A native of southern California, Howard Heard has had divergent interests in filmmaking, creative writing, and math and sciences. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in motion picture production and has been a film editor for more than thirty years, working on forty-six features, more than fifty hours of prime time episodic television, pilots, miniseries, four documentaries, and other short films and commercials. He co-edited the Emmy Award-winning episode of “St. Elsewhere” entitled, “Afterlife,” and the Eddie-Award-winning MOW, “Women of Valor” for CBS.
Currently he continues editing feature films and helps friends and students develop their own projects.
Field(s) of expertise:
Narrative film editing, primarily for features and prime-time television.
A native of southern California, Howard Heard has had divergent interests in filmmaking, creative writing, and math and sciences. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in motion picture production and has been a film editor for more than thirty years, working on forty-six features, more than fifty hours of prime time episodic television, pilots, miniseries, four documentaries, and other short films and commercials. He co-edited the Emmy Award-winning episode of "St. Elsewhere" entitled, "Afterlife," and the Eddie-Award-winning MOW, "Women of Valor" for CBS.
Currently he continues editing feature films and helps friends and students develop their own projects.