Tina Hirsch


Tina Hirsch —also known as Bettina Kugel Hirsch, Bettina Hirsch, and Bettina Kugel—is an American film editor and an adjunct professor of editing at the University of Southern California.
Tina Hirsch began to edit films in the late 1960s, serving as an assistant editor on Woodstock and Hi, Mom!. She edited several films for New World Pictures including Death Race 2000 and Eat My Dust!. She advanced to editing major studio films, including the sequels More American Graffiti and Airplane II: The Sequel. In the '80s, she was a regular editor for New World Pictures alumnus Joe Dante's films, including the "It's a Good Life" sequence in Twilight Zone: The Movie as well as Gremlins and Explorers. Hirsch would later direct Munchies for New World's founder Roger Corman, one of the many low-budget movies that were imitative of Dante's Gremlins.
Hirsch edited episodes of the television series The West Wing, for which she was nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series" and for which she also won an Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors. In 2005, she was nominated for a second Emmy for editing the television miniseries Back When We Were Grownups.
She has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, and she was the first female president of the honorary society. Hirsch currently serves on the board of ACE, and has done so for more than two decades.
Since 2003, Hirsch has spent her time working as an adjunct professor of editing at USC film school.

Selected filmography

YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
1970Hi, Mom!Brian De PalmaAssistant editorSecond collaboration with Brian De Palma
1980XanaduRobert GreenwaldCo-editor
1988Caddyshack IIAllan ArkushAdditional film editorSecond collaboration with Allan Arkush
1992Honey, I Blew Up the KidRandal KleiserAdditional film editor

YearFilmDirectorRoleNotes
1968GreetingsBrian De PalmaTinaFirst collaboration with Brian De Palma
1970Hi, Mom!Brian De PalmaN.I.T. Journal

YearFilmDirectorRole
1969Utterly Without Redeeming Social ValueCharles HirschScript girl
1975Switchblade SistersJack HillScript supervisor

;Documentaries
YearFilmDirector
2013Four Decades LaterHerself
2021Emily @ the Edge of ChaosWendy Apple

YearFilmDirectorRole
1970WoodstockMichael WadleighAssistant editor

YearFilmDirectorCredit
2013Four Decades LaterHerselfProducer

;Shorts
YearFilmDirector
2009RedemptionBruce McAlester

YearFilmDirectorRole
2014happySADhappyRachel FeldmanConsulting editor

YearFilmDirectorRole
2014Light of the NightDanny RamirezFaculty advisor

YearFilmDirectorRole
1991Snowie and the Seven DorpsThanks
2013SyntheticMatt ZunichSpecial thanks

;TV movies
YearFilmDirector
1978Just Me and YouJohn Erman
1995OP CenterLewis Teague
1995Saved by the LightLewis Teague
1998Labor of LoveKaren Arthur
1998A Will of Their OwnKaren Arthur
1999Behind the MaskTom McLoughlin
2003Stealing SinatraRon Underwood
2003The OneRon Lagomarsino
2004PlainsongRichard Pearce
2004Back When We Were GrownupsRon Underwood
2006In from the NightPeter Levin
2006The Year Without a Santa ClausRon Underwood
2006The Valley of LightBrent Shields

;TV series
YearTitleNotes
1994Party of Five1 episode
1995OP Center2 episodes
1998A Will of Their Own2 episodes
1999−2001The West Wing16 episodes