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, including Death Race 2000 and the sequels More American Graffiti and '. In the '80s, she edited the It's a Good Life sequence in the ' as well as Joe Dante's Gremlins. Hirsch directed Munchies, one of the many low-budget movies that were imitative of 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 adjunct professor of editing at USC film school.
