Nate Orloff

Bio

Growing up in Seattle, WA, I started making crappy home videos with iMovie at an early age. After a few years those crappy videos began turning into amateur short films. One of those short films won a district-wide high school short film competition and since uploading it to YouTube in 2006, it has close to 2 Million views.

I chose to go to Chapman University for film school and began in 2005. I assistant edited on a student feature film and cut eight short films, ranging from 7 minute 16mm film exercises to relatively large-budget productions shot on 35mm film and RED cameras.

I learned about crafting the film in post, how any shot can have a million different meanings depending on the context you place it in. The long hours and hard work never bothered me because the art of cutting a film never felt like work.

I learned about workflows. Onlining a 35mm offline to a 2K DI and color grading in Lustre. I lived and breathed the RED workflow, online and coloring the raw 4K files myself after picture lock.

After graduation, I found good company at Joke Productions. I began as an assistant editor on Scream Queens Season 2 for VH1. After that series, I became the Lead Assistant Editor t Joke Productions and worked on three pilots for networks such as MTV, logo, and VH1.

I then worked as the 1st Assistant Editor for their feature documentary Dying to do Letterman, which is now touring festivals and winning multiple awards. After the doc, I was brought on to IFC's Commercial Kings and MTV's Caged as Lead Assistant Editor.

Starting this July, I begin work on a feature film called Americatown.