Jacques Witta
Jacques Witta ( born April 22, 1934 in Paris ) is a French cutter.
Life
Jacques Witta grew up with two siblings in Paris. His single mother was during the 1930s occasionally work as a script girl from such directors as Jacques Prévert and Marcel Carné. Given their precarious financial situation they did not want her son also goes into the movie business. Jacques Witta, who was interested in his youth very much for drawing and painting, so trained as a bookbinder. Since then, however, his contacts with the publishing industry were missing and instead he knew many people in the film, he eventually rose but one in the movie business. Through a friend, he was working in the production of a U.S. series that was shot in Paris at the time. Then he was assistant editor of Orson Welles ' Mr. Arkadin ( 1955).
From the late 1950s Witta worked as an official editor at French film, however, came with the exception of Slogan ( 1969), until the mid-1970s for larger productions used. Directed by Gérard Pires Witta worked on the crime drama The Unbound (L' Agression, 1975) with Jean -Louis Trintignant and Catherine Deneuve in the lead roles, as well as the comedies ham with egg (Attention les yeux! , 1976) and computer murder quietly (L' Ordinateur the pompes funèbres, 1976). For director Claude Berri he was subsequently used for the section of the comedies The little Frenchwoman - The first time (La Première fois, 1976) and Every beginning is fun ( Un moment d' égarement, 1977) responsible. For Jean Becker's thriller A Deadly Summer (L' Été meurtrier, 1983) with Isabelle Adjani received Witta a César in the category Best Editing. Ten years later he was the French film award for Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue ( Trois couleurs: Bleu, 1993) win again. For Kieślowski he had previously been producing the cut of The Double Life of Veronique ( La Double vie de Véronique, 1991). Followed in 1994 with Three Colors: Red ( Trois couleurs: Rouge) another collaboration Wittas and Kieślowski. With Jean Becker Witta also worked together several times, including at a summer in the countryside (Les Enfants du Marais, 1999), Conversations With My Gardener ( Dialogue avec mon jardinier, 2007) and The Labyrinth of the words ( La Tête en friche, 2010 ).
Witta sometimes teaches aspiring editors and assistant editors, so in 2003 during a festival in Galway, Ireland.