The 90 to 5 editing competition has a simple premise: cut down a feature film into a 5 minute short. I got enough satisfaction from merely submitting an entry, so to actually win it was something else! Out of the near thousand of editors who took part, my cut of Night of the Living Dead under the alias Moe Pong took 1st place for 2012 - the competition's first year. The competition was as challenging as it was fun, pushing your storytelling ability's to their limits. Retaining the essence of a story while only using 5% of it's length at times seemed an impossible feat to achieve without compromising your own standards, but what you learn about narrative from it is invaluable. I chose Night of the Living Dead for the 2 reasons. Firstly, each film chosen had to come from the public domain list and this was one of only 3 on there than i had seen (and the one held the most affection for). Secondly, it was a film that was more or less set in the same location without any dramatic shifts in time. It seemed far more achievable to edit from this kind of infrastructure with coherency than it would be to tackle an epic like Goodfellas. The 90 to 5 organiser's are hoping to gain rights to choose movies that are off the public domain list in the coming years. If this happens, I would enter again a heartbeat.