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"No Women": Film Editor Lynzee Klingman Details Challenges of Breaking Into Hollywood

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When Lynzee Klingman wanted to be an editor, she started looking for an apprenticeship in New York but couldn't get her foot in the door. "They would say, 'You can't carry a [film] can like a man, and we don't want to have to watch our language around you.

So no, no women.' The other one was, 'If we trained you, you would just get married and have a kid and leave.' " She finally landed a job, answering phones and cutting negatives. "I didn't know what I was doing.

I didn't go to film school," she says. "I learned by mistakes." Now, Klingman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hair) will join Sidney Wolinsky (The Shape of Water, The Sopranos) in receiving a career achievement award April 17 during the American Cinema Editors' virtual Eddie.

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