for Universal Television and NBC Universal during the 1990s. John Refoua graduated from Oberlin College between 1976 and 1980.
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Motion Picture Editors Guild
MPEG negotiates new collective bargaining agreements (union contracts) and enforces existing agreements with employers involved in post-production. We provide assistance for securing better conditions, including but not limited to financial (better pay), medical (better health insurance), safety (turnaround time) and artistic concerns (assignment of credit). As Local 700 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), an international union over 100 years old, we are allied with some 375 affiliated locals in the United States and Canada. This strength increases our collective power at the bargaining table and results in better contracts with superior benefits. When you join the Motion Picture Editors Guild, you are also becoming a part of a larger entity, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Pictures Technicians and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE). You are joining an organization that is over 140,000 members strong! The primary job of the IATSE (www.iatse-intl.org) is to negotiate the contracts under which we all work and to protect our safety and well-being from employer exploitation. The Union also provides a means of receiving pensions and continuous healthcare, despite working for a variety of employers. This is a rarity in a freelance industry such as ours, and we are fortunate to have well-funded pension and health plans which have among the best benefits to be found anywhere in the country. While corporation health and pension plans are rapidly disappearing, the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans and the IATSE National Benefit Funds remain solvent and strong due to the diligent commitment of the IATSE and its Locals.