An Interview with Joey De La Rosa: Assistant Editor for T.V.
Meet Joey De La Rosa
Joey De La Rosa is a 26 year old Assistant Editor from Aurora, CO currently living in New York City. Joey developed a love of film growing up with fond memories of watching the Oscars with his mom and creating amateur short films with his friends. After high school, Joey attended the University of Colorado Boulder balancing his full time studies with work at the Law School doing IT. In 2018, he graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts and Film Studies. It wasn’t until after graduation interning at a production company where he was introduced to the career work of editors and assistant editors. When his 9 week internship program ended, he was determined to continue working at the production company whether he was paid or unpaid. Simultaneously to his work at the production company, Joey was also working at a local news station as a floor director/camera operator/teleprompter operator. Eventually, after months of working overtime, he not only was offered the position of Assistant Editor at Dorsey Pictures but also the position of Editor at FOX31 Denver. It was then he decided to take the more creative route that aligned with his Fine Arts and Film Studies Degree by taking the offer of Assistant Editor. He worked as an AE for Dorsey Pictures between 2017 and 2018. Then, in the late summer of 2018, Joey moved to NYC and began working for LeftRight Production as an Assistant Editor for television shows airing on Showtime, The Food Network, Epix, and A&E.
What shows can I watch that Joey has worked on?
A&E
DIY
SHOWTIME
TRAVEL CHANNEL
HGTV
Joey has also worked on Beast Rangers (Outdoor Channel)
Sunday In The City with Joey De La Rosa
The Interview
I meet Joey at a table outside of a corner diner in Greenwich Village over a brunch of eggs Benedict, black coffee and the real, good kind of conversation one can only find between two artists. When we finish the last bites of our eggs benny, we take a slow walk back to his fourth floor walkup apartment. It’s midday on a Saturday and while he lives only a few avenues over from a bustling farmers market, the neighborhood is quiet and sleepy apart from irreverent sounds of yellow cabs honking every so often. It’s easy to forget that this is the first time I’m meeting Joey. His kind and courteous demeanor lends to the feeling of knowing him longer than just the day. The stairs are steep to his apartment and he makes a joke about refusing to scale them if ever coming home from late night out. With slighted breath, I wait in the narrow corridor until he unlocks his front door and invites me in. We sit at the smallish dining room table that shares its space with the living room and Joeys office. As I set up my equipment to record our interview, he mixes us gin and tonics ironically and unironically determined by the fact that its only just past 1pm. Ice clinks in a glass pool of heavy handed tonic and the little blinking light signals we’re recording now.
This is a summation of my interview with Joey. The interview in its entirety can be found on Apple Podcast or Spotify under Episode 16: Joey De La Rosa: Assistant Editor For TV
link to Spotify here
N: Did you always want to be an assistant editor?
JOEY: So, I didn’t even know what an assistant editor was until I interned for a production company when I graduated from college - I went to the university of Colorado Boulder. I’m from Colorado and my school didn’t really do a good job of teaching you what other positions in film there are and or television. It was just, kind of like, “I want to be an editor” or “I wanna be a director” That’s all it really was. No one would tell you there’s a ton of other jobs when it comes to the production of a television show or a movie. So when I, like, got the internship at the production company it was like, woah there’s people whose job it is to literally export files and send them to the network; there’s people who just package the equipment and send it out to the field like that’s it; there’s people who have to do very specific jobs. That’s when I learned like, oh there’s an assistant editor - there’s people who are assistants to the editor. When I was an intern- that’s when I graduated from school so a lot of the people who were there were already in school like this was their summer thing and then they were going to go back to school.
Intro and Outro Music composed by: Carl Swenson
Sound Mixing: Carl Swenson
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