Iván Aledo, a master in film editing, dies

A pioneer in non-linear editing, Aledo was nominated seven times for the Goya Awards, winning two statuettes for best editing for 'The Lovers of the Polar Circle' and 'The Great Adventure of Mortadelo and Filemón'.

Ivan Aledo (Cartagena, 1951) died this weekend in Madrid at the age of 68. Pioneer in film editing with non-linear editing of Avid, during his career he gave rise to numerous jobs in film, advertising and television, working hand in hand with directors such as Luis García Berlanga, Julio Medem, Daniel Monzón and Javier Fesser.

Nominated seven times for the Goya Awards, I had two statuettes for the best assembly for Lovers of the Polar Circle y The great adventure of Mortadelo and Filemón.

Throughout his more than thirty years of professional career, Aledo developed his work mainly in fiction, but without ever leaving his special relationship, from the beginning, with the documentary genre and exploring other formats closer to video art, through his collaboration with the plastic artist Santiago Sierra. He was still active today, his last work as an editor being the film A window to the sea and the series Temperance.

Member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain Since 1994, he was part of its Board of Directors as a member in the Assembly specialty. Since 2008 he combined his work as an editor with teaching as a professor of film editing, mainly in CHESS y THIS.

The president of the Film Academy, Mariano Barroso, ha recordado la figura de este gran montador asegurando que “Iván era un artista sensible, un hombre entrañable, muy querido por todos nosotros, inteligente, generoso, irónico. Creador y colaborador infatigable, impulsor de muchos de los mejores proyectos de la Academia. Ayer mismo intercambiamos mensajes, y me mandó uno que ahora entiendo como una despedida: ‘Me he pasado la vida persiguiendo el gusto por la belleza. Y espero seguir haciéndolo. Un abrazo a todos’. Seguirás entre nosotros, Iván, continuaremos tu búsqueda. Gracias por todos los momentos compartidos”.